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The Best Pizza Dough Ever

I think the name says it all. This recipe is simple, easy and deeeeeelicious.
Servings: 6 personal pizzas

Ingredients

  • 5 cups bread flour
  • 3 tsp instant dry yeast
  • 2 tsp sea salt
  • 1 1/2 - 2 cups water lukewarm

Instructions

  • Add dry ingredients + 1 1/2 cups of the water to a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook and mix until fully incorporated, adding the extra water as needed to create a soft, but not sticky dough. Knead with the dough hook for about 10 minutes.
  • Lightly dust clean countertop with flour and divide your dough into six equal balls, if you want to do small 6-8" personal-sized pizzas. Otherwise, you can make fewer, but larger dough balls for larger pizzas.
  • Shape dough into balls by folding ends under, rounding each into a tight ball. Place on a lightly oiled sheet pan, cover with plastic wrap or foil or a damp kitchen towel and place in fridge overnight.
  • Remove dough balls from fridge at least two hours before making pizza.
  • Preheat oven or grill (set up for indirect heat) to 500 - 600 degrees (or as high as your oven will go). Preheat pizza stone or cookie sheet in oven or on grill as well. Pizza stone needs a good 45 minutes to heat up.
  • Use the pads of your fingers to gently press air out from the center of your pizza rounds, and toward the edges to make that crust lip. Lightly sauce + top pizzas as desired.
  • Use a pizza peel or floured cookie sheet to transfer pizzas from the counter to the oven or grill. (Read tips in blog post for a good technique.) Cook 7-10 minutes (for smaller pizzas), rotating pizza every so often if desired to evenly brown the crust.
  • Let cool a couple minutes, then slice and serve!