Simple thick crust pizza dough. Pizza dough is the foundation and every great pizza begins with a great pizza crust. Some like thin and crisp pizza crust, while others prefer thick and soft pizza crust. Frozen pizza dough is certainly convenient, but from-scratch crust has a delicious flavor and texture that only comes from homemade. Simple thick crust pizza dough

You can cook Simple thick crust pizza dough using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Simple thick crust pizza dough
  1. Prepare 17 1/2 oz of AP flour.
  2. Prepare 2 tsp of kosher salt.
  3. It’s 1 packet (7 g) of instant yeast.
  4. Prepare 1/2 cup of olive oil.
  5. It’s 12 1/4 oz of water.

Combine flour, salt, yeast, and olive oil and whisk to combine. The dough should be very gooey. 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 That's why our pizza dough only goes through one, short rise time if you want a thick crust pizza and NO rise time if you want a thin and crispy crust pizza.

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..

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. 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. Using the heels of your hands, push the dough away with a rolling motion.