Gold Medal® Classic Pizza Dough

Name: Gold Medal® Classic Pizza Dough
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 296 milliliters Gold all-purpose flour or Better for Bread® bread flour; 227 grams can pizza sauce; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoons sugar; 1 teaspoon olive or vegetable oil; 118 milliliters water; 2 teaspoons package regular or fast-acting dry yeast

Gold Medal® Classic Pizza Dough is a vegan recipe with 8 servings. One serving contains 94 calories, 4g of protein, and 1g of fat. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 3 hours. If you have vegetable oil, pizza sauce, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. This recipe is typical of Mediterranean cuisine.

Instructions

In a 1-quart saucepan, heat the water over medium heat until warm and an instant-read thermometer reads 105F to 115F. In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm water. With a wooden spoon, stir in half of the flour and all of the oil, salt and sugar. Stir in enough of the remaining flour, 1/4 cup at a time, until dough is easy to handle.

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Cooking Oil

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Kitchen Thermometer

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Sprinkle flour lightly on a countertop or large cutting board.

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All Purpose Flour

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Place dough on floured surface. Knead by folding dough toward you, then with the heels of your hands, pushing dough away from you with a short rocking motion. Move dough a quarter turn and repeat. Continue kneading about 10 minutes, sprinkling surface with more flour if dough starts to stick, until dough is smooth and springy. Spray a large bowl with the cooking spray.

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Place dough in bowl, turning dough to grease all sides. Cover bowl loosely with plastic wrap; let rise in a warm place 20 minutes.

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Wrap

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Gently push your fist into the dough to deflate it. Cover bowl loosely with plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 2 hours but no longer than 48 hours. (If dough should double in size during refrigeration, gently push fist into dough to deflate it.)

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Move the oven rack to the middle position of the oven.

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Heat the oven to 425F.

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Place dough on center of an ungreased cookie sheet or 12-inch pizza pan. Press the dough into a 12-inch round, using floured fingers. Press dough from center to edge so the edge is slightly thicker than the center.

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