Homemade Pizza Dough

Its easy and fun to make your own pizza dough. You can make the perfect base for your favorite pizza toppings with just a few simple ingredients and some time.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
• 1 1/2 cups warm water 110F/43C
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp sugar

Instructions:

Warm water and sugar should be mixed in a small bowl

Add the yeast to the water and let it sit for five minutes

After that, stir it around to make foam

Put flour and salt in a large bowl and mix them together

There should be a well in the middle of the flour mixture

Add the yeast mixture and olive oil to the well

Mix the things together until you get a dough

On a floured surface, knead the dough for five to seven minutes, or until it gets smooth and stretchy

To make the dough double in size, put it in a bowl that has been greased and cover it with a damp cloth

Let it rise in a warm place for one to two hours

Set your oven to 475F 245C before you start cooking

The dough has risen, so punch it down and divide it into two equal pieces

Each piece will make a pizza crust

On a floured surface, roll out each piece of dough into the pizza crust thickness you want

Put the pizza dough on a baking sheet or pizza stone

Place the pizza in the oven and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese melts and bubbles

Cut up your homemade pizza and enjoy it