Homemade pizza base. See the recipe plus a helpful video and have homemade pizza in under an hour. Quick and easy pizza dough, no kneading required. See the recipe plus a helpful video and have homemade pizza in under an hour.
You can reduce the added salt if you like.
Salt in bread doughs is used for flavour (it also counters the effects of yeast but this is not a big factor in pizza making.) We'd suggest using some unless you have been advised otherwise.
If you're planning to make pizza today, then give the dough a rise.
You can have Homemade pizza base using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Homemade pizza base
- Prepare 1 of . All purpose flour - 500 gms.
- You need 2 of . Sugar - 1/2 tspn.
- You need 3 of . Salt.
- You need 4 of . Dry yeast - 1 tspn.
- Prepare 5 of . Oil - 30 ml.
- Prepare 6 of . Warm water.
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Homemade pizza base instructions
- In a bowl add yeast, sugar, some warm water and stir well. Keep aside a minute..
- Take another bowl, add all purpose flour and salt. Combine well..
- Add yeast mixture and oil and mix well..
- Add water littile by littile and knead a dough. Make a soft dough kneading for about 12 - 15 minutes..
- Grease a bowl with oil and transfer the dough to it..
- Cover with a damp muslin cloth and keep aside for 1 hour..
- After the dough has risen, divide into 3 equal portion. (While we begin to start working on the first pizza base, we need to cover the rest of 2 portion under a damp muslin cloth)..
- Flatten it with a rolling pin by dusting littile flour and form a pizza shape..
- Dust a baking tray with flour and transfer the dough to it..
- With the help of a fork prick the entire top of the base..
- Bake in a preheated oven at 210°C for 10-15 minutes. Homemade pizza base is ready. If you wish to store pizza base, you need to cool it completely and transfer it into a zip lock bag. This can easily stay in a freezer for 2 weeks..
This Pizza Dough can be made the same day or left to rise overnight in the fridge. Make a typical Pizza Margherita or a popular Pizza. But if you have bread flour, it will still produce a great. To help make your dough rise faster, fill your kitchen sink a third full with warm water and sit the dough in the bowl in the water to prove. For a delicious crunchy base, sprinkle polenta onto the kitchen bench instead of flour, when rolling out the pizza dough.