Want to make your own pizza but you’re afraid the dough is too challenging? This pizza dough recipe is so easy that we taught our kids!
My husband and I started making pizza from the time we were married, but there is a big difference between our pizza then and now! We used to buy the box of pizza mix, but after we started baking our own bread from scratch when our first child was still a baby, we realized that we could easily make our pizzas from scratch.
As our children grew up, they gradually took over more and more of the pizza-making responsibilities until they were solely responsible for it as teenagers. As early as age five or six, however, they were using a dull knife to slice fresh mushrooms for the pizza.
After moving to our homestead in 2002, we quickly learned to make our own mozzarella with our goat milk, so our pizza is now totally homegrown and handmade. Other toppings include pork sausage from our American Guinea Hogs, as well as vegetables from our garden.
Our pizza dough recipe is below. Depending upon the toppings you choose, you can make your pizza as healthy or as decadent as you like!
Pizza Dough Recipe
Makes 2 pizzas
1 1/2 c. water
1 T. yeast
1 T. sugar
1 t. salt
2 T. olive oil
4 to 5 c. flour
Mix all of the above ingredients in a bowl until it forms a ball and doesn’t stick to the sides of your mixing bowl. I usually use a stand mixer with a dough hook, but for years, we did this by hand.
Letting it rise is optional, but doing so for 30 to 60 minutes will make the dough easier to work with.
Divide the dough in half. Stretch and roll out each ball of dough on your pizza pan. For years, my favorite pizza pan was a stone, but a few years ago I bought a cast iron pizza pan, and it totally stole my heart as it makes an even crispier crust.
Cover the dough with sauce and toppings of your choice. Whether you use a jar of all natural pasta sauce or your own canned pizza sauce made with homegrown tomatoes and vegetables, this is so much better for you — and less expensive — than take-out pizza. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 400 degrees.
*Note: These Nutrition Facts reflect a single serving of crust, assuming you cut each pizza into eight slices. The toppings you include will increase calories and nutrients.
Here is more information about learning to make your own cheese.
Can you freeze this?
You can freeze dough. It won’t rise as much as it would if you had not frozen it, but with pizza dough, that’s really not a big deal.
Your recipes are always easy, simple ingredients, and delicious. Do you have a cookbook out that I missed?
Most of my books have recipes in them. I say that my book Homegrown and Handmade is like a DIY book on steroids. I don’t just teach you to make pizza. I teach you to grow the tomatoes and make the sauce, and how to raise the goats, milk them, and make the mozzarella. And how to raise the pigs to make the sausage. You get the idea!
Ecothrifty was about 1/3 recipes, but it is now out of print, although the ebook is still available.
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