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    Homemade Pizza Dough

    Published: Sep 3, 2021 by Valya's Taste of Home · 12 Comments

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    I've been making Homemade Pizza Dough for many years. I personally prefer homemade dough for homemade pizzas over restaurant-bought pizza or store-bought dough. Because, firstly, preparing food from scratch at home is the essence of a true taste of the home experience. Secondly, I am at peace knowing that it has been prepared cleanly and with the freshest ingredients possible for that unbeatable delicious taste.

    Also, it's always a handy thing to have some pizza dough already made for those busy days you can’t possibly fit in much prep time. Or for those days when your energy is spent, or you don’t feel like spending too much time making a more complex dinner recipe. When anticipating a time-strapped day in advance, all you would have to do is take the dough out of the freezer the night before to thaw and you can make quite a few different things with it.

    I've been making Homemade Pizza Dough for many years. I personally prefer homemade dough for homemade pizzas over restaurant bought. First, preparing it from scratch at home is the essence of the taste of home. Second, because I know that it has been prepared cleanly with the freshest ingredients for an unbeatable, delicious taste.

    This dough recipe is good for two 13" pizzas. When you make the dough on the same day you will be baking a pizza, and this portion turns out a bit much for your family size, you’ve got the perfect opportunity to freeze the rest to have on hand later. Knead the second half of the dough into a neat ball, glaze some olive oil over it, and place it in a freezer bag. This pizza dough can be frozen for up to a couple of months to be enjoyed just as much at a later time.

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    • 📋 Recipe Ingredients
    • 🔪 Recipe Instructions
    • 💭 Tips
    • Recipe Card
    • 🍞 Similar Recipes
    • Comments

    📋 Recipe Ingredients

    • All-purpose organic flour
    • Organic sugar
    • Yeast
    • Sea salt
    • Grass-fed salted butter
    • Organic whole milk
    • Water

    🔪 Recipe Instructions

    How to Make Homemade Pizza Dough

    Place all the ingredients into a bread machine maker pan: flour, sugar, salt, dry active yeast, and room temperature butter.

    Add lukewarm water mixed with milk. Set the bread machine to dough cycle. Place the bread machine pan into the bread machine maker (refer to the Amazon Shop page about what kind of bread maker machine I have and been using for over 10 years if you need one simply click on the bread maker picture to order one for yourself).

    It takes about 30 minutes for the dough cycle to mix the dough. For the rest of the dough cycle, the pizza dough will be rising for about one hour.

    After the dough rises, transfer the dough onto a lightly floured working surface (I use a large cutting board).

    Knead the dough and form it into a ball shape.

    Split the dough ball into half. One half of the dough is plenty for one 13” pizza (I make two pizzas at a time, and I do use 2 halves at once).

    💭 Tips

    How to Freeze Homemade Pizza Dough

    If this portion is too much for the size of your family, you can freeze the second half of the dough.

    Just coat it with olive oil, and place it into a freezing bag. You can freeze the dough for a couple of months.

    How to Thaw Frozen Pizza Dough

    Place the frozen pizza dough in the refrigerator overnight.

    When ready to make pizza, remove the dough from the refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature for 30 minutes on the counter.

    I've been making Homemade Pizza Dough for many years. I personally prefer homemade dough for homemade pizzas over restaurant bought. First, preparing it from scratch at home is the essence of the taste of home. Second, because I know that it has been prepared cleanly with the freshest ingredients for an unbeatable, delicious taste.

    Recipe Card

    I've been making Homemade Pizza Dough for many years. I personally prefer homemade dough for homemade pizzas over restaurant bought. First, preparing it from scratch at home is the essence of the taste of home. Second, because I know that it has been prepared cleanly with the freshest ingredients for an unbeatable, delicious taste.

    Homemade Pizza Dough

    I've been making Homemade Pizza Dough for many years. I personally prefer homemade dough for homemade pizzas over restaurant bought. First, preparing it from scratch at home is the essence of the taste of home. Second, because I know that it has been prepared cleanly with the freshest ingredients for an unbeatable, delicious taste.
    5 from 8 votes
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    Keyword: bread machine pizza dough, easy homemade pizza dough, fluffy pizza dough recipe, homemade pizza dough, pizza dough from scratch
    Prep Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
    Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
    Servings: 2 pizza dough
    Author: Valya's Taste of Home

    Ingredients

    • 5 cups - organic all-purpose flour
    • 2 tbsp. – organic sugar
    • 1 tbsp. – dry active yeast
    • 1 tsp. – sea salt
    • 2 tbsp. – grass-fed salted butter (room temperature)
    • ½ cup – lukewarm organic whole milk
    • 1½ cups - lukewarm water

    Instructions

    How to Make Homemade Pizza Dough

    • Place all the ingredients into a bread machine maker pan: flour, sugar, salt, dry active yeast, and room temperature butter.
    • Add lukewarm water mixed with milk. Set the bread machine to dough cycle. Place the bread machine pan into the bread machine maker (refer to the Amazon Shop page about what kind of bread maker machine I have and been using for over 10 years if you need one simply click on the bread maker picture to order one for yourself).
    • It takes about 30 minutes for the dough cycle to mix the dough. For the rest of the dough cycle, the pizza dough will be rising which takes about one hour.
    • After the dough rises, transfer the dough onto a lightly floured working surface (I use a large cutting board).
    • Knead the dough and form it into a ball shape.
    • Split the dough ball into half. One half of the dough is plenty for one 13” pizza (I make two pizzas at a time, and I do use 2 halves at once).

    How to Freeze Homemade Pizza Dough

    • If this portion is too much for the size of your family, you can freeze the second half of the dough.
    • Just coat it with olive oil and place it into a freezing bag. You can freeze the dough for a couple of months.

    How to Thaw Frozen Pizza Dough

    • Place the frozen pizza dough in the refrigerator overnight.
    • When ready to make pizza, remove the dough from the refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature for 30 minutes on the counter.
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    I've been making Homemade Pizza Dough for many years. I personally prefer homemade dough for homemade pizzas over restaurant bought. First, preparing it from scratch at home is the essence of the taste of home. Second, because I know that it has been prepared cleanly with the freshest ingredients for an unbeatable, delicious taste.

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    I've been making Homemade Pizza Dough for many years. I personally prefer homemade dough for homemade pizzas over restaurant bought. First, preparing it from scratch at home is the essence of the taste of home. Second, because I know that it has been prepared cleanly with the freshest ingredients for an unbeatable, delicious taste.

    This recipe was originally posted on January 28, 2016 (original picture below).  I tweaked it a bit since then like using good quality ingredients. This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure.

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    1. William Voelker says

      September 22, 2021 at 9:01 am

      5 stars
      Its a very good recipe thank you

      Reply
      • Valya's Taste of Home says

        September 23, 2021 at 8:56 pm

        I'm glad you like it. Thank you for your feedback!

        Reply
    2. Angelika says

      September 12, 2021 at 1:38 pm

      Hello. You did not mention when does milk and butter(melted, maybe) should be added.
      Thank you.

      Reply
      • Valya's Taste of Home says

        September 13, 2021 at 10:35 pm

        All ingredients go all at once into the bread maker or a mixer bowl. No, butter does not have to be melted, but using room temperature butter gets you better results.

        Reply
    3. Sam says

      March 02, 2019 at 6:46 am

      Hi can we use our hands for making if we dont have a bread making machine

      Reply
      • Valya of Valya's Taste of Home says

        March 03, 2019 at 12:49 am

        Absolutely!

        Reply
    4. Jessi says

      April 28, 2017 at 2:16 pm

      5 stars
      This dough recipe is AMAZING!!!! Thank you so much for posting this, t. Valya!! I made this and used these toppings: sauce, cheese, bacon, bbq chicken, red onion slices, & spinach. Pre heated the oven to 500°F and then baked for 15 minutes. It turned out AMAZING!!! NOTHING compared to the pizza places around town! Homemade is BEST!!!

      Reply
      • valya'stasteofhome.com says

        April 28, 2017 at 10:55 pm

        True that, nothing beats homemade meals! I'm glad you liked the recipe and thank you very much for amazing review Jessi! 🙂

        Reply
    5. Victoria says

      February 23, 2016 at 4:47 pm

      oh my! this recipe is AMAZING! Thank you SO much t. Valya!!! i used 2 tbsp. of olive oil instead of butter. It turned out AMAZING! This recipe is a keeper! The dough came out so squeaky, puffy, & soft! I was SO amazed with the results! Husband approved and said to make it again please. I will be making homemade pizza very often now! Thank you SO SO much again! Please keep posting more recipes! Your blog is amazing! May God bless you, t. Valya!

      Reply
      • valya'stasteofhome.com says

        February 23, 2016 at 5:17 pm

        Aww...that's awesome! I'm so happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing your amazing review! This is the only pizza dough recipe approved by my family too. I don't think oils make any difference, but I'm eager to try adding olive oil instead of butter next time I make pizza dough. Thank you for the idea Victoria, and thank you for visiting my blog and making my recipes. Gods blessings to you too! 🙂

        Reply
    6. Kristina says

      February 02, 2016 at 4:11 pm

      Thank-you for the recipe! It's great to know that it's tried and true!

      Reply
      • valya'stasteofhome.com says

        February 03, 2016 at 8:07 pm

        You are very welcome Kristina. Enjoy! 🙂

        Reply

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