Basic Pizza Dough
Make this easy basic pizza dough recipe for homemade pizzas that are the best pizza in town.
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 package dry yeast 2 1/4 teaspoons
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 Tablespoons oil I like olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 - 3 cups all purpose flour you can substitute some whole wheat
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix yeast, sugar, and water.
- Add in olive oil, salt and 1 1/2 cups of flour.
- Mix to combine.
- Keeping adding flour by 1/4 cups until the dough is smooth and tacky, but not too sticky. Bread dough should almost always have a little annoying stick to it.
- Let dough rest for 5 minutes, or covered, up to 2 hours.
Notes
For a thinner crispier dough, let dough rest for 5 minutes.
For a thicker more bread like dough, let the dough rest longer.