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Pizza From Scratch Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Make the dough:
  • In Mixer bowl or a large bowl combine Flour, Wheat Gluten and salt.
  • Mix yeast, sugar and oil in water between 105-115 degrees and let sit 1 minute.
  • Combine yeast/water and flour in bowl and mix until throughly combined.
  • Knead on Low setting on Mixer for 5 minutes or by hand 10 minutes making sure that the dough ball is neither too sticky or too dry.
  • Place dough ball in a 1 gallon ziploc bag with a teaspoon of olive oil.
  • With the bag opened and folded over underneath, place in warm area with a towel on top for an hour.
  • Deflate dough ball in bag and place in refrigerator the same way as before, without the towel, until your are ready to make the pizza. The dough will rise to more than twice its size.
  • Pizza time:
  • On countertop, sprinkle a little flour to make the surface ready to stretch the dough.
  • Deflate the dough ball and stretch until its fits a greased and floured 12 inch Pizza Pan.
  • Using a ladle or spoon, Spread sauce over pizza until covered within a inch of the pizza crust.
  • Spread the cheese evenly and then sprinkle Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning over top.
  • Put as many toppings as you want and put in a preheated oven at 500 degrees.
  • Watch the pie and after 5-6 minutes transfer the Pie with a peel to Pizza Stone to finish cooking. If you don't have a Pizza stone go buy one but until you do make sure that your pizza doesn't burn.
  • It should be ready in 15 minutes or so.

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  • krumkake 15 years ago
    I keep wanting to try to learn to make my own pizza dough, but I've been lazy - this recipe sounds like a good place to start...thanks for the share - I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl...Krum
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