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How to Make Homemade Pizza Dough from Scratch

A delicious and easy recipe that comes together quickly with simple ingredients.

Ingredients

• Dough
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tbs sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tbs shortening
• 1 1/4 cups warm water
• 1 tbs active dry yeast
• 2tbs vegetable oil

Instructions

1. 1Attach dough hook to standing mixer
2. 2In standing mixer bowl add sugar, salt, yeast, shortening and water in that order. Turn mixer on.
3. 3Add flour. Let dough hook stir mixture until flour starts to come together.
4. 4Drizzle oil on sides of bowl and continue mixing until dough begins to form. Scrape remaining flour off sides of bowl and mix in with hands. Dough should not be sticky.
5. 5Cover bowl with kitchen towel and set in warm dry place to let rise, about 45 minutes
6. 6Remove risen dough from bowl and form ball with hands. Ready to use..