Same day, Super Easy, Pizza Dough, crispy recipe

I mean really, who can resist a light airy, crispy crunchy pizza crust? Anyone?

(Silence, other than the chirps of crickets and frogs.)

That’s what I thought. Here’s a pizza dough that takes 5 minutes to put together in the morning, leave it sit and by supper time it’s ready. I mean COME ON, HOW EASY IS THAT!

** There’s a video at the bottom of this page that shows all the steps.

Let’s say you have pizza on Saturday night, like every Saturday night… for over 30 years. Yes… that’s hardcore dedication people! 🙂

You gotta start the dough though (see what I did there) …. right after Friday night’s supper meal.

It all starts with this simple pizza dough recipe. And don’t forget to check out the video that is down past the photos!

Ingredients

• 1-1/4 cups of all purpose flour (regular bread flour will do)
• 1/4 teaspoon table salt
• 1/2 teaspoon instant yeast
• 1/2 cup cool temp water (the warmer the room, the colder the water)
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (or canola oil)
• (additional water may be needed)

Directions

1. After breakfast in the morning, place the dry ingredients in the bowl and blend together.
2. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients.
3. Use your hands, a plastic scraper or a wooden spoon and blend the ingredients until you have a shaggy dough and no more dry ingredients are at the bottom of the bowl.
4. Fold the shaggy mixture just a few extra times to bring the dough together in a loose lump of dough. You don’t need to work the dough like a lot of other recipes.
5. Cover lightly with plastic wrap and cover with a towel. Leave on the counter at room temperature (20-22ºC) until 4pm.
6. Your dough should be double or triple in size.
7. Drizzle oil around the bowl sides and then scrape the dough onto the pizza pan. Now start pressing the dough out to the thickness you want. The dough will spring back some, so don’t be too concerned about the dough not staying where you want it to go. I usually spread out to about 12 inches.
8. Cover the pans with plastic and a cloth and let rest for 30 minutes.
9. At 4:30, set your oven to 550ºF and dress the pizza.
10. Dress your pizza however you want, then put them in the oven, second rack position from the bottom.
11. Bake time is 11 minutes.
12. Then move the pizza to the very bottom position shelf for 2-3 more minutes (depending on how dark you want the pizza to be.

Enjoy!

Here’s our video! Updated in 2024.