How to Make Pizza Dough

How to Make Pizza Dough How to Make Pizza Dough Making of pizza dough at home is not that difficult a task as it seems to be. All you need to do is plan in advance. This is because the pizza dough involves the using of yeast and therefore you need to plan at least a night in advance. Pizza dough made at home is easy to make and is also quite simple to handle. One can also freeze the dough for future use. So the next time your kids ask for a pizza treat at home, avoid buying the dough from the store and decide to make them yourself rather. The things that are needed for making pizza dough are as mentioned below:

Vegetable oil
1 tsp salt
1 ¼ cup of warm water
Dry yeast
About 4 cups of sifted flour
Baking sheet

After having assembled all those things that are mentioned in the list above, we can proceed further with the making of healthy and hygienic pizza dough. The steps that are mentioned below can assist you in making the pizza dough in a simpler manner:

Use a medium bowl and pour into it 1 ¼ cups of warm water. After having done that, you have to sprinkle the yeast into the warm water and stir the mixture till the yeast dissolves completely. To this mixture of water and yeast you have to add 2 cups of sifted flour and ensure that the flour also gets blended nicely. After the flour gets blended nicely in the mixture, you have to add another 2 cups of flour to the mixture and stir it till the mixture gets too stiff.
Now that you can notice that the flour cannot be stirred anymore with a spoon, you have to take the dough out from the bowl and place it on a floured surface. Use your hands to knead the dough nicely till it becomes smooth. This process has to be continued for about 15 minutes. After the dough has been kneaded properly, place it in a bowl which has a little bit of oil in it. Avoid kneading the dough once again. All you have to do is to turn the dough once so that it gets covered in oil.
Use a plastic wrap to cover the bowl containing the dough. Make sure that you place this bowl in a warm area for about 45 minutes. This is done to make the dough rise in size. Simultaneously you need to preheat your oven to about 500 degrees. After 45 minutes of placing the dough in the warm area, you can notice that it has risen in size. Take the dough out from the bowl and again place it on the floured surface and start punching it down. This will get rid of any air bubbles that might have been trapped inside. Now the dough has to be divided into half.
You shall have to roll out both the halves of the dough into 12 inch circles. However the thickness of the pizza is entirely your personal choice. The rolled out dough has to be now placed on a baking sheet. Use the toppings of your choice to be placed over it along with sauce and cheese and start baking the pizza for about 20 minutes till the crust gets browned lightly.