Homemade pizza

Step 3 Making the dough

I converted the percentages as well as I could, some amounts are pretty small.

Dough Ingredients:

1-3/4 Cups plus 1/2 T All Purpose Flour
1 T Vital Wheat Gluten
1 tsp salt
0.18 tsp instant yeast, a little less than 1/4 tsp - 1/4 tsp active dry yeast can substituted*
1/2 Cup plus 1/8 C water
1/2 tsp olive oil

T = tablespoon
tsp = teaspoon

Combine the dry ingredients into a mixer bowl*. Mix well. Slowly add the water and mix until the dough forms. If you have a dough hook on your mixer, great. You could probably make this dough in a bread machine but I have never tried.
Add olive oil and continue to mix. If after 5 minutes of mixing the dough hasn't come together, add a few drops of water at a time until the dough forms. Use extra water sparingly.
Knead the dough in the mixer until its soft and smooth at a medium speed, about 10 minutes. If the dough is sticky, sprinkle a little flour in. The dough should feel moist and slightly tacky but not sticky.

*If you are using active dry yeast, I would hydrate it in 1/2 cup of the water heated to 110-115 deg. Let it sit and dissolve and maybe froth up a bit. Then add at the same time as the water. Your yeast should come with instructions.

Comments

[Rowleysh]

I've heard that metal will deactivate yeast, but I may be wrong...