My Search is Over!! The Perfect Pizza Crust

After years (well, maybe not years . . . more like 1 year but it seemed like years!) I think I FINALLY found the "perfect" pizza dough recipe that my resident expert really loved!!  And where else would I find it but on the Fleischmann Yeast website!!  Of course!!  They have a HUGE section devoted to pizza making - every type of pizza imaginable - dessert pizzas, calzones, vegetarian pizzas . . . you named, it is probably there!!

And I found this recipe there . . . Thin Crust Pizza - what I have been looking for!!  My husband hasn't been thrilled with my pizza dough recipe and I was about ready to throw away my baking stone (not really!!).  But I didn't want to buy store bought pizza and the pizza stores' pizza can be expensive.  And I do prefer homemade!  So I was thrilled with I saw this recipe and decided to give it a try.  Of course, I didn't have all the ingredients to make a pizza (no pepperoni, so I just substitute polish kielbasa instead - made for an "interesting" pizza!!)  But my main objective was to see how good the pizza dough was.

So onto the recipe . . .

Thin Crust Pizza by Fleischmann's Yeast

Ingredients:

1 3/4 to 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 envelope Fleischmann's Pizza Crust Yeast or RapidRise Yeast
1 1/2 tsp sugar
3/4 tsp salt
2/3 cups very warm water (120 to 130F)
3 T oil (I used olive oil but I think any vegetable oil would work)
pizza sauce or tomato sauce
your favorite toppings
Mozzarella cheese

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425F

Mix together 1 cup flour, undissolved yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl.

Add the very warm water and oil.

Mix until blended.

Gradually add the rest of the flour, the dough will be sticky.

Take the dough and knead on a floured surface, adding more flour as needed.  Knead the dough until smooth and no longer "sticky" - about 4 minutes.

If you used the RapidRise yeast, let the dough rest for about 10 minutes.

Here the directions said to divide the dough into two equal parts (this is supposed to make 2 12 inch pizzas).  I was only going to make one big pizza, so I skipped this step.

Roll out the dough on flour countered top and place on a greased pizza pan or baking sheet.  Form a rim around the edge of the dough.

Spread with the pizza sauce or tomato sauce and cover with your favorite toppings.

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, the cheese should be bubbly and the crust should be brown.

Enjoy!!!

Entire Recipe:

Thin Crust Pizza by Fleischmann's Yeast

Ingredients:

1 3/4 to 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 envelope Fleischmann's Pizza Crust Yeast or RapidRise Yeast
1 1/2 tsp sugar
3/4 tsp salt
2/3 cups very warm water (120 to 130F)
3 T oil (I used olive oil but I think any vegetable oil would work)
pizza sauce or tomato sauce
your favorite toppings
Mozzarella cheese

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425F

Mix together 1 cup flour, undissolved yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl.

Add the very warm water and oil.

Mix until blended.

Gradually add the rest of the flour, the dough will be sticky.

Take the dough and knead on a floured surface, adding more flour as needed.  Knead the dough until smooth and no longer "sticky" - about 4 minutes.

If you used the RapidRise yeast, let the dough rest for about 10 minutes.

Here the directions said to divide the dough into two equal parts (this is supposed to make 2 12 inch pizzas).  I was only going to make one big pizza, so I skipped this step.

Roll out the dough on flour countered top and place on a greased pizza pan or baking sheet.  Form a rim around the edge of the dough.

Spread with the pizza sauce or tomato sauce and cover with your favorite toppings.

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, the cheese should be bubbly and the crust should be brown.

Enjoy!!!

Comments:

My husband loved it!!  This will now be my "go to" recipe when I make homemade pizza.  It was good.  Perfect crust - if you like thin crust pizzas.  The only mistake I made was baking it on the baking stone, parts of the crust stuck to the stone.  The next time I will use a pizza pan or baking sheet.