Last night I made homemade pizza and I was so happy with how the dough came out that I decided to post the recipe online! This recipe originally came from my MIL, Linda, but I've changed it just a tiny bit. It yields 2 pizzas. It's super quick and easy... you can start this dough and have your pizzas in the oven cooking in less than 20 minutes.
Pizza Dough
2 T yeast
1/2 c. water
1 1/2 T sugar
1 1/8 c milk
1/2 t salt
1 1/2 T sugar
3 T oil
1 1/2 c wheat flour (white wheat works very well here)
2 c bread flour
Place water in bowl and heat in microwave for 30 seconds (this is quicker for me than waiting for my tap water to warm up). Pour yeast into water and let sit for 5 minutes. Add first sugar and let sit another 5 minutes. While you are doing this, put milk into microwave and cook for one minute on high. Pull out of the microwave and add salt, second sugar and oil to the milk. Once both bowls are ready, pour them all into your mixing bowl (I use my kitchenaid mixer with the dough hook attachment), add flour and mix up. I let my kitchenaid knead the dough for 3-5 minutes. If you are not using a mixer, you'll need to knead the dough by hand.
Spread the dough into two greased pizza pans. Top with sauce (I buy generic pizza sauce in a bottle at walmart for $0.88), mozzarella cheese and your favorite toppings. Bake at 425 for 10 to 15 minutes.
You can use all white flour if you want to. I used white wheat flour, which I'm finding I can substitute into a lot of my recipes and my kids still like it. And for all you food storage junkies out there, the original recipe called for 1 c. water and 1/3 c. powdered milk, but I prefer the taste when I use real milk. Either way will work.
