Easy Pizza Dough

A simple pizza dough which can be frozen

Servings: 8 pizzas

Author: Katie

Prep Time
25 minutes

Proving time
2 hours

Main Course

Italian

Dough Pizza

Instructions

1 Sieve the flour/s and salt onto a clean work surface (or into a large bowl if
you aren’t keen on the mess) and make a well in the middle.
2 In a jug, mix the yeast, sugar and oil into 650ml of lukewarm water and leave
for a few minutes, then pour into the well.
3 Using a fork, bring the flour in gradually from the sides and swirl it into the
liquid. Keep mixing, drawing larger amounts of flour in, and when it all starts
to come together, work the rest of the flour in with your clean, flour-dusted
hands. Knead until you have a smooth, springy dough. (or, if you are lucky
enough to have a stand mixer – put all your ingredients there and let your dough
hook do the work).
4 Place the ball of dough in a large flour-dusted bowl and flour the top of it.
Cover the bowl with a damp cloth and place in a warm room (we use our boiler
cupboard) for about an hour until the dough has doubled in size.
5 Now remove the dough to a flour-dusted surface and knead it around a bit to push
the air out with your hands – this is called knocking back the dough.
6 Divide the dough up into as many little balls as you want to make pizzas – this
amount of dough is enough to make about six to eight medium pizzas. If you want
to make my traybake pizza to serve 2, make slightly bigger portions of dough.
7 Keep out what you want to use immediately, and wrap the rest in clingfilm and
put in the freezer for future smug pizza-making time.