How to make thin pizza dough at home: an easy way

Thin and crispy pizza dough is a problem for many housewives. The dish often looks more like a pie. But it is also possible to make pizza on a thin dough at home, just like in restaurants. It is worth using some simple life hacks.

Amateur chef Serhii Dzhurenko shared a simple idea for making the perfect pizza dough on his website.

The most important secrets of thin dough from Serhii:

• For the perfect texture, the dough should not be allowed to rise.
• After rolling it out, pierce it with a fork.
• Grease the base with sauce, put the filling, and bake in the oven.

Ingredients:

• High-grade wheat flour - 2 cups (260 g)
• Fast yeast - 5 g
• Salt - 1/3 tsp
• Sugar - 2 tsp.
• Olive oil - 2-3 tbsp.

Technology for choosing flour for pizza by Serhii Dzhurenko

In Italy, they use durum wheat flour. In Ukraine, this product is rare, so you can replace it with whole wheat flour or rye flour ground with the shell. A glass of flour contains 130 g, as confirmed by cookbooks. For a 34-cm diameter pizza, about 250 grams of flour is enough – two almost full glasses.

Method of preparation:

1. Sift the flour.
2. Add yeast, salt, and sugar.
3. Stir everything evenly with a fork.
4. Pour 160-170 ml of plain water into a glass.
5. Put the glass of water in the microwave for 10-12 seconds to heat it up a little. Add 2-3 tbsp of olive oil to the water.
6. Stir, pour the water into the mixture, and stir until smooth.
7. Knead the dough – it will be a little sticky and very soft.
8. Shape the dough into a ball, transfer the dough to a small clean, and dry bowl, and cover with a clean cloth napkin. The consistency of the dough is soft and elastic, very well stretched.
9. Put the dough in a warm place for 40-45 minutes.
10. After the dough has risen, stretch it by 5-7 mm with your hands.
11. Form the edges from the edges.
12. Leave the dough to rise.
13. Make pricks with a fork, otherwise, it will rise in a dome when steamed.
14. Put your favorite filling.