Recipe: Perfect Pizza Dough

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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.

Pizza Dough 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 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pizza Dough

  1. Prepare 4 1/2 cup of All-Purpose Flour.
  2. It's 3 tsp of Kosher Salt.
  3. Prepare 2 tsp of Instant Yeast.
  4. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp of sugar.
  5. It's 3 tbsp of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil.
  6. Prepare 15 oz of of Lukewarm Water (Heat 40 sec Microwave).
  7. It's 1 large of Stainless Steel Bowl.
  8. It's 1 of Food Processor or Mixer.

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. Combine 4 cups flour, sugar, salt, and yeast in bowl of food Processor.
  2. Pulse 3 to 4 times until incorporated.
  3. Add Olive Oil and Water.
  4. Run food processor until mixture forms ball that rides around the bowl above the blade, about 15 seconds.
  5. Continue Processing 15 seconds longer.
  6. Transfer dough ball to lightly floured surface and knead once or twice by hand until smooth ball is formed..
  7. Divide dough into 3 even parts and place each in a covered quart-sized deli container or zip lock freezer bag..
  8. Place in refer and allow to rise at least one day, up to 5 hours.

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