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pizza dough recipe
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Easy Pizza Dough Recipe

This is a quick and easy pizza dough recipe, that uses plain flour.
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Servings: 4 Medium
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 300 ml Water Lukewarm
  • 7 g Yeast
  • ½ teaspoon Caster sugar
  • 500 g Plain Flour Use a strong bread or 00 flour if available (see notes above)
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 2 tablespoon Olive Oil

Method
 

  1. Mix the lukewarm water, yeast and sugar together. Mix well and leave for about 10 minutes, until it has a foam layer on top.
  2. In a separate bowl sift the flour and add the salt.
  3. Create a well in the centre of the flour and slowly pour in the yeast mixture.
  4. Add the oil to the mixture.
  5. Using your hands to make circles slowly draw the flour into the yeast mix, until all is combined. Depending on your flour you may need to add an extra tablespoon of water or flour at this point to make the dough the right consistancy.
  6. Form a ball with the dough and place on a well floured surface. Knead the dough for 10 minutes until smooth. Take some time here to do this well, for a great end result!
  7. Place the dough in a well oiled bowl, light oil the top of the dough and cover with plastic wrap.
  8. Leave in a warm place, until the dough has doubled in size.
  9. Remove the dough from the bowl and knock the air out with your fist. Split into 4 and roll into balls.
  10. Place the balls back under cover to prevent drying out, until ready to roll into you pizza base and make you pizza's.
To make your pizza:
  1. Once you have mastered the pizza dough recipe, check out our next step: how to make the pizza sauce. When you have the base and sauce made, simply add your favourite toppings and cook pizza on 200 deg C for around 12 minutes.

Notes

Storage- once you have rolled the dough into balls you can freeze them for up to 3 months, just make sure they are wrapped well.