How to Make a Simple Pizza Dough

Here is how to make an easy pizza dough. Enjoy!

Supplies you will need to make a pizza dough:

4 Cups - All Purpose Flour

1.5 Cups Warm Water

1 Tablespoon Dry Active Yeast

1 Teaspoon Salt

1 Teaspoon Sugar

Cooking Spray

1 Large Mixing Bowl

1 - 2 C. measuring cup

1 set of measuring cups and spoons

2 Forks

1 wooden spoon to mix or using your hands is fine (hands are your best tools)

1 Kitchen towel

Have your ingredients, measuring cups and mixing bowl at your workstation.

The recipe needs to have exact measurements on each step.

In the 2-Cup measuring cup mix warm water and sugar with a fork.

• 1.5 Cups Warm Water
• 1 Teaspoon Sugar

Mix dry active yeast into your water and sugar mixture. Stir with fork for a few seconds.

• 1 Tablespoon Dry Active Yeast

Let mixture sit. The mixture should make bubbles letting you know the yeast is activating.

• 4 Cups All Purpose Flour
• 1 Teaspoon Salt

• Combine your wet yeast mixture into the large mixing bowl with your flour mixture
• Mix well by hand or with a wooden spoon
• Dough should start pulling away from the side of the bowl
• If dough is too dry and not coming together you can add a little water at a time to form dough.

• Use your hands to shape the dough into a ball.
• Dust your hands with flour to prevent dough from sticking to them.

• Let dough rise for 2 hours for best results.
• The dough should double in size.