Recipe: Perfect 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 have Pizza Dough using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pizza Dough

1. You need 4 cups of flour.
2. It's 1 tsp of sugar.
3. You need 2 tsp of salt.
4. You need 1 package of yeast.
5. You need 2 Tbsp of oil, additional 2 Tbsp oil.
6. It's 1.5 cups of water warm 110 F.

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Pizza Dough step by step

1. Mix flour, salt, sugar yeast and mix together. Gradually add water and 2 Tbsp of oil. Mix until dough ball forms. If dough is too dry add water 1 Tbsp at a time until ball forms, if too wet at 1 Tbsp at a time of flour until not sticky..
2. Knead dough of floured surface until ball is smooth. Maybe a minute. Place in bowl and coat with additional 2 Tbsp of oil. Cover and let raise for 1 hour in warm place..
3. Once dough has doubled in size punch to let air out. Divide into 2 equal dough balls. Use both or freeze..
4. Roll dough out to desired thickness, on parchment paper. Put on pizza sauce, and toppings of choice..
5. Cook at 450F for 10-15 minutes based on pizza size. Look for cheese to bubble in middle of pie for doneness. If using a pizza stone let preheat for 1 hour prior in oven..

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