Pizza Crust

Posted by christinmk z5 WA on Fri, Aug 1, 08 at 12:57

Pizza Crust

This recipe is for homemade pizza crust. It delicious! Once you taste homemade pizza you'll never order again!

Ingredients:

1 Tablespoon yeast
1/2 cup warm water
1 1/2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
2 T. Olive Oil

Place the yeast in a small bowl and pour warm water over it. Let stand for five minutes to activate, then stir. Mix flour and salt in separate bowl. Make a well in the center of flour mixture then pur yeast mixture and 1 T. of Olive Oil in. Stir together with fork, then with hands. If not all of the ingredints are sticking together, or the dough is very stiff, add a Tablespoon of water or more extra.

Place on a lightly floured surface and knead for ten minutes. Form into a ball and rub the extra Olive Oil over it. Put in bowl and cover with plastic wrap or clean dishcloth. Place in a SLIGHTLY warm oven and let rise for an hour, until aprox. doubled in size. Place on a lightly floured suface and roll out to about 1/4 in. thickness (less if you like crispy crust, more if you like it thick). Place on a circular sheet and roll up ends to make crust.

I bake my crust first before putting toppings on. Bake at 350 degrees until firm and slightly golden (I also like to put it directly on the oven rack for a few minutes to get because I like the bottom crispy). Then put your desired toppings on pizza (on baking sheet) and let heat up a few more minutes.

Enjoy!