Pizza Dough

Pizza Dough

Pizza Dough

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An easy and quick kid-friendly pizza dough

Ingredients:

  • flour - 3 cups (375 g)
  • instant fast-rise yeast - 1 3/4 tsp.
  • salt - 1 1/4 tsp.
  • hot water - 1 cup (240 mL)
  • olive oil - 3 3/4 tsp.

Instructions:

BLEND

  1. Add all dry ingredients into your Vitamix container
  2. Pulse on level 10 a few times
  3. Slowly add the water & oil through the lid plug
  4. Pulse on level six 30 times
  5. Replace lid and pulse until a ball forms
  6. Once ball has formed, blend for 15 seconds

PREP

  1. Preheat oven to 425
  2. Remove from container (flour or oil your hands)
  3. Place in greased bowl and let rise for 10 min
  4. Stretch into 12 inch (30 cm) crust
  5. Top with whatever you like
  6. Bake for 10 min
  7. Broil on high for 2 minutes

SERVE

  1. Slice and serve piping hot
  2. Snap a pic and tag #lifeisNOYOKE
  3. Enjoy!

Useful tips for Pizza Dough

To get that pizza-shop look, we turned the broiler on high for 2-3 minutes at the end. It got the (vegan) cheese bubbling and the crust browned.

Stretch the dough from the sides, not the middle. We got a much better shape on the red sauce pizza with that method.

Serving pesto pizza on black plate.