Recipe: Yummy Simple thick crust pizza dough

Simple thick crust pizza dough. This homemade pizza dough recipe is great for beginners and yields a soft and chewy pizza crust. What a treat for my and husbanad and me. I've never made dough from scratch before and this couldn't be easier.

The only thing I change is the cooking. Pizza dough starts with a basic bread dough. We like to add a little olive oil to our dough to give added flavor and to make the dough nice and supple to work with. You can have Simple thick crust pizza dough using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Simple thick crust pizza dough

1. You need 17 1/2 oz of AP flour.
2. It's 2 tsp of kosher salt.
3. Prepare 1 packet (7 g) of instant yeast.
4. You need 1/2 cup of olive oil.
5. Prepare 12 1/4 oz of water.

Combine flour, salt, yeast, and olive oil and whisk to combine. The dough should be very gooey. Be it thick or thin, a good crust starts with a slow-rising dough. Plan ahead by mixing dough in the morning and letting it rise, refrigerated, all day long.

Simple thick crust pizza dough instructions

1. Combine flour, salt, yeast, and olive oil and whisk to combine..
2. Whisk in the water..
3. With a wooden spoon, mix well for about 3 minutes. The dough should be very gooey..
4. Cover dough in plastic wrap and set aside for at least 6 hours, but as long as 15 hours is fine, supposedly..
5. Preheat the oven to 550F..
6. Grease up a baking pan with olive oil. I used a 10" x 14" tray..
7. Slide the dough into the pan. Use a greased spoon or spatula to stretch the dough to cover the pan. Try not to push out too much of the gas that's been trapped in the dough..
8. Top however you like, and bake for 20-25 minutes, until the crust is golden toasty brown..

Pizza dough is simple to make, and once it's stretched out you just have to top it and bake it in a hot oven. So you've got a relaxed pizza dough waiting in the bowl and you're ready start stretching out the dough. Don't worry if the edge (or what will be the crust) isn't thicker than the center — the. Making a thick crust pizza takes a little longer but it's worth it. **To knead the dough, add just enough flour to the dough and your hands to keep the dough from sticking. Flatten dough and fold it toward you.