We are your typical American family. Friday night it’s pizza night. More than I should admit we order from a local Italian restaurant but most of the time I make my own.
I don’t eat much pizza since the tomato sauce gives me heartburn but when I make my own you it’s a fight for the last piece.
This time I made a simple cheese pizza with a couple of halved tomatoes and fresh oregano. It was excellent! If only I had made two, hubby said.
I’ve made my own pizza dough years ago but never thought of sharing the recipe with you. I think I was selfish. I wanted to keep this just for me. I could eat this stuff every single day! I should probably make a bread just using the pizza crust, it’s that good!
Let me tell you a little secret – the key to the best pizza lays in the crust. We like out thin and I add grated cheese to the pizza dough. You can never go wrong with more cheese! We’re talking pizza here!
I think you already know that the pizza crust is the one that dictates the final result of the pizza. If the crust is flavorless no matter what topping you’ll add, your pizza will be bland. The Sargento® Shredded Reduced Fat 4 Cheese Italian, good olive oil, garlic and onion powder, sea salt and fresh ground pepper gave a lot of flavor to the crust and the fresh tomatoes and oregano I used for topping turn a simple pizza night into an unforgettable one!
Homemade cheese pizza with made-from-scratch flavorful cheese pizza dough.
Ingredients
- 4 cups (480 grams) all purpose flour
- 1 envelope PLATINUM Red Star Yeast
- 1/2 cup lukewarm water
- 1/2 cup (56 grams) Sargento® Shredded Reduced Fat 4 Cheese Italian
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp ground pepper
- scant 1 cup water
- 1 cup (113 grams) Sargento® Shredded Reduced Fat 4 Cheese Italian
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- grape tomatoes halved
- fresh oregano
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add the flour and make a well in the middle. Pour 1/2 cup lukewarm water and sprinkle the yeast on top. Stir to combine the yeast with water (without incorporating too much flour) and leave at room temperature until foamy.
- With the dough hook on, stat mixing after adding the shredded cheese, oil, salt. sugar, pepper, garlic and onion powder.Slowly pour enough water (almost 1 cup) to form an elastic dough that comes clean from the sides of the bowl.
- Take the dough out and place it in an oiled bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature until doubled in volume.
- When doubled in volume divide the dough in two-three pieces, depending how big you want your pizza.
- Keep one ball of pizza dough and the remaining 1(2) wrap tightly in plastic wrap and place in a freezer zip-lock bag and keep in the freezer until next time you want to make pizza.
- Heat the oven to 450F.
- Roll the pizza dough out and brush lightly with olive oil and spread the toppings.
- Since we like our crust to be thin I don't leave the pizza stay at room temperature for a second rise for more than 10 minutes.
- Bake the pizza in the preheated oven until golden, for 10-12 minutes depending on the size.
- Enjoy while warm!
- The remaining pizza dough that is placed in the freezer will be as good as the fresh made one. All you have to do is let it thaw in the refrigerator for a couple of hours after removing it from the zip-lock bag.
- Leave the pizza dough to rest at room temperature for about 30 minutes while you heat the oven before rolling it our and place the topping on it.
- Bake as normal.
Sending love your way,
Roxana
*This post is sponsored by Sargento® , all opinion are and always will be mine.
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Yum— this looks delicious- a great light pizza!
Oh, how perfect!!! This is exactly how my family likes their pizza! I will have to try your wonderful pizza dough recipe!
Absolutely perfect!! I love homemade pizza….so delicious. Pinning this immediately!
We adore pizza night here too. Our goal is to have homemade pizza and movie night with the kids each week. Hopefully it is something they will remember when they are grown. I am loving that you add cheese in the crust. My hubby always makes our crust…I am going to have him try your cheese trick!!! You can never go wrong with more cheese!!!
Your pizza dough looks absolutely wonderful!!! You sure you’re not Italian?
This pizza looks so, so delicious! I’m ready for dinner
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Homemade pizza is one of my FAVORITE things to make and eat! Yours looks perfect!
your pizza dough looks so perfect! I don’t know how you do it! Do you know of a good GF pizza dough recipe? I am needing one now
I have little knowledge about GF baking, especially yeast breads
Carolyn of http://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/ might help you
We love homemade pizza! Yours looks fabulous, Roxana!
Once you get to a certain age or if you work from home and have no children.. any night can be Friday Night Pizza night. I often have to look to see what day it is.
Love your pizza crust. I haven’t seen Sargento since I left the states. It’s good stuff.
I am always looking out for new crust recipes. I have one I like, but it isn’t perfect. I will try this one for sure next time!
These cheese pizzas looks divine. You have really gorgeous photos!
Roxana…you’ve been holding out on us with this beautiful pizza dough. (I even just love the look of it sitting in those smooth balls in the background of one of your pictures!). And I don’t blame your husband for wanting you to make two pizzas. They look perfect! : )
Roxanna, I’m such a sucker for pizza. It’s one thing I never tire of. Yours looks wonderful, I can see why your husband wanted more!
Nice to see savory dishes here! Even with savory stuff, you make baking seem effortless! Wonderful pizza!
Yum! This has to be the best looking pizza I’ve seen;-) I think this makes a perfect family dinner that everybody would enjoy;-)
I normally try to avoid pizza as much as possible but lately I’ve had a serious craving. Your gorgeous, homemade version just kicked the craving into overdrive!!
Delicious pizza, and perfect topping! Mouthwatering pics
I don’t know how you made cheese pizza look so beautiful, but dang girl. LOVE these photos!
It’s been too long since I’ve last had pizza, especially homemade. Your beautiful pictures are drool worthy!
Love homemade pizza! Nothing better and perfect for a Friday night to start the weekend. Yours looks divine!!!!
Lovely pizza Roxana! I rarely make my own dough…so bad. But I am inspired as yours looks so fresh!
That pizza looks delicious! I love homemade pizza but am often too lazy to make the dough. I really need to after seeing yours!
This was the best homemade pizza dough i have ever made or eaten! So delish…definitely a keeper!
This is absolutely gorgeous! I have a pizza dough post coming up later this week…and really, I didn’t need to reinvent the wheel after seeing this post of your. Stunning food, food photography, yeasted dough recipe…it’s all fabulous, Roxana! Pinned!
I decided to make this tonight. I am always trying new types of dough. We have pizza night, like many other families, on Friday nights. This was by far the BEST pizza dough I have ever made. It was perfect. I understand what you meant by not letting it sit out after rolling it out. It doubled again and our pepperoni pizza crust was over an inch think. Thankfully that pizza was for my 16 year old and he thought it was great! You have a real winner here. Thank you for sharing it!
This was amazing!! It smelled so good while I was mixing it up, I was drooling. Then waiting for it to rise. Well all I can say is you shouldn’t wait till your already starving to make this cause it smelled so good I wanted to eat it raw. However I did wait and Mmmm it was worth it. Great job and thank you for sharing
Looks yummy! Just a question.. What’s ‘scant’??? It says ‘scant 1 cup water’ – I’m not much of a chef, so I’m unsure as to what it means! Help?
Good morning Shayla,
scant means almost. (Almost 1 cup of water)
Roxana
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