FINALLY!!! I can post this recipe and tell you guys its the only recipe you’ll ever need to make home made pizza!! This is my moms pizza recipe shes been using for past 30 + years and I finally got her to to make it with me and measure out EVERYTHING. This recipe is so dam easy you’ll be wondering why you didn’t try it soonerThis recipe makes 1 large, so feel free to double the recipe if needed. You can add as many toppings as you like or just keep it simple with plain old cheese pizza.
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My Moms Pizza
Ingredients
Pizza dough
- 2 Packets active dry yeast 4 & ½ tsp
- ½ cup warm water
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp Italian seasoning
- 4 tbsp oil
- ½ cup additional water for mixing
Toppings
- 2 cups sauce of choice I use Rao’s marinara
- 2 cups cheese I use Cabot’s sharp cheddar, yellow and white
Instructions
Pizza dough
- In the bowl combine the warm water, sugar and yeast. Allow the mixture to sit for five minutes.
- Next add the oil, Italian seasoning, flour and salt into the yeast mixture. Mix everything together and slowly add the additional 1/4 cup of water and continue to combine the flour to make a dough. *Remember that the dough will still be sticky and will stick to your fingers when you try to pull it apart. You can mix this together in a stand mixer with a hook or mix it with a wooden spoon or even your hands the best tool!
- Grease the bowl, turn the dough to coat it in oil. Cover the bowl with a towel and a let the dough rise at room temperature until doubled, 30mins. I put my bowl in a preheated oven at 200°F.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Sprinkle some flour on a work surface and lightly punch the dough down, then turn it out onto the floured surface. Use floured hands to start pulling the dough up and around, gathering the ends together and forming a smooth ball on one side. Turn the ball over, so the top is smooth. If the dough is still a bit sticky when you go to roll it out, just sprinkle on a little more flour.
- Take the ball of dough and flatten it with your hands or using a rolling pin on a slightly floured work surface. Starting at the center and working outwards, use your fingertips to press the dough to 1/2-inch thick. Turn and stretch the dough until it will not stretch further, continue to stretch it until it reaches the desired diameter – 10 to 12 inches.
- Bake the pizza dough for 7 mins in the oven, you want to cook the dough for a little bit before adding the toppings, this results into a fluffier pizza dough.
- Add a thin layer of sauce, followed by cheese, toppings and top it off with more cheese. Place in oven at 380°F until cheese is nice and bubble and crust is golden brown. 12-15mins. Enjoy!
Notes
- Pre heat your oven to 200F and once the temperature is reached at 200 turn oven off.
- I love to add extra dollops of sauce on top right before it goes in the oven for a extra saucy pizza.
- You can replace the all purpose flour with whole wheat flour and the pizza comes out great as well!
- If your yeast doesn’t get foamy its gone bad, if it gets foamy, this verifies your yeast is still alive.
