How to Make Fresh Homemade Pizza Dough Crust

Make' s a nice fresh homemade chewy pizza dough crust without the need of a mixer

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 3.5 cups flour
• 1 cup water
• 2tbs bakers yeast
• 3tbs honey
• 1ts salt
• 2tbs olive oil

1. 
   Yeast mixture for fresh homemade pizza dough crust

   Step 1 for fresh homemade pizza dough crust.
   Combine yeast and water and let sit for 5 min.
   Combine 1 Cup flour, honey, salt, olive oil into a mixing bowl.

2. 
   Soft dough ball for fresh homemade pizza dough crust

   Step 2 for fresh homemade pizza dough crust.
   Once yeast has started to activate. Mix in with other ingredients.
   Stir until smooth. Add 1 more cup of flour 1/2 cup at a time and continue mixing until you can form a soft ball with the dough.

3. 
   Kneading dough for fresh homemade pizza dough crust

   Step 3 for fresh homemade pizza dough crust
   Place rest of flour onto a counter top and place dough onto it. Start to roll dough around in the flour and squash, knead and pound it around until it becomes stiff, non sticky and bounces back when pressed.

4. Step 4 for fresh homemade pizza dough crust.
   Turn on oven to 350 for 2-3 min. Just the right amount to raise the temperature to let the dough rise then turn it off. Place dough into a clean mixing bowl and cover lightly with olive oil.
   Place into the oven for 20-30 min until the dough has doubled in size

5. 
   Pizza shell for fresh homemade pizza dough crust

   Step 5 for fresh homemade pizza dough crust.
   Once dough has raised dust counter top with flour and place dough back onto it. Coat the dough with flour and start to flatten it into a round pizza shell shape with your hands or a rolling pin. Aprox 15 inch.

6. 
   Finnished pizza for fresh homemade pizza dough crust

   Step 6 for fresh homemade pizza dough crust .
   Place pizza shell onto a cooking sheet or pizza stone and top with your favorite toppings. Cook pizza at 450F for 15-20min

Tips & Warnings

• Keep hands coated in flour to avoid dough sticking to them
• Dust bottom of pizza with cornmeal to prevent it from sticking to pizza stone's
• lightly coat pressed pizza shell with olive oil before adding sauce to prevent it from soaking into the dough

[totalreviewguy]

on 3/21/2009 That fresh homemade pizza dough look dang tasty. I'll be trying this recipe!

[goldiec]

on 3/21/2009 Thanks for the pizza dough recipe. 5*

[08bairs]

on 3/19/2009 Sweet. Love Pizza 5*