You decided at lunch you wanted pizza. This dough is ready in about 4 hours. A little more yeast, a warm spot, no heroics.
It will not have the overnight tang. It will still beat delivery.
Ingredients
Pick one dough — homemade or a store-bought ball.
Homemade dough
- 500 g bread flour
- 320 ml warm water
- 10 g salt
- 7 g instant yeast
- 10 g olive oil
Premade dough
- Skip this recipe — buy one 250–280 g store-bought pizza dough ball and open a pie recipe instead.
Products & ingredients
What this pie actually wants. Flour, tomatoes, cheese, and tools — Amazon links, so this blog can keep going.
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Nutrition
If you buy the kit on this page
- Serving
- 1 dough ball
- Calories
- 530
- Protein
- 16 g
- Carbohydrates
- 90 g
- Fat
- 11 g
- Sodium
- 970 mg
Pack labels of those brands (or USDA where a brand does not print a panel), times the grams in this recipe. Drain the mozzarella, swap a tin, or skip the oil and they move.
Labels used: Caputo Pizzeria 00, Diamond Crystal kosher salt, Partanna extra-virgin olive oil.
How to make and cook it
Make the base
- 01Mix 500 g bread flour, 320 ml warm water, 10 g salt, 7 g yeast, 10 g oil.
- 02Knead 8 minutes.
- 03Rise 90 minutes.
- 04Divide, rest 30 minutes.
Or use premade dough
- 01Skip mixing.
- 02Buy a ball, let it sit out 1 hour, then follow Add sauce and toppings on a pie recipe.
Add sauce and toppings
- 01Stretch the dough.
- 02Sauce, then cheese, then any toppings — in that order.
Cook
- 01Stretch.
- 02Top.
- 03Dinner tonight.
Cook
Oven
- 01Steel at 290°C (550°F).
- 02Bake 7–9 minutes.
Gas pizza oven
- 01Preheat on high, 400–455°C (750–850°F). 60–90 seconds, turning.
Wood-fired oven
- 01Floor 425°C (800°F). 60–90 seconds.
