Quick Pizza Dough
Easy from-scratch quick pizza dough that's ready to bake in just 10 minutes! This 10 Minute Pizza Dough turns homemade pizza-making into a quick meal for everyone to enjoy!
UPDATE January 2018: WOWWWWWW. This recipe has been printed hundreds of thousands of times since I originally published it in October 2013.
This recipe is STILL a favorite in our house - we use this easy pizza dough almost weekly! The comments are full of tips and tricks from readers that have tried this recipe and make it nearly as much as I do.
If you have tried this Quick Pizza Dough - ready in 10 minutes and made from scratch I'd love to hear from you!
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I was talking to my mom on the phone a week or so ago and she was getting ready for they boys to come visit. She asked about what dinners would make them happy -- I think she was worried that they might have some kind of fancy food preferences because I use them as recipe guinea pigs all the time.
Truth be told though, my kids are just like all the other kids. They want tacos, chicken fingers, burgers, and pizza.
For all my Figgy Chicken and Creamy Chicken, Mushroom, and Wild Rice Soups, they would probably be happy with those 4 foods in rotation for all of eternity.
If we are being real here I could probably survive on pizza and tacos without much trouble.(shhh. That's a secret.)
I make homemade pizza about once a week, mostly because I'm cheap and know that I can make dough for about 42 cents, and then cover it with cheese and leftovers and my kids are none the wiser (also a secret).
But after talking to my mom I realized that homemade pizza dough can seem sort of daunting and intimidating if you don't do it all the time.
And most recipes call for like 2 hours of rising and 10 minutes of kneading, and it's pretty much way easier to just pick up the phone and wait for pizza delivery while you check homework or watch TV.
So today I am sharing with you my favorite shortcut - quick pizza dough that is ready to bake in 10 minutes. You can have homemade pizza on the table in 20 minutes flat, and I don't know about you, but I can't get anyone to deliver here that fast (I actually can't get ANYONE to deliver here so maybe I'm out of touch, but seriously -- 20 minutes start to eat is pretty good, right?).
Do I need to knead quick pizza dough?
Yes. But I broke this recipe down into a few super easy steps. And this dough you only have to knead just a LITTLE.
- Stir together the ingredients to form a shaggy dough ...
- Throw the dough on the counter and knead for 4-ish minutes.
- Add more flour if things are too sticky...
- Stretch the dough onto a well-floured surface. Sometimes I make circle pizzas. Sometimes they look like blobs. No one cares. They taste good.
- Put all your toppings on the pizza. If you want to be fancy, this Kale Pesto is soooooooooo good on pizza. Just an idea.
- Bake the pizza.EAT THE PIZZA.
Do I need special equipment to make 10 Minute Pizza Dough?
Nope! I actually really pride myself on developing recipes that only require the bare minimum of basic kitchen necessities. So you can bake this pizza right on a baking sheet (or on the back of a baking sheet!). But if you have the items available (or are just looking to expand your kitchen repertoire), for this 10 Minute Pizza Dough Recipe you can use:
Can I Make This Pizza Dough Ahead of Time?
You can, but I want to caveat this heavily.
If you are serving a crowd and want to just BE PREPARED, you can definitely make this dough ahead, but instead of letting it quick rise covered with a towel ON the stove where it should be warm from the preheated oven, you should keep it in a cooler, drier place (like the countertop), and move it to the stove a few minutes before you are ready to shape it.
This dough works best when you make it and bake it within the hour. If you are looking for a dough you can make a day or so ahead and then refrigerate, I'll suggest my Copycat Mellow Mushroom Pizza Dough, linked below.
Wanna try your hand at other From Scratch Pizza Recipes?
You are definitely gonna want to try these.
Copycat Mellow Mushroom Pizza Dough! This is my homemade version of my FAVORITE restaurant pizza dough. Obviously it takes longer than 10 minutes but it's SO worth it.
Chicken Cordon Bleu Pizza. Chicken! Ham! CHEESE CHEESE AND MORE CHEESE. This is an amazing pizza recipe. So you are gonna want to try it.
Quick Pizza Dough
This Quick Pizza Dough comes together and is ready to bake in just 10 minutes; you can have fresh, hot, homemade pizza on the table in 20!!!
Ingredients
- ¾ cup warm water *See Note*
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast (if you buy the little envelopes you will have some left over. Envelopes typically contain 2 ¼ teaspoons. Fold the remaining yeast up tightly and keep refrigerated for the next time)
- 2 cups all purpose flour, plus more for kneading and dusting your work surfaces
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt (less if you only have table salt handy)
- 1 ½ tablespoons olive oil
- cornmeal (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 500 degrees. NOT BROIL. If you have a pizza stone, be sure it's in the oven before you turn it on (This prevents is from cracking). If you are not using a pizza stone you can use the back of a cookie sheet -- see instructions below.
- Pour the warm water in a large bowl. Add the yeast and let it sit for about a minute until it's looking a little foamy.
- Add the flour, sugar, salt, and olive oil. Stir to combine (I use a sturdy spatula or wooden spoon) and form a shaggy dough.
- Flour a clean work surface and dump the dough onto it. Knead the dough for about 4 minutes, incorporating any dry bits that weren't mixed in the bowl.
- Place the dough back in the bowl and cover it with a kitchen towel (I know the bowl is dirty; it's fine.). Put the bowl on top of the stove (the heat from the oven will make the dough more pliable) and let it sit for 5 minutes.
- While you wait for the dough, get your pizza toppings ready -- grate your cheese, slice onions and peppers, etc.
- If you have a pizza peel, rub it with flour and dust with cornmeal (this prevents sticking). If you do not have a pizza peel you can use a wooden cutting board OR you can assemble and bake on THE BACK of a cookie sheet.
- Divide the dough in half (well-floured hands help) and stretch it carefully into a circle. I like a thinner crust so I just leave a slight lip around the edge of my circle and I stretch it pretty thin but this is all about preference (Note: thicker dough will take a little longer to cook).
- Place your circle on the peel/cutting board/cookie sheet you set up and add your toppings.
- If you are using the cookie sheet, place it right in the oven (middle rack) and bake for 10 minutes.
- If you heated a pizza stone in the oven, carefully slide your pizza off the peel or cutting board and onto the stone. Bake for 10 minutes (more if you opted for a thicker crust) or until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted.
- Repeat with the second dough.
- EAT.
Notes
#1 - I always test my water temp by sticking my fingers under the faucet and letting the water run -- you are looking for just barely warm (I read once to think of a baby's bath water if that gives you a reference point). Too hot will kill the yeast and too cold won't activate it. Your packaging should have a recommended temperature if you're nervous about this.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
2Amount Per Serving: Calories: 197Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 344mgCarbohydrates: 37gFiber: 2gSugar: 1gProtein: 5g
This recipe is THE BOMB. We used bread flour but that was the only substitution and it came out chewy and amazing. We used all the dough to make one big pizza and it still only took 10 minutes!!! Seriously make this pizza dough it rocks.
Also, I let my stand mixer knead for me. Lol.
Thank you, Jennifer!
Hi! I found your recipe a month or two ago and we LOVE it! My husband prefers a little thicker crust, so we don't split the dough. And then the last two weeks, I've been using garlic olive oil instead of original and that has been tasty too! Thanks for the recipe. 🙂
Love these little tweaks, Kelly! Thanks so much for reading!
I am talented at utterly ruining pizza dough. This batch came out perfectly. New recipe go-to!!
OMG!!!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY, HANDS DOWN....THE BEST! I had never made pizza and decided to have a pizza night. I’ve had a pizza stone for 13 years or so and never used it. It was easy to prepare. I made three at a time (kind of like rectagular flatbread pizza) since we had quite a few people over. We like ours thin and crispy and this did not disappoint! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!
Is this active dry yeast or INSTANT active dry yeast? Thanks!
Active Dry Yeast!
It's not too difficult and I can make it for my lunch. Thank for the recipe.
I used to eat out a lot of pizzas but I've never cooked it at home. I think that I can do it right now with your recipe.
im very annoyed and confused as to why the recipe isnt on this page anywhere? i cannot find it at all
I tried making pizza dough for the first time. I used this 10 minutes pizza dough . recipe and the dough came better because of few oopsie daisies 😀 . The pizza came really great , it was fresh , smell good and taste really good. Thank you So much Heather. For me you are pizza God mother 🙂
Hi Heather, I saw your recipe and I can't wait to make it! Ive made homemade bread and pizza dough before, but it takes forever to proof! This is a great alternative!
Very good Recipe. Had to copy by hand as my printer is not printing out correctly right now. Made it once, didn't have as oils in the house so i used coconut oil. as I kneaded the dough i squished the lumps of "oil" and it was the best homemade pizza dough i have tried. I am single so will have to divide recipe in half or find a way to preserve half.
I was just about to make this dough when I realized it doesn’t say how much water to use (at least I can’t find it in the ingredient list) hoping you can help!!
3/4 cup! I am so sorry! I updated the printable card last week and it looks like that ingredient was deleted in the import! It's fixed now!
Ok, maybe I’m having a moment but my husband read it as well.... been using this recepie for months now and love it! Pulled it up today and COULD NOT find how much warm water to use???? Was it changed recently and it got accidentally deleted?!?! Help!
3/4 cup! I am so sorry! I updated the printable card last week and it looks like that ingredient was deleted in the import! It’s fixed now!
I think the recipe is missing how much water to use.
3/4 cup! I am so sorry! I updated the printable card last week and it looks like that ingredient was deleted in the import! It’s fixed now!
I’m not seeing the amount of water in the recipe, on both my phone and computer. We’ve made this recipe dozens of times and LOVE it, but for some reason when I went to look it up this time the amount of water is missing from the recipe. I found it in the comments but just wanted to let you know, in case other people are having the same problem.
3/4 cup! I am so sorry! I updated the printable card last week and it looks like that ingredient was deleted in the import! It’s fixed now!