Recipe: Appetizing Pizza dough

Pizza dough. This recipe for everyday pizza dough is one we've worked on together over the years, tweaking something here and adding something there, until finally coming to a consensus. Anthony Falco of Roberta's in Bushwick, Brooklyn, teaches Sam Sifton how to make restaurant-style pizza dough at home. For your next pizza night at home, make Bobby Flay's homemade Pizza Dough recipe from Food Network, and finish it with your favorite toppings.

Making homemade pizza dough is a fairly simple process. The only part that requires some skill is the stretching. Do you need to throw the pizza dough into the air like in your favorite pizzeria? You can cook Pizza dough using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pizza dough

1. Prepare 5 cups of dough (1 litre).
2. You need 1 packet of instant yeast.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of sugar.
4. It's 1/2 tbsp of salt.
5. It's 4 tbsp of oil.
6. You need 2 cups of luke warm water.

Making pizza dough at home couldn't get any easier than with my simple pizza dough recipe. You'll never want to buy or order pizza again. Making a great pizza dough is easy. Or at least it's not that hard.

Pizza dough instructions

1. Take about 5 cups flour in a bowl and create a hole in the centre.
2. Add the yeast, sugar, salt and oil in the centre of the flour.
3. Slowly and gradually add the water to the flour to form a medium hard dough. Dont worry if it's hard since it will soften as the dough rises.
4. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes to make a smooth texture then cover with a plastic.
5. The longer you leave the dough the better it rises when cooking. Best is overnight for better results.
6. Roll out the dough to preferred size and add ingredients as desired.
7. Preheat the oven to 220-230°C for about 10-15 mins.
8. If you add semolina to the base of the pizza before cooking it helps avoid sticking and adds a great taste to the pizza.
9. Then cook the pizza for about 10-15 minutes until the dough rises and the cheese melts.
10. You can also freeze your pizzas to eat it ready whenever you feel lazy to cook.
11. All you have to do is cook it for 5-7 mins until the dough rises but not fully cooked.

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