Forget the Takeout; Homemade Pizza

Everywhere we go, we are always in search of a great local pizza joint, but sometimes those are hard to come by. Instead of spending a ton of money on "not so great" takeout pizza, Adam created a delicious homemade pizza recipe that just keeps getting better each time he makes it. This is the ultimate date night meal to eat at home when watching a movie. So hang up that phone and pull out the flour; you're staying in tonight!



Homemade Pizza Dough

Ingredients:

2/3 cup warm tap water
1 packet of quick rising yeast
1 tsp. sugar
1 1/2 cups unbleached AP flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tbs. olive oil
Bench flour

Directions:

Place warm tap water in a small bowl and add quick rising yeast and sugar. Allow to sit for 10-15 minutes or until yeast is activated (bubbles form on top). Meanwhile, combine flour and salt together in a larger bowl; set aside. Return to yeast mixture and whisk in olive oil until fully incorporated. Create a well in the flour and pour in yeast mixture. Stir until dough forms into a ball. Flour board and knead dough for 5 minutes. Form dough into ball and and place in bowl greased with olive oil. Cover bowl with damp towel and place in warm spot. (Sometimes we turn the oven on and then turn it off right before we put the dough in to help to rise)

Note: It should take about an hour to rise.



Assemble the pizza. To make this pizza stretch the dough out onto a greased 12" round pan. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Spread about 1/2 cup of pizza sauce onto dough and then place 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese on top of the sauce. Next grate 1 cup of mozzarella cheese and spread over pizza. We top our pizza off with pepperoni, but you could really use whatever toppings you like.