Same Day Pizza Dough to Make Pizza From Scratch (2024)

Having a pizza dough that can be ready in a couple of hours is a winner. I don’t know about you, but I always decide to make pizza the day of and need a recipe that I can make right away to give me dinner that evening. Not only can this recipe give you same day pizzas dough, but the pizza crust is delectable.

Same Day Pizza Dough

If you want to make pizza for dinner, you can mix this dough at 9 am and have dough ready to bake anytime after 5 pm. Simply mix your flour, water, salt and yeast together in the morning, and it will rise throughout the day and be ready for dinnertime.

This time can be adjusted as needed. For example, say you only think about dinner at noon, you can mix the dough at 12 noon and have it ready to bake anytime after 8 pm for a late dinner.

Tools you May Need

Mixing bowl

Measuring cups/spoons or kitchen scale

Baking sheet

Dough slicer/scraper or knife

Tea Towel or glad wrap

Ingredients

White Flour (quality matters in taste)

Water

Fine Salt

Instant Yeast

How to Make Pizza From Scratch

Mix the dough

Combine flour and water, cover the bowl and let it sit for 20-30 minutes to autolyse.

While you wait for the autolyse period, measure yeast into a small container and add a little water to rehydrate the yeast.

After 20-30 minutes, add yeast and salt to the flour mixture.

Mix the dough by hand by pulling. Do this by reaching your fingers beneath the dough and stretching the dough upward. Then fold the stretched dough overtop of the mixture. Do this 3-4 times all the way around.

Next, slice the dough into quarters using your thumb and index finger as scissors. Once divided into quarters, fold the dough again by reaching underneath and pulling the dough upwards. Do this a couple of times and alternate between pulling and cutting until the dough is well mixed (about 5 minutes).

Leave the dough to relax for 2 minutes, then come back to cut and pull the dough one final time in the mix.

Add some oil to the bowl by lifting the dough.

Cover the bowl and let the dough rise for the next 6 hours (or until double the size).

Fold the Dough

As the dough rises, it will need one “help fold”. This fold is best done in the first 2 hours the dough rises. Uncover the bowl and do the same pull/fold action that you did whilst mixing. Grab the dough underneath and pull upwards, then fold the stretched dough overtop of the dough. Repeat this until you have gone around the dough once.

Shape the Dough into Balls

Flour a baking sheet so that it is ready for the dough balls once they are shaped.

After the dough has doubled in size (about 6 hours later), liberally flour your countertop, your hands, and the part of the bowl where the dough will ease out from.

Help the dough out of the bowl, being careful not to break the dough that has built up gases and gluten structures during its rise.

Use a dough scraper or knife to divide the dough into 6 equal parts.

Once part at a time, pull the edges of one part upwards and fold overtop of the dough. Do this until all the edges are folded inward

With floured hands, pick up the dough ball and place on a part of the countertop that is not floured, inverting the dough so that the top of the dough is now facing down on the countertop.

To shape the dough into a tight ball, with your floured hands pull the dough toward yourself about 3-5 inches and twist it a quarter. Repeat this a couple of times until the dough has formed a tight ball

Place dough ball onto floured baking sheet to rest.

Do this with all 6 parts of the dough until you have 6 dough balls.

Dough Final Rest

Cover the dough with a tea towel or glad wrap and let them rest on your counter for 30 minutes

After 30 minutes, place dough in the fridge to cool for another 30 minutes before baking pizzas. This will prevent the dough from tearing when you prepare your pizzas.

After 30 minutes, you are ready to bake your pizzas!

Tips when Making Homemade Pizza

1. The autolyse period prepares the flour for how it holds liquid and is best to not skip. If you are in a pinch, you can shorter the time.
2. Generally the dough will rise well in 6 hours, however the he rising time may vary depending on which season you are in. In summers, the dough will rise faster. In the winter, it will rise slower. This is also dependent on the ambient temperature in your kitchen.

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Recipe for Quick and Easy Pizza Dough

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