The Perfect Pizza Crust From Scratch
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Does your family love to make homemade pizza but you just haven’t found the recipe for the best pizza crust from scratch yet? This recipe will help!
Pizza Crust From Scratch
We make pizza at least once a week. This recipe for pizza crust from scratch can be made the day you want to use it or made ahead and frozen. It has become one of our favorite pizza dough recipes and it is very versatile. You can make it with white flour, whole wheat flour, or half and half. It turns out perfect every time.
One recipe makes a perfect amount to fill a jelly roll size pan, with the crust not too thick or too thin. You could also use one recipe to make two 12″ pizzas. Whatever size you make, this is a pizza dough that you should try!
I use the bread machine to mix up a single batch or my Bosch mixer to quadruple the recipe, and freeze the other batches in freezer ziploc bags. The day that you are making pizza just get a bag from the freezer and let thaw in the refrigerator.
The Perfect Pizza Crust From Scratch
What You Need:
- 1 cup warm water
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 2 t. sucanat (or other natural type sugar)
- 1 t. sea salt
- 3 cups flour (I use 100% fresh ground wheat, a mix of 1 cup hard red and 2 cups of hard white)
- 1 t. dried Italian seasoning
- 1 1/2 t. dry yeast
In a small bowl, combine the yeast, sugar, and water.
In another bowl, combine the dry ingredients.
Then mix the dry and other ingredients together until all are blended. Knead the dough and add more flour as needed so it’s not sticky.
Let the dough rest in a warm place for about 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough into one large rectangular crust or into 2 12 inch crusts, place on a cookie or pizza sheet.
Bake the crust for about 5 to 10 minutes before you add the sauce. You can add any sauce you like, home-canned pizza sauce works great! After you baked the crust, add the sauce and then toppings.
Top with all your favorite toppings! Continue to bake until your cheese is completely melted.
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The Perfect Pizza Dough From Scratch
Looking for the best pizza crust for homemade pizza? This one is so easy!
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm water
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
- 1 1/2 teaspoon dry yeast
Instructions
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In a small bowl, combine the water, yeast, and sugar.
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In another bowl, combine the dry ingredients.
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Add all of the ingredients together and mix. Knead the dough together once all the ingredients have been mixed. Add more flour if needed.
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Let the dough rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.
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Roll out the dough into one large retangular crust or into 2 12 inch crusts, place on a cookie or pizza sheet.
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Bake the crust for about 5 to 10 minutes before you add the sauce. You can add any sauce you like, home canned pizza sauce works great! After you baked the crust, add the sauce and then toppings.
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Top with all your favorite toppings! Continue to bake until your cheese is completely melted.
Love pizza? Here are some other recipes your family will love!
- Make Ahead and Freeze Pizza Dough
- Pizza Roll Ups Recipe
- The 30 Minute Pizza Recipe
- Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe
- Fruit Pizza Dessert Recipe
Enjoy!
Until next time, Julie
Julie is Merissa’s mom and she’s committed to living a frugal and simple lifestyle. Julie grows her own herbs in her garden and enjoys making things at home. You can now find her home remedies and ideas here at Little House Living.
This recipe for the Perfect Pizza Crust from scratch was originally posted on Little House Living in April 2012. It has been updated as of March 2020.
Thanks for sharing this recipe. Tomorrow night is pizza night here so I may give this a whirl.
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This is the most amazing sauce, we use organic paste, organic parm cheese and raw honey from azure in this recipe. Thanks for the pizza crust recipe, we don’t have a fav yet for that, I will have to try it!
sounds like the one I use; I usually add oregano, chopped garlic and cornmeal to mine (makes is a little crunchier). and you can’t go wrong with extra garlic!!
so, I see the ingredients, but did I somehow miss the directions for this? It looks wonderful and I would love to try it!
You’ll just need to add the ingredients to your breadmachine (and run on a dough cycle) or mixer and let it rise once.
Yay-thank you I need this.
What if you don’t have a bread machine (yet) or a mixer?
You’ll need to knead the dough really well for about 5 minutes. Then let it rise for about 30 to 45 minutes.
Just made this dough, wondering how long to cook it and what temp. Wanted to make it this evening. Hope I hear from you.
My mom is on the road today but I believe she tops the pizza with everything but the cheese and bakes it at 350F for about 15 minutes. Then add the cheese and cook until it’s melted.
…and then for a GF recipe, use GF all purpose flour….
I should know this, but can you freeze the dough or the already baked crusts to use later? If you freeze the dough, do you shape it first? Am so doing this for lunch ideas for the husband so he won’t have to buy it anymore! Thanks.
We don’t shape it first, just make a ball shape and place it in a freezer bag. Then we you are ready to use you can pull out the bag, let it thaw and it’s just like you made fresh dough!
I LOVE THIS
I LOVE THIS IV BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS THANK YOU SHIRLEY
Hi I use the gluten free flour from Azure Standard. It is called Maninis flour. Works great for all my baking.
I don’t understand something about your homemade pizza crust: you list the ingredients, but should they all be mixed together at the same time, or Ina certain order? I see a list of ingredients, then it says to
Bake for 5-10 minutes, no specifics about handling the yeast, mixing, letting the dough rise, etc.
Polly anytime you use yeast in a bread recipe you put in wet ingredients in bowl or bread maker first, then flour on top, then sugar in one corner, salts and seasonings in another corner and then make a well in the middle of the flour and add the yeast and turn on the bread machine. If doing by hand, some people will heat up their liquids between 110-120 degrees and add the yeast (however, a lot of yeast know days does not need to be done ahead, the instructions on your yeast packet should say how to handle the yeast). Hope this helps!
I have just been retired so have to start separating our wants from our needs. Your book Little House living arrived yesterday and I can see it is going to be a great help. We grind our own wheats so will be trying your Pizza recipe shortly.
Kind regards
David and Gill from South Africa
Easy and delicious.
At what point do you add the olive oil?
During step 3 when it says to add all other ingredients.
what temperature for the pizza………crust…….then bake with toppings ?
Thanks Larry — Central Fl.