How to make pizza dough with your bread maker

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By onederland
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Use your bread maker for your pizza dough recipe!

Dust off the bread maker and put it to use! Making pizza dough in the bread maker is super easy, saves money, and nothing can compare with the taste of a fresh-baked pizza crust! This pizza dough recipe makes enough for a large pizza or five calzones.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

bread maker
measuring cups and spoons
water
olive oil
flour
sugar
salt
yeast

Step 1

Put the wet ingredients in the bread maker: 1 1/4 cups of water and 2 T. + 1 t. olive oil.
Step 2

Put the dry ingredients into the bread maker: 3 1/2 cups of flour, 1 T. of sugar, and 1/2 T. of salt.
Step 3

Make a small valley in the center of the dry ingredients and put in 2 1/4 t. of yeast (or one packet).
Step 4

Set the bread maker to the dough setting. When the cycle is done, start it over for a minute or so, letting it run until the pizza dough has just pulled away from the edge of the pan and has formed a ball. Stop the bread maker, sprinkle the ball with a little flour, pull it out and place on a floured board. Let the pizza dough rest and rise for a few minutes before using.

Tips & Warnings

If the bread maker sounds like it's struggling at any point, put in another teaspoon of water.
Add more salt if you like a saltier pizza crust. Also, you can add some Italian herbs, such as oregano and basil, if you like an herbed pizza crust.
This pizza dough recipe is not "thin & crispy"; it produces a breadier, softer crust.
Pizzas and calzones made with this pizza dough recipe freeze well so I make a few batches while doing once a month cooking and add them to my stash of freezer meals.
If you follow the tips in my article, "How to save on ingredients for homemade bread and pizza", each pizza crust is only 39 cents per pizza!

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