Awesome Bread Machine Pizza Dough

HDMac's Note:

This came from the TOH board. This is a perfect pizza crust! :)

• Total Time: 1 hrs 35 mins
• Prep Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 1 ¼ cups water
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup parmesan cheese
• 1 tablespoon cornmeal
• 3 cups bread flour
• 2 ¼ teaspoons dry yeast

Directions:

1. Put this in the bread machine on the manual/dough cycle.
2. At the end of the cycle punch down the dough and let rest 5 min.
3. Roll out the dough to the shape of your pan, and put in pan, top as desired Bake at 425 for at least 15 min.
4. until cheese is well melted, and browned.
5. Variation: Add 1 to 2 tsp Italian Seasoning.

Reviews

[kearl]

Finally a pizza dough recipe that tastes great. I'll be using this one EVERY time I make pizza.. It was hard to find a good bread machine recipe for pizza dough. Thanks.

[Marie]

This recipe did not give me the traditional pizza dough taste. I feel it needed more yeast and about 1/2 teaspoon more salt. However, it was very easy to work with and produced a crunchy crust. I have been using the Sicilian Pizza Dough recipe by Nick Stellino for years and still prefer that one.

[Chef #514584]

This was a great recipe! I added some dried Italian seasoning to the mix and it was a good thing to do. Also, it was SOooo much nicer to work the dough ball as wet with olive oil instead of the traditional dry with a flour dusting. Furthermore, the pizza crust cooked up with a slight browning/crusting effect on the bottom because of the olive oil. I will have to agree with another reviewer, however, that it made quite a large and/or thick crust upon which to build the pizza. Plenty of dough with this recipe. The dough ball is easily big enough to halve and make 2 pizzas, which is my plan for tonight! Thank you for this great recipe! Pete