Homemade pizza dough is something you can make with a few simple ingredients and a little time. It's an easy process and the end result yields the best pizza dough and a delicious, chewy hard-to-beat thin, class or thick crust!

Easy Homemade Pizza Dough

January 19, 2019 - By Liza Hawkins

Last updated on August 28, 2020 by Liza Hawkins

Homemade pizza dough is something you can make with a few simple ingredients and a little time. It’s an easy process and the end result yields the best pizza dough and a delicious, chewy hard-to-beat thin, classic or thick crust!

We eat a lot of pizza in our house.

Sometimes that pizza’s homemade and other times it’s delivery or pick-up.

I even keep a Tombstone in the freezer for those times we want a late-night snack or an easy dinner that requires minimal effort.

There’s no wrong way to do pizza. (Bad pizza exists, yes, but you know what I mean.)

There is, however, one very right way to do pizza, and that’s by making your own homemade pizza dough.

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Homemade pizza dough is really simple to make and very forgiving.

For example…

I’ve substituted whole wheat flour for all-purpose flour, and even used a blend of both.

I’ve let it rise for an hour and then baked my pizza, and I’ve also let it rise a few times over the course of a couple hours.

I’ve also used the dough immediately, as well as frozen it for use later.

There’s really no excuse not to have homemade pizza dough on hand!

Homemade pizza dough’s made with a mere six (that’s right, S – I – X) ingredients.

Keep yeast packets in your pantry, and you’ll likely have what you need to make awesome homemade pizza dough, whenever the mood strikes.

My recipe works just as well for thin crust, as well as thick crust or a more traditional crust.

And when it comes to getting the pizza dough ready for the pan, no matter the thickness, I prefer to skirt the “expert” way of hand-tossing the dough.

Instead, I use a floured rolling pin to roll my homemade pizza dough out to the thinness we’re looking for, and then transfer the rolled out dough to the pizza pan, where I then add sauce, cheese and toppings, before popping it into a hot oven.

I used to use a pizza stone, but find it more complicated these days to top the dough and then transfer to the stone, even with copious amounts of cornmeal, breadcrumbs or semolina to help keep the pizza dough from sticking.

Plus, a pizza stone needs to be preheated at the same time as the oven, so there’s no ability to build the pizza right on it.

If you’re a toppings-fiend like me, transferring topped pizza dough from one surface to that hot stone in the oven can make for a big mess, as pieces of mushroom, peppers, and even cheese inevitably fall on the floor — or worse — the bottom of the oven.

So.

Pizza pan it is! And because I use a really hot oven, the pizza crust still turns out a nice mix of crispy and chewy.

Mmmm…

Check out some of my other pizza recipes:

6 individual rounds