Easy Bread Machine Pizza Dough

Making pizza at home is easy if you have the right tools and you'd be surprised how few tools you need. The dough is typically the part most people think is difficult to make but my 15 year old son who has no time is able to make is own pizza every night.

The only piece of "special" equipment you need is a bread machine with a dough setting. We had one sitting around from the home bread making craze a few years ago. The first thing you are going to need are the ingredients. Simple bread ingredients are all that is needed.
3 1/2 cups of flour (Bread flour for a slightly chewier crust.) 2 tablespoons of yeast (Normal yeast, not fast acting yeast.) 2 table spoons of honey (I add 3-4 tablespoons for a sweeter dough) 1/4 cup olive oil (This adds a lot of flavor.) 1/2 teaspoon salt (Don't skip this.) 1 cup warm water (Around 100 degrees.) Any other flavorings (I put Italian seasoning, 1 table spoon, garlic powder, onions, ETC.)Place all the ingredients into the bread machine and set it to the dough setting. This is the only part that takes some time. My machine runs an hour and a half and only needs to be checked once after 20 minutes or so to make sure the dough doesn't climb the side.

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Once the dough is done, spread flour over a large cutting board or a clean table. First divide up the dough because this is just a huge amount of dough to work with. One recipe makes 2 large regular pizzas or 1 large pan style pizza.

Roll out the dough with a rolling pin. Roll away from you then turn the dough a quarter turn and roll again. Continue doing this until the dough is 1/4 inch thick for regular pizza or 1/2 inch for thick pan style.

Now you have inexpensive and tasty pizza dough waiting for your toppings. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 20 minute then check on it regularly until the crust is a golden brown.

Easy Bread Machine Pizza Dough

Zane Minninger loves food and experiments with different foods regularly. Having two children who love pizza but hate most delivery places, he had to come up with a fast and easy method to feed his growing children.

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