Homemade Pizza.....Yummm!!!

Tonight we had homemade pizza and boy was it yummy! One of our favorite meals around here! So, I thought I would share the recipe and technique I use.

First, the ingredients.

3 C Flour

3/4 tsp. Salt

2 1/4 tsp. Yeast

2 Tbsp. Sugar

2 Tbsp. Oil

1 C Water

1. In a large mixer, mix all the dry ingredients.

2. Gradually add in water and oil and let it mix for about 8 minutes or so.

3. Preheat oven to 500*.

4. Divide your dough into 2-3 balls, roll out, place parchment paper, poke with a fork. 
5. Bake for 4 minutes.
 The parchment paper allows a quick and easy transfer of the pizza (put pizza and parchment in the oven) if you don't have one of those pizza paddle things. I have a round stone that I put into the oven and heat up while the oven is preheating.

6. Take out of the oven and top with cheese, let melt, and add sauce and toppings. Bake at 500* for 10-15 minutes. 

Now enjoy!

 If you want, you can even freeze the pizza or crust for later for those nights you don't feel like cooking. After you bake the dough for 4 minutes, let cool and wrap up in plastic wrap twice and place into the freezer. For an already made pizza, just make like usual, but before you bake it (with your toppings on it) just wrap it up twice in plastic wrap and freeze. When you pull your pizza out to bake, don't defrost it. Just put it in the oven at 500* for 15-20 minutes and it will be great! Your crust should not be soggy at all because it has been partially bakes already. I hope you all enjoy this easy pizza as much as we do!