Pizza Dough Recipes

Pizza is one of my favorite foods, and Italian pizza dough is the only thing we use to make ours.


There are so many versions to make and ways to prepare it.


Pizza has styles, different tomato sauces, some are made with a rich garlic sauce called white pizza.


Margherita Pizza style pizza has just slices of tomatoes fresh basil and cheese.


The list goes on and there are so many topping variations to choose from.


Pizza is pure Italian comfort food at it's finest. Here is a wonderful collection of recipes we love and the most versatile dough you will ever need right here in this recipe post.


We love using fresh herbs when possible and basil makes a huge difference in taste.


Create your own pizza on the flavors you like the best.


If there are ingredients in the sauce you don't like don't add them.


Remember recipes are basic to each Region in Italy, many are totally different.


Enjoy this delicious pizza dough recipe, there is nothing like fresh pizza dough!


Stroll down to the end to see two recipes that we love the most.

Fresh Dough and Sauce

Mom and grandma always made fresh pizza dough, it's what I grew up on.


This simple recipe will change everything for how you feel about authentic tasting pizza.


There are so many versions to make but the dough makes the difference.


Check out our easy recipes and pick the one you love, the dough is easy, the rest is by individual taste on what you top it with.


Modern-day people add chicken with buffalo sauce, hamburger with sharp cheddar and list of American changes are numerous.


We stick to our tried and true homemade sauce, whole milk mozzarella cheese, grated cheese, fresh basil and maybe a little sausage and broccoli rabe for an Authentic Italian topping!


Buon Appetito!

Style of Pizza

• Neapolitan Pizza:  Neapolitan pizza toppings are fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, basil leaves, oregano, and olive oil. Since Neapolitan pizza is thin, it isn't designed to handle the weight of too many toppings.
• Chicago Pizza: Referred to as deep-dish pizza.
• New York-Style Pizza: N.Y. style characteristic is a large, foldable slice and has a crispy outer crust. New York-style pizza is one of America’s most famous regional pizza types.
• Sicilian Pizza: Sicilian pizza, also known as "sfincione," provides a thick cut of pizza with pillowy dough, a crunchy crust, and robust tomato sauce.
• Greek Pizza: Features of this one has a thick and chewy crust cooked in shallow, oiled pans, resulting in a nearly deep-fried bottom.
• California Pizza: This pizza got its start back in the late 1970s when Chef Ed LaDou began experimenting with pizza recipes in the classic Italian restaurant, Prego. He created a pizza with mustard, ricotta, pate, and red pepper, and by chance, served it to Wolfgang Puck.
• Detroit Pizza: Originally baked in a square automotive parts pan in the 1940s. Detroit pizza is first topped with pepperoni, followed by brick cheese which is spread to the very edges of the pan, producing a caramelized cheese perimeter.
• St. Louis Pizza: Features a thin crust with a cracker-like consistency that is made without yeast. Due to the crispy crust, St. Louis pizza is usually cut into three- or four-inch rectangles, known as "party" or "tavern" cut.

By Hand or Mixer

Rather standing there by hand and mixing dough for 10 minutes, you can use an industrial style mixer like a KitchenAid with a dough hook to save you time!


I love mine and have used one for years now.


Grandma and mom never had that luxury and only did theirs by hand, it always came out perfectly!

Margherita Pizza

Margherita Pizza is made with Fresh Tomato and shredded whole milk mozzarella, slices of fresh garlic, sprinkle with oregano and top with fresh basil drizzled with olive oil.


A fresh delicious combination of flavors.


I have heard the best Margherita pizza in Italy is in Naples, Italy.


People stand in line in a cobblestone street just off of Via Tribunali in the historic neighborhood and are known for having the best pizza places in the entire world.

Double Cheese

This pizza was made with some tomatoes sliced a little sauce, lots of fresh basil and cheese first and then on top of the crust.


A favorite of my sons, he loves the double cheese on top.

Pizza Comfort Food

Everyone loves comfort food. I think pizza is the ultimate comfort food.


I can even eat leftover pizza right out of the refrigerator, that's how I grew up in Utica, New York.


I loved pizza any way then and now.


Utica was a place for tradition and full of homemade original recipes.


I love my hometown for their famous food creations and always get filled up when I visit home on Tomato Pie, Italian Greens, Italian Lemon Ice, Pizza Fritta, Chicken Riggies, Manny's Cheesecake, Oscugnizzo Pizza, Pusties and Rosato Chocolate Cookies.


I never get tired of pizza!

Pizza Comes in All Shapes and Sizes

Pizza can be made in any kind of shape.


Square, round rectangular, even in a pie pan, anything you have will work that stainless steel of cookie sheet style pans.


Cooking pizza on a pizza stone on high heat is the best results.


Pizza ovens are over 800 degrees, so the hotter the best and crispier crust.

For Garlic Pizza See Recipe After the Pizza Dough Below

If you love white pizza I have that at the end of the post and photos.


The pizza is an oil and garlic base on pizza dough and very good.


You can also spread some homemade ricotta cheese on top.

Regular Pizza With Sauce and Other Toppings

There are so many pizza version, thick crust, thin crust. You decide on when you rise the dough how you would like it.


Roll it out thin for the thin-crust Neapolitan style. Thick for thick crust around 1 and a half inches high or more if you like.


Thick Sicilian style pizza or however your family tradition is, this Italian style pizza dough is versatile and perfect for anything you do with it.

Sauces to use on Pizza

I love all kinds of sauce.



Marinara, Pizza Sauce homemade, Bolognese sauce with meat in it, Traditional Sunday Italian sauce.




Fresh tomato slices and mozzarella on top (margarita style).


Garlic sauce pizza is shown below with recipe.


You can choose any sauce you like store-bought or homemade.

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Dough

This pizza dough can be baked, fried and used in so many recipes.


You can also use this to make rolls, hamburger buns and garlic knots.

Pizza Fritte

Variations: Take 2 to 3 tablespoons of dough depending how big you want these, and make doughnut-shaped rings, or solid shape depending on what you like.


Place on waxed paper let rest about 15 minutes.


Fry in deep, hot oil. While warm, traditional Italian Zeppole, fried dough and what we bought at the feast in Upstate N.Y. you would shake or sprinkle with powdered sugar, regular sugar or cinnamon sugar... taste the best eating while still hot


My kids loved to spread peanut butter and cinnamon sugar on them not the traditional way to eat them!

Pizza, Sausage Rolls, Stromboli and Calzones

Pizza is dough with sauce and toppings.


Stromboli is a pizza dough stuffed with meats and shredded cheese and even vegetables.


Calzones typically have ricotta cheese in them with mozzarella and you can add other meats if you like, but ricotta cheese is the main filling with mozzarella.

Try Some Of Our Favorite Recipes

Antipasto Roll

Sausage Roll

Tomato Pie

Sausage Pizza COPYCAT O'SCUGNIZZO PIZZA

Pizza Fritta

Watch My Quick Video OnPizza Dough Recipes

Printable Recipe Below and Garlic Pizza Recipe

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Yield: 2 pounds

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Pizza Dough Recipes

prep time: 10 Mcook time: 2 hourtotal time: 2 H & 10 M

Using this pizza dough recipe that is over 100 years old from my Italian Grandma from Rome Italy, you can make pizza, pizza fritta, stromboli, sausage roll, garlic knots, panzarotti or anything else you like.

ingredients:

• 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 pkg dry yeast dissolved in 2 cups warm water
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• Other toppings can include, peppers, eggplant, mushrooms, meatballs, olives, anchovies, zucchini, chicken, shrimp, feta, cheddar, fontina or mozzarella cheeses combined.

instructions:

How to cook Pizza Dough Recipes

1. In a large mixing bowl add the yeast and warm water in the bowl, let sit for 1 minute in the bowl. ( the water should be just warm on your wrist not hot)
2. Add the salt, sugar, and oil and stir.
3. Add one cup of flour and blend all together.
4. Next, add the rest of the flour until it forms a ball (should be 3 1/2 cups that is left) add more or less if too sticky 1 tablespoon at a time. The dough shouldn't be dry.
5. Rise in a bowl covered with a wet towel, until doubled in size in a warm spot, away from drafts.
6. Stretch out on a large cookie sheet.
7. Brush top with olive oil, top with tomato sauce, cheese and any other meat toppings of choice suggestions below.
8. Options: sausage, pepperoni, mushroom, peppers, olives, (ham, pineapple),( spinach, broccoli, ricotta, garlic ), sliced tomatoes and feta cheese, or any combo of 
9. Bake until crisp and brown on 430 degrees, keep checking for desired crispiness.
10. For the Sausage Roll Recipe or:
11.  Stromboli and Calzones
12. 1 lb of fresh pizza/ bread dough
13. 1 1/2 lbs of Italian sausage cooked and casing off cooled
14. 4 eggs raw or in some Regions substitute raw for chopped boiled eggs is another option, one more way is to omit the eggs and use just cheese and sausage for the filling
15. 2 cups of mozzarella
16. 4 tablespoons of grated cheese or more to taste
17. 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
18. 1/4 teaspoon oregano
19. 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
20. Mix sausage, eggs, spices and cheeses in a bowl set in the refrigerator. Roll out dough about 1/4 inch thickness into approximately 12 x 12 rectangular.
21. Spread mixture over the dough, roll up and place seam down on a cookie sheet, place in a warm area, to rise around an hour.
22. Brush tops with egg whites or beaten eggs.
23. Bake at 450 for 10 minutes and lower to 375 degrees for the remaining time.
24. The sausage roll is done when crispy and brown.
25. Slice and enjoy.
26. You can make individual mini ones as well using a handful of dough for each one.
27. Variations: In a bowl mix mozzarella cheese, grated cheese, and spices along with any combo below. Bake them at 400 degrees on a greased cookie sheet.
28. Adding the ricotta cheese in the middle of the dough is called a Calzone. Use around 2 tablespoons in the middle of the dough with the seasoned mozzarella. Fold over, crimp and bake.
29. Stromboli is adding meats, peppers, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, black or green olives, onions, mortadella, salami prosciutto in the center with mozzarella seasoned, fold over crimp and bake.
30. Note: If using vegetables saute' vegetables with sausage and drain (always cook raw meats).
31. You can also add Ricotta cheese, fresh chopped parsley, basil, chopped tomato, fresh garlic chopped, greens like spinach or escarole. Combinations are endless. 
32. You can also add ham and mozzarella, ricotta with grated cheese into the dough to make a cheese and by adding meat becomes a stromboli.
33. Lastly, you can make round donut shapes out of your dough and fry this dough for pizza fritta in cooking vegetable oil.

Calories
425

Fat (grams)
22

Sat. Fat (grams)
19

Carbs (grams)
27

Net carbs
19

Sugar (grams)
11

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Garlic Pizza

This is a cheesy garlic pizza that is everyone's favorite here. It's something different.


Again using home-made pizza dough, but topped with mozzarella, herbs and olive oil.

Garlic White Pizza Bonus Recipe

Make a round pizza pan stretched out thinly in a pizza pan greased with olive oil and floured hands.


Rise till double or line with parchment paper so it won't stick.


Note: for a very thick pizza use a greased deep cake pan.

Garlic Pizza Sauce:

• 1 pound of pizza dough stretch out in a pizza pan or any sheet pan
• 2 tablespoons melted butter, 2 tablespoon olive oil.
• 2 cloves finely minced garlic
• Mozzarella shredded cheese
• First, brush the entire top of the dough with the oil and melted butter
• Sprinkle evenly with oregano, basil, parsley, salt, and pepper
• Sprinkle evenly with Parmesan and Romano grated cheese
• Top generously with mozzarella shredded cheese and bake in a hot oven of 430 degrees preheated hot oven and bake until browned.
• Optional: Thinly sliced beefsteak tomatoes then topped with cheeses, or 1/2 cup of whole milk ricotta cheese mixed with 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil, place random spoonfuls over the pizza before topping with mozzarella cheese.

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Don't forget to try our Homemade Marinara Sauce



and Mom's Focaccia

Here are my Favorite from my hometown Utica New York

Utica is famous for Tomato Pie, Italian Greens, Italian Lemon Ice, Pizza Fritta, Chicken Riggies, Manny's Cheesecake, Oscugnizzo Pizza, Pusties and Rosato Chocolate Cookies.