Homemade Pizza Dough

Not only is making your own pizza dough easy, but you'll know exactly what's going into your dough!

This homemade pizza dough takes about 10-minutes to make & needs about an hour to rise before working with it.

After rising time, you can store the dough in the fridge (in the oiled bowl), covered with plastic wrap, for up to 2 hours before using.

Ingredients

2 packets (1/4 oz each) active dry yeast

2 tablespoons sugar (I have used brown sugar with no problem and cut to 1 tablespoon successfully)

1/4 c. olive oil + more for bowl

2 teaspoons coarse salt

4 cups all-purpose flour + more for work surface (I normally use white whole wheat flour)

Directions

Pour 1 1/2 cups warm water into a large bowl; sprinkle with yeast and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.

Whisk sugar, oil and salt into yeast mixture. Add flour and stir until a sticky dough forms. Transfer dough to an oiled bowl. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm, draft-free place until dough has doubled in size, about 1 hour. Turn out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead 1 or 2 times before using.