Ultimate Pizza Dough Recipe – Perfect Crust Every Time
I love pizza. However, I have never been able to recreate pizzeria style pizzas. Then I stumbled upon High Gluten Flour. I know what you are thinking, Rex is bucking the trend of gluten free. It is true, gluten can be your friend. Especially when you are making pizza dough. I am not talking about bread flour, I am talking about super flour with a gluten content of 12% or more. I picked up this super flour at Restaurant Depot. You can buy similar stuff online at Amazon and other retailers.
I used to think that my old dough was good, but this new dough is amazing. The only real difference was the flour. High gluten flour allows you to have perfect dough that forms into perfect pizzas without ripping or tearing. Plus, it gives you the most amazing bite ever. I love this stuff. Dana actually said that we are no longer allowed to order pizza. Now that is quite the endorsement from the former New Yorker!
The recipe is simple. Basic ingredients, but with the higher gluten content you get 100 times better pizza.
I then made a simple blender pizza sauce and it was on.
Ultimate Pizza Dough
You can make this recipe by hand, but it is easier with a stand mixer with a dough hook.
Add all of the pizza ingredients minus the olive oil to the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low speed until ingredients come together.
Add the olive oil and continue mixing for a few seconds longer.
Once the dough starts to form a ball, turn the mixer to medium and knead the dough for a full 15 minutes.
Place dough in a large oiled bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Place dough in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours and up to 5 days.
I then baked the pizzas using the kettle pizza attachment for my Weber charcoal kettle. You can cook them in the oven at 425 for 15-20 minutes or until the edges and cheese are browned.
The kettle pizza allows you to make coal/wood fired pizzas on you basic Weber kettle. Quite possibly one of the best attachments for Weber out there.
I would totally recommend one, as it makes one of the best pizzas out there. I have been using the kettle pizza for a year now and I have totally got the pizza making process down. The only modification that I have made is adding a charcoal basket full of coal and wood to the pizza stone level of the kettle pizza.
This adds more heat to the pizza level allowing the cheese to cook as fast as the crust. With this one modification I have perfected my pizzas and can cook a pizza every 3-4 minutes.
Check out this thing in action. http://www.kettlepizza.com
Ingredients
Method
- You can make this recipe by hand, but it is easier with a stand mixer with a dough hook.
- Add all of the pizza ingredients minus the olive oil to the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low speed until ingredients come together.
- Add the olive oil and continue mixing for a few seconds longer.
- Once the dough starts to form a ball, turn the mixer to medium and knead the dough for a full 15 minutes.
- Place dough in a large oiled bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Place dough in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours and up to 5 days.
- I then baked the pizzas using the kettle pizza attachment for my Weber charcoal kettle. You can cook them in the oven at 425 for 15-20 minutes or until the edges and cheese are browned.
