Real Italian Pizza Dough Recipes

REAL ITALIAN PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to the lowest setting possible.
• Combine 4 cups flour and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment; turn mixer on low speed. Crumble yeast into small pieces and add to the flour. Slowly pour in water. Scrape the sides to make sure all flour is incorporated and mix until dough begins to pull away from the sides and form a ball. Drizzle in oil and mix until fully incorporated.
• Knead on low speed for 5 or 6 minutes, adding 1 to 2 tablespoons extra flour if needed. Remove dough from the bowl and use your hands to form a ball. Return dough to the bowl and score the top with an "x." Cover with a damp cloth.
• Turn oven off and place dough in the oven to rise for at least 1 hour, or up to 8 hours.
• Remove dough from the oven and reattach the bowl to the stand mixer. Uncover and punch down dough. Knead on low speed for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place a pizza stone or tray on the bottom oven rack and preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Cut dough into 4 equal pieces and roll each one into ball. Dust with flour if needed. Place balls on a sheet pan and cover with a damp cloth. Roll out each ball into a 9-inch circle and top with desired toppings (no more than 1 cup sauce per pizza).
• Place pizza on the pizza stone in the preheated oven. Immediately lower the temperature to 410 degrees F (210 degrees C) and bake for 10 to 12 minutes; actual length of time will depend on your toppings. Repeat to make remaining pizzas.

AUTHENTIC ITALIAN PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• How to make homemade pizza dough
• Place 600 g Tipo 00 flour in a large mixing bowl. Tipo 00 flour has a much higher protein content than our conventional all-purpose flour. We have had good experiences with the Tipo 00 flour "Farina Speciale Per Pizza" and the original Caputo Farina 00. If you do not have tipo 00 flour at home all-purpose flour can be used.
• Provide 2.5 cups (600 ml) of lukewarm water in a measuring cup.
• Add 3 - 5 g brewer's yeast and 30 g salt and stir well with the water in the measuring cup. Alternatively, fresh baker's yeast can be used. In traditional Neapolitan recipes, very little yeast is generally used to obtain a finer taste.
• Pour the water-yeast salt mixture into the mixing bowl and combine with the flour to a dough. For this it is enough to stir with a fork.
• Cover the dough with a damp kitchen towel and leave for 20 to 30 minutes. This step is very important for a good pizza dough. In the resting period of the dough, first protein chains are formed.
• After the resting period, stir the dough for about 3 minutes with a kitchen mixer with dough hook at the lowest level. If desired, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. According to "Pasta per la pizza numero 328" the dough should be kneaded by hand, but this may also be due to the age of the recipe. Stirred with a kitchen mixer, the dough is in our experience much smoother. However, the mixer should have at least 350 watts of power. Alternatively, of course, a food processor or a Thermomix can be used to stir the dough.
• Gradually add the remaining 400g of flour and continue stirring at the lowest level. The process should take about 5 minutes.
• When all the flour has been absorbed by the dough, stir once more for 2 minutes. This time, however, on the second level of the kitchen mixer.
• Divide the dough into two portions of 800 g and form one ball each. Place the dough balls in two floured mixing bowls and cover with a damp kitchen towel.
• Let the dough rest
• Let the dough rest in a warm room for at least 6 hours. Even better are 24 hours.
• After the resting time use the dough immediatelly or store cool and dark. For example in the refrigerator.
• If necessary, take out 270 g of dough per pizza. The dough should be removed from the refrigerator 1 to 2 hours before the intended preparation.
• Shape the Pizza dough
• Put flour on a clean work surface. Form the now room warm dough into a ball and press it flat. Form with your hands into a round and thin dough. When doing so, place flour under the dough and press it from the inside to the outside.
• If the dough has a reasonably round shape, it can be lifted up the edge and turned like a steering wheel. By its own weight, the dough pulls almost by itself. By the way, a rolling pin should by no means be used to roll it out, since it takes away the airiness of the dough and the pizza does not rise well in the oven.
• The dough should now be about 12.5 inch (32 cm) in diameter and be very thin. Put plenty of flour on a pizza board or a pizza shovel and pull the dough on top.
• When everything is done correctly, you now have a very large and thin and perfect round pizza. Now it just has to be topped with the desired ingredients.
• Top the homemade Pizza
• As base topping homemade tomato sauce is used. Ideally, the tomato sauce is made from sun-ripened Italian San Marzano tomatoes or at least Roma tomatoes. In Naples, only San Marzano tomatoes from the Agro Nocerino Sarnese growing region are used.
• Spread the tomato sauce evenly with a tablespoon and leave an edge of about 2 centimeters wide. The other ingredients can be chosen freely to taste.
• At the example of the classic Margherita from Naples, it is only topped with the tomato sauce, mozzarella fior di latte or buffalo mozzarella and fresh basil leaves.
• How to bake Pizza
• Position the rack in the center of the oven. For the best baking result a pizza stone is needed. Place the stone on the rack and preheat the oven to 570 degrees Fahrenheit (300 degrees Celsius). If the oven supports only lower temperatures use the highest temperature available and use the bake mode setting. Her you can find a deatiled guide for baking pizza at home.
• When the oven has reached the temperature, bake the pizza on the stone for about 5 to 8 minutes. How long it takes to bake depends on your oven and the preheating time. If you use lower temperature or much toppings the baking time increases.

ITALIAN PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• Stir yeast and sugar into lukewarm water, using a fork. Let stand in a warm place until a creamy layer forms on top of the water, about 10 minutes.
• Mix flour and salt in a large bowl. Mix olive oil into flour and stir for 2 minutes. Pour yeast mixture and beaten egg into flour mixture and stir to make a stiff dough. Turn dough out onto a floured work surface and knead until springy and smooth, about 8 minutes. Place dough into a floured bowl and cover with a piece of plastic wrap wiped with a thin film of olive oil.
• Let dough rise until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch down and roll out to desired shape.

THE BEST PIZZA DOUGH EVER

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in warm water in a bowl.
• Stir in oil, sugar, salt and FOUR cups of the flour.
• Beat until smooth.
• Turn dough onto a floured surface.
• Knead in enough flour to make dough easy to handle.
• Knead til smooth 3 to 5 minutes.
• Place in a greased bowl.
• Cover and let rise in a warm place til double in size (about 45 minutes).
• Add your favorite toppings of tomato sauce, seasonings like oregano, sweet basil, chili powder, and toppings like bacon, ham, pineapple, pepperoni, mushrooms, green pepper or cooked hamburger and top with mozzarella cheese.
• Bake pizzas 425°F for 25-30 minutes.

AN ITALIAN'S CLASSIC PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• In a small bowl combine salt, honey, olive oil, and cool water.
• Mix well and set aside.
• In a separate bowl, combine warm water and yeast. Allow to proof for ten minutes.
• After proofing combine honey mixture and yeast in one large mixing bowl.
• Add flour, one cup at a time, into the combined liquid mixture. Dough is an art - depending on your paradigm you may want to work this with your hands, add a T of water if it is dry.
• Place dough ball on lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
• Place dough in covered buttered (melted) bowl and allow dough to rest for 30 minutes. A slightly warmed oven (90 degree) is great.
• Divide into two equal sized dough balls.
• If using a pizza stone, place stone in oven and preheat oven to 450 for at least ten minutes.
• Roll out into two pies and add your favorite sauce and topping combinations.