For a long while, I’ve wanted to try making pizza dough here at home so we can try making our own pizzas.  The dough was my obstacle though.  I’m no friend of a needy (hahaha) dough.   No really, I just don’t like spending forever kneading.  And then I heard about making a “no knead pizza dough”!!! This recipe is a huge hit in my family.  We’ve been having bi-monthly pizza parties here for a couple months now and I think we’ll be keeping it up for a while.

Easy, No-Knead Pizza Dough

2 teaspoons salt

500 grams or 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (I measure this in my kitchen scale to 500 grams)

1 ½ cup water (plus or minus a tiny bit)

1/2  teaspoon dry active yeast (you could use as little as 1/4 teaspoon dry active yeast)

Just mix everything together in a bowl into what will be like “shaggy dough” for lack of a better term. Put plastic wrap over the bowl and leave it at least overnight or up to 3 days in the refrigerator. I just whip this together the night before we want to have pizza.

3 hours before you want to make pizzas, take bowl from refrigerator.  Pull dough from bowl onto a floured surface.  Divide into 3-5 pieces.  Fold and pat pieces into ball shapes, put on floured surface.  Place a damp tea towel over the dough and let it rest until you are ready to make pizzas.

Stretch the dough, put on ingredients and put into preheated 500 degree oven on a preheated pizza stone.  I need to turn the broiler right after I put my pizzas into the oven.  Only takes a little while, under 10 minutes.  But cook your pizzas until it looks done for your tastes.