Grammy's Kitchen · Pizza Dough · Simple, 4-Ingredient Homemade Pizza Dough
One of 24 pizza dough recipes we measured
from alexandracooks.com
It ranks #1 of 24 for workability among the pizza dough recipes we compared. 217 cooks on alexandracooks.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 24.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 89% | 67% |
| fat | 0% | 5% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| yeast | 1% | 2% |
| total sugar | 0% | 2% |
| flour strength | 2.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 512 g | 4 cups (512 g) bread flour or all-purpose flour, plus more for assembly |
| 15 g | 3 to 4 teaspoons (10 to 15 g) kosher salt |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon (4 g) instant yeast |
| 454 g | 1.75 to 2 cups (400 to 454 g) lukewarm water |
Method: 7 steps, published by alexandracooks.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Simple and easy pizza dough! Excellent crust every time!! I like to add the following toppings - Before baking: Passata with fresh basil, salt, and pepper Fresh mozzarella Parmesan or similar Red peppers thinly sliced Red chilli Roquito peppers (aka” — a cook, 5.0★
“This recipe calls for instant yeast, whereas the sour dough pizza recipe (uses your active starter) is essentially making sour dough bread, but dividing the dough and shaping it for pizza the next day. Is it possible to use active starter discard to make dough” — a cook, 5.0★