Pizza Dough (Basic)

Pizza dough is a basic ingredient for preparing pizza at home. It is easy if you know how to prepare the dough, so that you can customize the toppings the way you want. Here we are going to see step by step instructions along with supporting pictures for preparing the basic pizza dough.

Ingredients for Pizza dough

All purpose flour/ Maida – 2 cups
Instant yeast – 1.5 tsp
Sugar – 1.5 tsp
Salt – 1.5 tsp
Warm Milk – 1/4 cup
Oil – 4 tbsp
Warm water – 6 tbsp
Water as needed (for kneading)

Directions

Take a pan and warm milk and water
Add the yeast and sugar to the warm liquid
Mix well and leave it for five minutes
Now you can see some bubbles coming in the warm liquid

Take a big mixing bowl and add flour, salt then mix well
Pour the warm liquid to the flour and start kneading
Add the oil little by little and knead well until soft
Add water if needed
Cover the dough with lid or cotton cloth

Keep the dough in a warm place for one hour
Now the dough raised into double the size
Dough is now ready to add toppings for your pizza

Notes

Don’t warm the water & milk too much, hot liquid kill the yeast
This dough is enough to make 1 medium pizza or 2 personal pizza

If you live in a cold place, keep the dough inside the pre-heated oven (Pre-heat for few minutes and switch off the oven before keeping the dough inside)

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