- Have you been searching for the perfect
homemade pizza dough recipe?
It's so easy, whips up really quick,
and you can make pizza whenever you want.
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where I, John Kanell, teach you how to make delicious
homemade dishes to share with your family and friends.
This homemade pizza dough will be ready before you know it.
So let's get started.
First off, we have to wake our little baby yeast up.
They're all tucked away in this package,
basically like freeze-dried into little granules,
and they need a nice warm environment to wake up in,
with a little bit of food.
So we want to use water that is warm, not cold, not hot.
Cold don't wake them up; hot will kill them.
So go for about a 100 degrees.
If you put your finger in, it should feel warm,
not scalding hot.
And I also like to use my mixing bowl,
but first, I warm it up by filling it up with hot water,
just because the glass is so cold,
it'll sap the heat out of that water in an instant.
So pour that out.
(water splashing)
There's a sink there.
Now I'm adding in 3/4 of a cup of warm water
between a 100-110 degrees.
I'm gonna add in half of a tablespoon of sugar.
The remaining half will be used later.
That's the food,
and I'll add one package of active dry yeast.
You could also use instant yeast for this as well.
Pour that out there.
It's usually still full of yeast.
We'll just open that package up, tip it up,
and give it a quick stir, stir, stir, stir.
106 degrees all stirred up.
Cover this up, let it hang out for like five minutes,
maybe seven.
You're looking for little bubbles to form
that let you know that the yeast has woken up,
and that pizza dough is gonna be on its way okay?
We'll be right back.
Okay five or so minutes later,
let's take a peek under the bonnet.
Oh, perfect.
Super, frothy, bubbly.
Those yeast are kicking.
So here's the deal.
This gets put aside for about a moment.
Here I have two cups 240 grams of all-purpose
or double zero flour.
And I'm gonna add 3/4 of a teaspoon of salt.
That pizza dough needs some flavor.
You could also add in like half a teaspoon
of dried rosemary.
You could add in oregano,
any herb you like,
even onion powder or garlic powder, you do you, okay.
The rest of the sugar, the remaining half
tablespoon just give it a whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk.
Okay, now everything's all set.
I'm taking out the stand mixer,
but you could totally do this by hand,
a little well in the middle.
It gets messy, but you could use a wooden spoon.
I just like using the stand mixer
since I have it and I can dust off this dough hook.
Almost never use it,
so it's in pristine condition.
Okay, let's get that mixer up.
Okay attach that dough hook right on there.
Okay here's the deal.
If you know the dough is not coming together,
and I'll talk about that in a moment,
just add a little bit more flour,
and you may have to, depending on the humidity,
X, Y, or Z you're measuring,
okay we're gonna go on low.
(gadget whirring)
Making a dough is always funny,
because at first, you're like,
"Oh my gosh this is going totally wrong.
"What's happening?"
and then it's like "Oh worked out, perfect."
So just keep going; don't lose faith.
(gadget whirring)
It's optional, but I can't help myself,
and let's tap some of this down.
Okay, now let the mixer do its thing.
It's gonna take a couple minutes,
so just be patient.
(gadget whirring)
See at first you thought,
"Oh my gosh that's way too much flour"
but then things incorporate.
It all works out.
Giving my dough a little blessing of water,
just because it actually seemed a bit dry.
You can add a bit more flour if it's wet.
You could add a little bit more water
if it seems dry after you mix it in.
(gadget whirring)
This is a cohesive ball, which is what you want.
Let's see right here.
It's a little sticky it's not too bad.
I'm gonna be adding a lot of flour
on to my well floured surface when I need this.
So this is just about right.
Take this away, clean surface
we'll sprinkle flour.
We're gonna get to kneading.
We don't need to knead this for very long,
because the mixer did a lot of the kneading for us,
but always good practice,
so just a little flour, sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.
Now that ball of precious, delicious dough out
and we're just going to work it
a little bit to help activate
all that delicious protein in there AKA the gluten.
And you can see this is actually pretty close already.
You want to be able to form it into a ball, done,
and then I can press down and it bounces back.
So it's bouncing back.
It's nice and neat.
Really it spent a lot of time in that mixer did it,
so it didn't need the kneading,
but if you're doing this by hand,
you definitely will need to knead the dough
for maybe four to five minutes
until it looks like this,
like a nice clean, bouncy little ball.
Now that our dough is kneaded,
we can put it aside,
get a big bowl out and add in a few tablespoons
of olive oil.
You could use a regular oil as well,
like a vegetable oil AKA soybean or canola oil.
Okay move it around.
This is where our dough is going to rise up,
plop the dough in here, kind of,
I like to grease the top a bit.
So it doesn't dry out.
Boys are gonna be so excited.
I was talking to my mom on the phone
and reminiscing about the homemade pizzas,
we would do together when I was growing up,
and the boys heard "Pizza."
They must have heard it at school,
because we haven't talked about pizza that much,
and they've been asking,
"Are we having pizza for dinner?
"Is it pizza night?"
So tonight is actually gonna be pizza night.
They're gonna be so excited,
but first I'm gonna cover our dough up
and leave it in a warm, cozy place.
I'm actually gonna put mine in the proofing drawer,
but if you don't have a proofing drawer,
just turn your oven on to 120.
Let it heat up.
Turn it off and then plop your dough in.
It'll be really nice and warm and no drafts or anything.
Okay in you go.
My dough had time to rise
and I might have fiddled with it off camera
and like poked it a bit.
I couldn't help myself,
but that's what it looks like now.
It doubled in size, looks good to me.
What we're gonna do now is punch it down,
punch, punch, punch, punch, punch,
and then we're going to roll it out onto
a lightly floured surface.
I'm not gonna do the crazy acrobatics.
I am not that person, although
I might aspire to be secretly, sshh!
Let's liberally sprinkle your surface with flour.
I'm gonna take out pizza right now.
Now we're going to place it over here.
Let's do the flour at the top as well.
(playful hooting)
Roll that pizza dough out.
Now once you get to a good size,
you can gingerly lift it up,
and just stretch it out a bit.
You can be kind of fancy and do the whole twirling thing,
but that's not me.
Okay that's nice, nice and thin in the middle
with a thicker crust.
Once your dough is rolled out, it's time to transfer it
to the surface you're gonna work on.
I used to have a pizza stone.
I don't know where it went,
but if you have one go ahead and use that.
I'm just gonna use a regular old cookie sheet today.
And you could put cornmeal on the bottom.
I do not like the mouthfeel of that cornmeal though,
so I'm not gonna do that.
For the edge of the crust,
you could fold it under,
you could pinch it over.
I think I'm gonna pinch mine over
just a little bit, so we have that nice border,
and now we can just give it one final kind
of stretch out a bit.
I'm gonna give my hands a wash,
and then we're on to the next step.
I'm gonna brush the surface
with just a little bit of oil,
just lightly brushing it.
Especially the crust.
If you're making a white pizza,
you could infuse the olive oil with some garlic
and season that and it would be good to go,
but we're gonna do a red pizza.
It's like the boys' first homemade pizza,
so it has to be a classic cheese pizza for them.
I'm also gonna dock the pie just a little bit, pie.
It'll stop it from bubbling up so much.
I actually like the bubbles,
but what if the boys don't?
Spit on some of your pizza sauce.
This is kind of up to you,
but I think it should be a thin coating.
You're not having it pool up.
The last step is to sprinkle some cheese
and whatever toppings you like,
liberally sprinkle that cheese on top.
If this were my pizza,
I would have some mushrooms and peppers on it,
but then no one else would eat it.
So I'm just adding some low moisture fresh mozzarella
on to here that I shredded just off-camera.
It's gonna go into the oven at 425
until the cheese has melted and it's nice and golden
about 12 minutes or so.
Totally depends on your setup.
So keep an eye on it.
All right this pizza is for the boys,
but let's get real.
Most of its for us, sorry kids,
including the first bite.
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Lots of delicious savory meals
to delight your palate,
but now it's time for a bite.
That's nice (laughing).
The boys are gonna be so excited.
They love pizza!
They call it pizza.
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