Basic pizza dough recipe with step by step pictures. This is a very basic dough for pizza which gives you perfect pizza, buns, calzones all the time. You don't need any equipment or heavy machines like stand mixer to make this.
Pizza Dough
This is a basic pizza dough that I use to make all kinds of stuff like buns, pizzas, calzones and many more. I am planning to post so many recipes that calls for this dough, so I thought of posting this dough recipe as a separate post.
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About Homemade Pizza Dough
Did you know making pizza dough at home is super easy and quick. Pizza made with pizza dough is so much better than store bought base. All you need is just flour, salt, sugar, warm water and olive oil to make the dough.
This pizza dough is super versatile, you can make pizza, buns, rolls, calzones, focaccia using this same dough. Also if your dough is too sticky, add more flour. if it is too dry add more water. Thats it.
Once the dough is mixed, You let them rise for few hours before making pizza.One thing you have to make sure is the dough is soft and smooth than hard. Soft elastic dough makes crispy and airy pizza. If you prefer healthy pizza dough, check my whole wheat pizza dough.
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Ingredients
- All Purpose flour - use bread flour or high gluten flour for making pizza. You can use half wheat flour and regular flour in this recipe. Or check my whole wheat pizza dough.
- Dry Yeast - I used dry yeast which needs to be activated before hand making the dough.
- Sugar - A small amount of sugar helps activate the yeast.
- Salt - be generous with the salt, else pizza won't have much flavour.
- Olive oil - you can use regular good quality olive oil for flavour.
- Warm Water - you can add luke warm water to make the dough.
Step by Step Pictures
1)Take luke warm water in a bowl or jug. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar and yeast into the warm water and mix it once. Now set this aside for 5 minutes for it to get foamy.
2)Now you can see the yeast has activated. It should looks so foamy.
3)Now in a large mixing bowl. Take plain flour. Add in salt to taste and mix it really well so the salt is evenly mixed into the flour.
4)Now pour in the foamy yeast water and use a fork to mix the flour into the yeast mixture.
5)The dough should come together like this.
6)Now add in olive oil into the dough and knead it until combined.
7)Apply olive oil on top of the dough and mix once.
8)Cover the dough with plastic wrap and set aside for 1 to 1.5 hours till the dough is doubled in size.
9)Keep the bowl in a warm place. I usually place it inside my oven, with just oven light on.
10)Look the dough has go doubled in volume now.
11)You can punch out the air from this and use in your recipe. You can make pizza, focaccia, calzones using this dough.
Expert Tips
- The dough which you make should be very soft and slightly sticky before the first rise, once it is risen then add more more and knead to a soft dough. This ensures that the pizza base turn crispy and chewy.
- You can refrigerate the dough for a week. And use whenever you need. But make sure you use a big bowl or container, because they do rise in the fridge.
- You can use other oil or butter in the dough. But in my opinion olive oil gives the real flavour.
Serving and Storage
You can use this dough to make pizza, buns and more. Leftover pizza dough can be kept in a covered container in fridge upto 2 days. Remove from fridge 30 minutes before making pizza.
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 cups All Purpose flour (Plain Flour)
- 1 tablespoon Dry Yeast
- 1 tablespoon Sugar
- 2 teaspoon Salt or to taste
- 1¼ cup Warm Water or as needed
- 3 tablespoon Olive oil
Instructions
- Mix yeast, sugar with warm water and set it aside for 5 min or till it foam up.
- Take flour in a bowl and mix salt with it. Add the yeast water with the flour mixture and make a soft dough. Add olive oil and knead it once to incorporate oil into the dough.
- Now apply 1 teaspoon of oil all over the dough generously and cover it. Cover it with a damp cloth and Set this aside in a warm place till it doubles in size( for about 1 hour).
- When it doubles, knock out the air and knead once. Now it is ready to use.
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Priya
Nothing will replace the homemade stuffs, pizza dough looks wonderful..
Makenzie
Any advice for making this with white whole wheat flour?
Charles
Hi Aarthi, how did you cook it in the end? I recently bought a pizza stone which you put in the bottom of the oven and cook it on the stone... it makes amazing pizza!
Inside a British Mum's Kitchen
Can't wait to try this pizza dough - sounds wonderful, my kids will be thrilled. Now following you
Mary
Rosita Vargas
esta es la verdadera masa para las pizzas dobla en tamaño y sacar el aire,queda crujiente y no se endurece al otro día felicitaciones,cariños y abrazos.
Deeksha
very useful for me..thanks for sharing!
Santosh Bangar
thanks for sharing tips of making pizza dough
Kalpana Sareesh
wow i hv never tried this at home.. its perfect will try it..
Hovkonditorn
Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog! It is always nice to find new food blogs! Have a great day!
Sharmilee! :)
Sounds gud....Useful post
sonu
pizza dough looks simply perfect..soft and elastic ..good recipe !
Anna Johnston
It's always great to have a quick dough recipe on hand, thanks for sharing this it looks great.
S.Menaga
Hi dear,thx u for ur lovely comment..happy to follow u..u have a nice collection.
pizza dough looks wonderful!!
Rinku Naveen
Hi Aarti
Thanks for dropping by and for ur lovely comments.
I have been your follower since some time now guess from May this year 🙂
Do let me know if you don't see me on the followers list. Will follow again. Thanks
The Blonde Duck
Popped in to say hi! I've always loved making pizza!
RAKS KITCHEN
I too follow almost a similar method! Keeper!
Barbara
We all need a basic pizza dough recipe, Aarthi; it leads to all sorts of tasty new results! 🙂 Love calzones!
Cooking Creation
The best pizza dough is definitely homemade. I load mine with garlic. YUM!
Reshmi Mahesh
Hai Aarathi...You have got a lovely space and nice collection of recipes...Thanks for dropping at my space and your lovely comments.
Pizza dough is a very useful post and You have explained it very nicely.
tasteofbeirut
Great recipe to have on hand!
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thanks
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
Love this recipe dear 🙂
WizzyTheStick
Aarti, thanks for stopping my site. Love getting to know the sites of others
Shilpa Ravindran
Can u tell me how to prebake pizza crust at what temperature and time..then keeping it in fridge..after that taking the crust and baking with topings to eat...
Anonymous
Hi Aarthi, I have a doubt, should we use Dry yeast or wet yeast for making the dough? UmaRaghu
Aarthi
@Uma
I used dry yeast..
Isvarya Lakshmi O
Hi what brand of dry yeast do you use?
Aarthi
i use a brand which my super market sells. you can buy yeast from amazon.
Anonymous
Hi Aarthi, Is it possible to make the dough well in advance and store it in fridge. If so how many days we can store and use? Please reply, since it will be very useful for me to make in bulk and store it in fridge ( Especially before preparing for party's) - UmaRaghu/Poland
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can store in fridge for upto a week..
Anonymous
Can you tell me 2 cups of all purpose flour is equal to how many grams of all purpose flour/Maida
Aarthi
@Anonymous It is around 240 to 250 grams..
Priety Maheshwari
my yeast mixture has nt got frothy despite being kept for one hour. nd even I used dry yeast...whts wrong ..Help
Aarthi
@Priety MaheshwariIt is because of three reason.
1)You must have added yeast to cold water. It wont get activated in cold water.
2)You must have added yeast to very hot water, so it must have killed yeast.
3)Your yeast must be expired. Always store yeast in fridge. Throw the yeast away and get a new batch.
Anonymous
Can we make pav buns and breads frm this dough as well.tia
Abubakarb Bakar
From this dough can we make just one pizza
I mean 2 cups of Maida is enough for making one pizza's dough? ???
Aarthi
@Abubakarb BakarYes u can make
Aarthi
@Anonymous Here is the link for pav buns
https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2012/01/homemade-soft-fluffy-pav-buns-white.html
Anonymous
Can I freeze this pizza dough and use it whenever needed ?
Aarthi
@AnonymousYes u can freeze it individual portions and thaw it before using
kanika mehra
Hi Aarthi, can any other oil instead of olive oil be used?
Aarthi
@kanika mehraYes u can use any oil as u wish
Garima Jain
Substitute of yeast..??
Anonymous
Hi aarti... i cnt find eaisly in nearest market... cn u plz tell me how to prepare pizza dough without yeast..?
Aarthi
@Garima Jainno sub for yeast in pizza dough
Anonymous
2 cup maida measurmnt equal to how much gm in making pizza dough???
Anonymous
Pizza dough is ready.. plz tell me wot next to do fo pizza base..?
Aarthi
@AnonymousCheck this recipe
https://yummytummyrecipeindex.blogspot.in/2010/12/pizza-calzonesrolls-wraps-quesadilla.html
Aarthi
@Anonymous2 cup maida is 240 grams
Anonymous
This is the best dough recipe ever.. No fail experience both the times I tried.. Many prayers your way....
Anonymous
If we dont have baking tray what else can i use instead of it
Aarthi
@Anonymousu can use a plate
Anonymous
Hi Aarthi, have tried this recipe last week n let me tell you how beautifully it turned out..!! Wish i could send u a pic. Still basking in all the compliments I received. Now I want to know if I could try making sub sanwich bread out if this dough? Thanks again. Keep up the good work.!
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can make subway sandwich bread.
Anonymous
Is it 1 or 1.5 tsp yeast.bcoz in pictorial representatiom its shows only 1tssp so a doubt arised
Aarthi
@AnonymousNo it is 1.5 tsp, i used it because of the spoon.I dont have a 1.5 tsp
Indu
Hi aarthi,
Could u please tell me how to use instant yeast for making pizza dough.this is the first time I will be using yeast so,I have got no idea.
Thanks in advance
Aarthi
@Indujut add instant yeast in with the flour and other ingredients and knead it to a very soft sticky dough. Then proceed with other steps
Anonymous
Hello Aarti.... how many pizzas can be made from 240gms of dough
Aarthi
@Anonymousit depends on the size, you can make 2 medium size ones
Anonymous
Can i use rice flour instead of maida? Because of gluten sensitivity I'm looking for gluten free option.
Aarthi
@Anonymousno rice flour cannot be used
Anonymous
Then can you suggest a recipe for gluten free pizza base?
Aarthi
@Anonymouswill soon share
Anonymous
what is the rising time when using the instant yeast?as it is a instant yeast,i have a doubt whether it needs the same rising time as dry yeast..thankyou
Aarthi
@Anonymousrising depends on climate. let it rise till it doubles in size
Anonymous
Can u tell me d difference between instant yeast n dry yeast?? I use active dry yeast(balls) in my recipes.. I proof d yeast always ...but i always get a yeast smell in d bread/dough..not like store bought ones..plz help.. Plz suggest sum good brands too
Aarthi
@Anonymous if you get yeast smell then reduce the yeast a little and allow it to rise for more time.
MDE SHAH
really a useful post. i like the way how you post with picture. it helps a lot. thank you so much.
cheena goyal
hello mam. i am contant follower of ur recepies. All ur recepies turned out vry well. mam i have tried making pizza base many times but the problem coming in that is yeast smell. in kneeding dow the yeast smell comes in dow. plz tell me how can i avoid it.
Aarthi
@cheena goyalsome yeast has a over powering smell. Use diff brand next time.
Sapna Deore
Hi arathi.. Could u tell me if the active time for active dry yest would be the same as given in the recipe?
Aarthi
@Sapna Deoreyes i hope so, keep a eye on it. if it gets foamy and bubbly soon, then u can use it any time.
Raji
Hi Arti,
I am Raji and I am a die hard fan of your recipes. They are simple and very easy to follow. And the pictorials help a lot. Could you please tell me which brand of yeast is the best? Bakers yeast?
Aarthi
@Rajiu can use bakers
nancyrobert2011
Pizza Making is actually an art and it is very interesting teach in easy way thanks for information
pizza making
Unknown
Hi Aarthi, Can i replace maida with Wheat flour?Is the process same
Janani M
Hi Aarthi,Your recipes are so good.. pictorial representation helps a lot.kindly share wheat flour pizza dough..
libra
what temp to bake at and how long
Aarthi
check my pizza recipes for that
https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/search/label/Pizza
Renita
Mam how to store the yeast, has I have brought a big pack, please let me know