Z’s Easiest Pizza Dough Ever
Ingredients
- 4.5 Cups Bread Flour Refrigerated
- 1 3/4 Tsp Salt
- 1 Tsp Yeast active dry yeast
- 1/4 Cup Olive oil
- 1 3/4 Cups Water Refrigerated
Instructions
- Put your flour (Already in the mixing bowl) and water (In a 2 cup measuring cup) in the fridge a few hours before you are going to make the pizza dough so everything is chilled.
- When you are ready to bring the dough together. Take the flour and water out of the fridge.
- Add other dry ingredients to the mixing bowl.
- Add olive oil to measuring cup with water.
- With paddle attachment on your stand mixer, slowly add water/oil to dry ingredients on medium/low speed until ingredients start to stick together and form a sticky ball.
- Once ball is formed, change attachment to dough hook on stand mixer. Kneed with mixer on medium speed for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes you should have a smooth/sticky ball of dough.
- Divide dough into 3 even balls (about 15oz each) and place in ziplock bags (spray inside of bags with no-stick spray)
- Place dough balls in fridge. They can be used almost immediately however, 24 hours to several days is preferred for flavor and texture.)
- Take doughs out of fridge 3 hours before you are ready to make pizza.
- Sprinkle flour on work surface and slow stretch doughs working from the center out. This recipe makes a very tender and stretchy dough so work slowly and carefully or you will make holes in dough.
- Once stretched out, put dough on pizza paddle lightly dusted with flour, add favorite ingredients and place on a pizza stone in a 500-550* oven until done. Typically 8 to 15 minutes.
