When it comes to making pizza at home, you have quite a few options. There are frozen dough balls and precooked shells, those fresh-ish ones sold in the deli aisle, powdered mixes, “fresh” dough balls in the refrigerator section and even some pizza shops will sell you their dough. Buy, why go through all of that when you can make great pizza dough at home? We have made this recipe many times and have never had it let us down. We even use it for our garbage bread recipe. It takes only six common ingredients and I bet you have most of them in the house right now!
When it comes to preparing the actual pizza, I either hand stretch or roll out the dough. I partially cook the dough on a pizza stone in the oven at 475F. You need the hot oven to get that great brick oven pizza experience at home. It only needs to go in for about 5-6 minutes which ensures that your dough will be cooked all the way through without burning your cheese and toppings. Once you add the sauce, cheese and toppings, it will only need another 5-6 minutes to be done. I like to let it rest for a few minutes before eating.
Take a look at these results!
Above: pizza in the oven prior to cooking
Below: Finished pizza
