Pizza Dough
Makes enough for: 4 pizzas
Ingredients
for the pizza dough
- 500 g bread flour
- 10 g fine salt
- 15 g yeast
- 400 mls tepid water, divided
- olive oil for greasing
for the pizzas
- Pizza sauce
- mozzarella cheese, grated
- toppings of your choice
Method
for the pizza dough
- Place the flour, salt and yeast into a stand mixer bowl
- Add 300mls water and using the dough hook, mix for 3 minutes on a low speed
- While still running on a low speed, slowly add the water
- Mix for 8 minutes on a medium speed
- Do not panic - the dough will come together!
- Oil 2 glass bowls generously
- Divide the dough between each bowl (455g per bowl)
- Cover with lightly oiled cling film and leave to prove until doubled in size
- Knock bag and place into the fridge until you are ready to use
for the pizzas
- Preheat the oven to 200° Celsius - if you are using a pizza stone, place the stone in the oven
- Divide the dough into 4 equal portions, leaving the dough you are not using in the fridge until needed
- Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and roll and stretch until the dough will fit your pizza pan / stone
- Bake the pizza base for 5 minutes
- Spread 2 tablespoons of the pizza sauce onto the base, quite thinly
- Add a sprinkling of mozzarella cheese
- Add your toppings
- Bake for 20 minutes for a thin base, and 25 minutes for a thick base
Notes
Once you have baked the pizza bases for 5 minutes you can set them aside to use as needed, or freeze them to use later. Cool on a wire rack before placing them onto a board or into freezer proof packaging.