Simple and Delicious Pizza Dough | The Speckled Palate
Simple and Delicious Pizza Dough
60 mins prepServes 4
The simplest ingredients make the tastiest pizza dough! This light dough that crisps up easily when baked works beautifully as the base any kind of pizza pie!
-1 In a large bowl, combine the unbleached flour, the whole wheat flour and yeast, mixing the ingredients together with a whisk.
-1 In a small bowl, combine the hot water, olive oil, sugar and salt.
-1 Stir the wet mixture until the sugar has completely dissolved.
-1 Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until the mix is barely together.
-1 Turn out onto a floured counter and knead for five minutes, working the dough until it is elastic.
-1 Form dough into a ball, splash it with a little bit of olive oil, place back into the bowl and let rise for 45 minutes (or until the dough has doubled in size.)
-1 Once the dough has doubled in size, cut into four equal-sized pieces.
-1 From here, you can roll out the dough and start making your pizzas!
-1 To make a pizza: Preheat the oven to 475°F. Let the pizza stone (or the pan you'll be using) preheat in the oven, too.
-1 Lightly flour the surface of a flat counter, and roll out a round of pizza dough.
-1 Once the oven and pizza stone are heated, remove the pizza stone from the oven using an oven mitt.
-1 Transfer the pizza dough to the hot pizza stone. Swirl on pizza sauce and any toppings you desire, then transfer into the oven.
-1 Bake the pizza for 10-15 minutes, checking every few minutes to confirm the toppings and crust are not burning.
-1 Once the pizza is cooked through and the dough is crisp, remove from the oven, cut into slices and enjoy warm!