Homemade Pizza Dough

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.

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.

📋 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.

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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.

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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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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.