This is an easy pizza dough recipe that helps create the perfect pizza every time. This pizza recipe is so easy it will adapt to your needs. If you don’t have cornmeal on hand, that’s okay. Don’t have a pizza pan? That’s okay too, the pizza is still going to turn out great.
I’ve made this pizza dough so many times through out the years that it’s my favorite recipe simply because it’s so adaptable.
You can use flour instead of cornmeal and still enjoy a sensational pizza. As for the pizza pan, all this dough needs is a metal surface to bake on, you don’t have to complicate it. Use what you have: cookie sheet, casserole dish, heck I’ve even made this dough and baked it on nothing but aluminum foil. In a perfect world, yes, you’ll use cornmeal and a pizza pan. But in the real world, don’t complicate it. I’ve made this pizza using all of those things and it’s still good and everyone enjoys it.
This is an easy pizza dough recipe, and you really can’t mess it up.
If you want a really good tomato-free pizza sauce to top this pizza with. Try our Best Tomato-Free Sauce Instant Pot Recipe.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 1/2 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil
- 1 1/3 cups warm water
- cornmeal or extra flour for sprinkling on the cookie sheet or pizza pan.
Instructions
- In your mixing bowl add 1 tablespoon yeast, 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 1/3 cups warm water.
- Begin slowly mixing in 2 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 4 cups flour either by hand or as you run your mixer on medium-low. You may not need all of the flour. Stop adding flour once the dough has stiff. Then allow to rise for one hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Oil a cookie sheet or pizza pan and sprinkle with either cornmeal or flour and set aside.
- Punch down dough and knead for a few minutes on a flat floured surface. Then roll out the dough. You can make one thick crust pizza or 2 thinner crust pizzas.
- Place dough on pizza pan, cookie sheet or aluminum foil and prick some holes on the surface of the crust with a fork. Place in oven and bake for 10-15 minutes.
- Take pizza dough out of the oven and allow it to cool a bit, then add your sauce, cheese, toppings and sprinkle with more cheese. You can brush olive or vegetable oil over the edges of the pizza to help make the crust golden brown, however this step is optional.
- Then place the pizza with toppings back in the oven and bake for 10-20 minutes until cheese is melted and crust is golden brown.
