Super easy pizza to make homemade and it’s absolutely delicious! Add pizza sauce, fresh toppings, and mozzarella cheese for the perfect pizza night. Forget take out or delivery, homemade pizza is so much better.
The dough can also be made ahead of time, frozen until pizza day, and thaw in the refrigerator overnight. It can also be parbaked and frozen for a quicker pizza with less fussing around next time. This recipe for the dough makes 3 pizza doughs. We usually bake 2 pizzas at a time and freeze the third for next time.
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Best Homemade Pepperoni and Mushroom Pizza
Super easy pizza to make homemade and it's absolutely delicious! Add pizza sauce, fresh toppings, and mozzarella cheese for the perfect pizza night.
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tbsp Instant yeast
- 1 tbsp Sea salt
- 2 cup Warm water
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- 5 cups Flour
Construct the pizza (ingredients for 1 pizza)
- 1 cup Pizza sauce
- 2 cups Mozzarella cheese
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 1/2 lb Pepperoni
- Black olives
- Mushrooms (fresh sliced)
- Garlic powder
- Olive oil
Instructions
Dough
- Start by adding instant yeast, salt, sugar, and water to stand mixer bowl. Allow to rest for a few minutes.
- Add flour and olive oil to bowl.
- Using the dough hook attachment, knead the dough on low for about 10 minutes. A dough ball should form and all the flour should be off the bowl and mixed into the dough.
- Cover with a damp tea towel and allow to rise for 2 hours. ***It can also rise in the refrigerator for 8 hours prior to baking. Take out of the refrigerator 1 hour before stretching the dough.***
- Deflate the dough, roll into a ball, and divide into 3 equal pieces.
- Begin pulling and stretching to create a 12-inch pizza. Stretch the dough from the middle and outward in a circular shape. You can also use a rolling pin, if desired.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Place on a lightly greased pizza pan. Using a fork, poke holes over the top of the pizza to prevent bubbling of the crust.
- Spread pizza sauce over pizza leaving about a half inch around outside not sauced.
- Lightly brush outside crust with olive oil and sprinkle garlic powder on crust.
- Lightly sprinkle about a third of the cheese over pizza and arrange toppings.
- Cover the pizza with the remaining cheese.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until crust is browned on the bottom and cheese is melted and beginning to brown.
- Remove pizza and allow to rest for 5 minutes before slicing.
Notes
*If frozen, thaw for 24 hours before shaping the pizza. If refrigerated, pull from refrigerator about 45 minutes before shaping for the dough to come to room temperature. Use refrigerated dough within 2 days.
