This is a great crispy pizza dough recipe. The secret to crispy crust: hot oven, thin uniform crust, and pre-baking. This recipe will make 2-14 inch pizzas.
Ready
- 3 cups bread flour or high gluten flour
- 2 teaspoons instant yeast
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon dry milk or nonfat dry milk
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
Set
- Mixer with dough hook
- 14 inch pizza pans lightly greased
- Clean cotton dish towels
- If using baking stone: pizza peel, lightly floured
Go
- Preheat your oven to 500°F for at least 30 minutes.
- In small bowl, “proof” yeast by taking ¼ cup of the water (at right temperature: 110º to 115º F) and adding sugar, and yeast. Let set for a couple of minutes. It should bubble and foam. If it does not your yeast may be old. Start over with fresh yeast.
- Place in mixing bowl of mixer with dough hook and combine the rest of the ingredients.
- Mix until the dough comes together making a firm, supple dough. Knead for 5 minutes.
- Remove dough from mixer and divide the dough in half. Cover each half with towel, and allow the dough to rest and relax for 15 minutes.
- Roll out to 3/16-inch thick and approximately 14-inch in diameter. Cover the dough again, and let it rest.
- Uncover the dough and dock (prick dough) with fork.
- Place on lightly greased pizza pan and place in oven.
- After 5 minutes, remove it from the oven, and top it with tomato sauce and your choice of toppings. Return the pizza to the oven; bake for an additional 10 minutes or until the crust is brown and the toppings are bubbly.
What you should know
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