Martin pizza

Backed a Italian pizza better than the corner restaurant

Good

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

heat your oven to 150°F (66°C). Turn the oven off, place the dough inside, and keep the door slightly ajar. This will be a warm environment for your dough to rise. After about 30 minutes, close the oven door to trap the air inside with the rising dough. When it’s doubled in size, remove from the oven 2

Step 2

1 use this instant yeast. The Platinum yeast is fantastic because its careful formula strengthens your dough and makes working with yeast simple. You only need 1 standard packet of yeast (2 and 1/4 teaspoons) to get the job done.

Step 3

2 Water: I tested this pizza dough recipe with different amounts of water. 1 and 1/3 cups is the perfect amount. Use warm water to cut down on rise time, about 100- 110°F. Anything over 130°F kills the yeast.

Step 4

3 Flour: Use unbleached all-purpose white flour in this recipe. Bleaching the flour strips away some of the protein, which will affect how much water the flour absorbs. You can substitute bread flour for a chewier pizza crust. If you love whole grain bread, try this whole wheat pizza dough instead.

Step 5

4 Oil: A couple Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil adds wonderful flavor to the dough. Don't forget to brush the dough with olive oil before adding the toppings, which prevents the crust from tasting soggy.

Step 6

5 Salt: Salt adds necessary flavor

Step 7

6 Sugar: 1 Tablespoon of sugar increases the yeast's activity and tenderizes the dough, especially when paired with a little olive oil

Step 8

7 Cornmeal: Cornmeal isn't in the dough, but it's used to dust the pizza pan. Cornmeal gives the pizza crust a little extra flavor and crisp. Most delivery pizzas you enjoy have cornmeal on the bottom crust!

Step 9

1 Make the dough: Mix the dough ingredients together by hand or use a hand-held or stand mixer. Do this in steps as described in the written recipe below.

Step 10

2 Knead: Knead by hand or with your mixer. I like doing this by hand. If you're new to yeasted doughs, my How to Knead Dough post and video can help with this step.

Step 11

3 Rise: Place dough into a greased mixing bowl, cover tightly, and set aside to rise for about 90 minutes or overnight in the refrigerator.

Step 12

4 Punch & shape: Punch down risen dough to release air bubbles. Divide in 2. Roll dough out into a 17.0k 12-inch circle. Cover and rest a you prep the pizza toppings.

Step 13

Top it: Top with favorite pizza toppings mozzarellacheese peperoni Italian sausage cut in cube bacon greenpeppers mushroom onion. Bake: Bake pizza at a very high temperature for only about 15 minutes.