Beths Perfect And Easy Homemade Pizza Dough Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). In a medium bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
• Stir in flour, salt and oil. Beat until smooth. Let rest for 5 minutes.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat or roll into a round. Transfer crust to a lightly greased pizza pan or baker's peel dusted with cornmeal. Spread with desired toppings and bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Let baked pizza cool for 5 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in water.
• Combine flour and salt in large mixing bowl.
• Make a well in center of flour and with your hands, work in 1/2 of the yeast mixture.
• Add olive oil and then continue to work in the rest of the yeast mixture.
• Add 1 tablespoon of water if necessary to make dough soft and smooth.
• Turn dough onto flat surface and knead for 10 minutes.
• Oil a large mixing bowl and place dough in it, turning on dough over to get oil on all sides.
• Cover with damp towel and let rise for 1 hour.
• Preheat pizza stone in oven at 500 degrees.
• Divide pizza dough in half. Roll out each half into 12-14" circles making crusts about 1/8" thick.
• Sprinkle 3 tablespoons cornmeal onto pizza peal. Place 1 pizza crust on pizza peal and lightly brush with olive oil. Add all ingredients you want on your pizza.
• Slide pizza from peel onto preheated pizza stone in the oven. Cook until crust is crisp and golden, about 15-20 minutes.
• DOUGH CAN BE FROZEN: After rising, shape dough into 2 balls a, wrap and freeze. To use, thaw at room temperature and roll out as described.

Steps:

• Combine yeast and warm water.
• Stir until dissolved.
• Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Let rest 5 minutes.
• Roll out to size and shape you need.
• (I have used this same size recipe in jelly roll pans and on round baking stones.) Bake at 450* for 15 minutes or until golden.
• A couple tips: Sometimes I omit the sugar.
• Instead, I add several good shakes of Italian seasoning mix (just dried herbs).
• Use your imagination, this is hard to mess up.