This is an easy, hard to mess up, delish pizza dough recipe. You can change it up too. We’ve done almost everything wrong at one time or another and it still came out not only edible but good.
1 cup water, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 teaspoons yeast, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 cup oil, 5 cups flour
I usually heat the water for a minute in the microwave, then put the cold milk and swirl it around so it is warm but not hot. Then I mix in the rest of the ingredients. For years I kneaded this by hand on my kitchen table but now I use a dough hook on my fancy mixer, either way it should be kneaded about 15 minutes and then left to rise for about 90 minutes in a warm place. If the dough is too sticky I add bits of flour until it is sort of like play doh.
It usually makes enough for three decent size pizzas which we roll out on our kitchen counter. I sprinkle the dough with Italian Seasoning, then use regular tomato sauce or left over spaghetti sauce. We are mostly vegetarian so we rarely use meat toppings. We do lots of onion and pepper but our favorite is chunks of pineapple. Let me know how your pizza ends up.
I cook the pizzas on 425 degrees, setting the timer at 10 minutes at which point I switch the position of the pizzas. The cooking time depends on the thickness of the dough and how many toppings you have too though. I find that often you can tell when the pizza is done by smelling it. Having a decent pizza pan is also really helpful. People swear by the pizza stones but I have not been able to spring for that yet. Cheers.
Plain Cheese Pizza
