Homemade Pizza Dough Recipes

You will see with these homemade pizza dough recipes, making fresh pizza at home can be delicious and easier than you think.

You can substitute white flour for wheat flour or half and half in these recipes. The important thing to remember is to start your pizza dough 1 -1 & 1/2 hour before you are ready to eat. Letting your dough sit for 1 hour will result in a much more airy and delicious crust.

Homemade Pizza Dough Recipes

2 ½ Cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 Cup warm water
1 Tablespoon yeast
1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning or to taste, optional
1 Tablespoon oil
In 1 cup warm water add yeast and a pinch of sugar. Set aside. In your mixing bowl add flour, salt, seasoning and oil. Blend together and pour in water mixture. Blend until dough forms a ball. Knead several minutes. Cover and let rise for 1 hour. *Your homemade pizza dough will turn out much better if you allow at least an hour.
Spread dough onto a pizza pan and top with sauce, mozzarella cheese and your favorite toppings. Bake at 425 degrees for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.

Pizza Topping Ideas:
Spaghetti sauce
Mozzarella cheese, shredded
Pepperoni slices
Ham slices or Canadian bacon
Pineapple chunks
Pepper slices
Sliced mushrooms
Sliced olives
Chopped fresh broccoli

Double your batch of pizza dough and freeze for another day. You can freeze the dough before rising just add to a ziploc bag and place in the freezer. Unthaw the night before by placing in the fridge.

Another option for freezing pizza dough is to let the dough rise and then spread onto pizza pan. Flash freeze. Wrap pizza crust in saran wrap and tin foil. Freeze until ready to use.

Deep Dish Pizza Crust Recipe

3 Cups flour
2 Tablespoons oil
2 eggs
1 Cup warm water
1 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon yeast
pinch of sugar

In a measuring cup add warm water, yeast and pinch of sugar. Set aside. In a mixing bowl add flour, salt, oil and eggs. Blend together. Pour water mixture in your dough and allow to mix several minutes. Take out and knead several minutes. Let set for 1 hour.

Pat dough in 2- 8 or 9 inch circle pans and press up the edges. Add your sauce, cheese and pizza toppings. Bake at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes until golden brown.


Top your pizza with a great tomato sauce like this one.

White Pizza Recipe

pizza dough
1 Cup cottage cheese
1/4 Cup Parmesan cheese
1 Cup mozzarella cheese
Garlic salt
Italian seasoning
Pizza toppings such as sliced tomatoes, chopped basil, chopped spinach, chopped parsley, sliced onions, sliced peppers
Lay your pizza crust on your pizza pan. Spread three cheeses over crust. Sprinkle with garlic salt, Italian seasoning or any other seasonings you'd like. Add your toppings. Bake at 425 degrees for 20-25 minutes until pizza is golden brown.

What Else Can you Make with Pizza Dough

Not only are the types of pizza you can make endless, you can do a lot of different things with a homemade pizza dough recipe.

• Family size pizza
• Individual pizzas-great for letting kids make their own
• Calzones-Roll a small circle fill with your favorite toppings but leave out the sauce. Fold edge over to make a half moon shape. Seal edges and bake.
• Stromboli -Make stromboli with your pizza dough.
  
• Pizza bites-Roll out your pizza dough with a rolling pin. Cut out small squares top with slice of pepperoni and a chunk of mozzarella cheese. Roll up sealing edges. Brush with oil and bake. 

Quick Pizza Crust Ideas

What is your favorite homemade pizza dough recipes or pizza toppings?

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