Simple thick crust pizza dough. What a treat for my and husbanad and me. I've never made dough from scratch before and this couldn't be easier. This recipe makes homemade pizza a simple dinner any night of the week.

This homemade pizza dough recipe is great for beginners and yields a soft and chewy pizza crust. Combine flour, salt, yeast, and olive oil and whisk to combine. The dough should be very gooey. You can cook Simple thick crust pizza dough using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Simple thick crust pizza dough

You need 17 1/2 oz of AP flour.
It's 2 tsp of kosher salt.
Prepare 1 packet (7 g) of instant yeast.
It's 1/2 cup of olive oil.
You need 12 1/4 oz of water.

Pizza dough starts with a basic bread dough. We like to add a little olive oil to our dough to give added flavor and to make the dough nice and supple to work with. Pizza dough is simple to make, and once it's stretched out you just have to top it and bake it in a hot oven. So you've got a relaxed pizza dough waiting in the bowl and you're ready start stretching out the dough.

Simple thick crust pizza dough step by step

Combine flour, salt, yeast, and olive oil and whisk to combine..
Whisk in the water..
With a wooden spoon, mix well for about 3 minutes. The dough should be very gooey..
Cover dough in plastic wrap and set aside for at least 6 hours, but as long as 15 hours is fine, supposedly..
Preheat the oven to 550F..
Grease up a baking pan with olive oil. I used a 10" x 14" tray..
Slide the dough into the pan. Use a greased spoon or spatula to stretch the dough to cover the pan. Try not to push out too much of the gas that's been trapped in the dough..
Top however you like, and bake for 20-25 minutes, until the crust is golden toasty brown..

Don't worry if the edge (or what will be the crust) isn't thicker than the center — the. Be it thick or thin, a good crust starts with a slow-rising dough. Plan ahead by mixing dough in the morning and letting it rise, refrigerated, all day long. What makes this thin crust pizza dough recipe easy? In a sentence: You don't need to stretch the dough.