Easy Homemade Pizza Dough

Homemade Pizza

Pizzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! All hail the mighty pizza! Pizza! Pizza! Pizza! Oh right, this isn’t a protest, get your act together and stop chanting. So pizza, that mouth-watering bread base with amazing toppings and tons of cheese, a meal that requires no occasion. Seriously, my husband will have pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, not to mention when he’s having his occasional beer and movie marathons. I’m a serious addict too but I rather make my husband look like the crazy one here, you know for appearance’s sake.

Homemade Pizza

Store-bought pizza is good, but homemade is better. It takes less than an hour to make and you can have all your weird combinations that might make a pizza shop question your sanity.

My hubby and I are huge pizza fans and we order pizza at least 4 or 5 times a month that actually costs a lot. I’ve decided that I should try making some pizzas at home, not only would it be fun but I just needed pizza for a snack that evening. Alright, it took me a couple of attempts to get this right, in the end, I got a very satisfying pizza dough recipe which is what I’m going to share with you today. Oh, and I have a crazy unique pizza topping that might just take pizza to a whole new level.

Homemade Pizza

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of lukewarm water
• 01 tsp of brown sugar
• 01 tsp of instant yeast
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 01 and 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour
• 02 tbsp of all-purpose flour for dusting
• 01 tbsp of coconut oil

Toppings

• 02 cups of button mushrooms – sliced
• 01 tbsp of Finch basil leaves – Shop now
• 1-2 tap of Finch Oregano powder – Shop now
• 01 tbsp of black garlic paste – Shop now 
• 1-4 cups of black olives
• 1/2 cup of pizza sauce/tomato sauce
• 02 cups of grated mozzarella cheese

Prep time – 50 minutes   Cooking time – 20 minutes    Serves – 02 medium-sized pizza

Homemade Pizza Dough Ingredients

Method

• Add lukewarm water and sugar to a large bowl and stir well together until sugar dissolves.
• Next, add instant yeast to the bowl,  give it a quick mix, cover, and allow to rest for 10-15 minutes.

• When the yeast is active add all-purpose flour and salt and mix both dry and wet ingredients together using a whisk or a spatula.
• Now let’s get your hands dirty! start kneading the dough using your hands until all the ingredients are well combined and until a smooth dough forms. Don’t be afraid to sprinkle some more flour into the mix if the dough is too sticky.

• Apply butter or oil into a bowl and transfer the pizza dough, lightly brush the pizza dough with butter or oil, cover and rest for 30-45 minutes until the dough doubles in size. (ref image)

• Preheat your oven at 180C
• Meanwhile, heat up a skillet over medium heat, add 02-03 tbsp of oil and saute button mushrooms for 03-04 minutes until mushrooms are cooked. Don’t forget to add the magic ingredient! a spoon full of black garlic paste!

• Transfer the risen dough onto a floured work surface, dust the dough and roll the dough to your desired shape of a pizza. With this set of ingredients, you can make either one large pizza or two medium-sized thin-crust pizzas.

• Once the pizza crust is shaped add your favorite toppings. First spread a generous amount of pizza sauce or tomato sauce followed by grated mozzarella cheese, black garlic mushrooms, black olives, and sprinkle some Finch basil leaves and back for 17-20 minutes or till the edges are crusty and golden brown.

• Let the pizza cool down a bit, slice it up and enjoy!