Faster Than Delivery: Homemade Pizza (with 5 minute dough)
Sure, takeout pizza is pretty cheap, and very easy and isn’t that the point? With a batch of 5-minute bread dough and fresh (or frozen) ingredients you can have pizza cheaper and quicker than waiting for delivery.
Our kids enjoy eating anything more when they’ve had a hand in making it themselves. (And, recently, our son is a bit whacked and likes his pizza with only pepperoni. No cheese. Just pepperoni. Would a pizza joint even make that for us?)
Homemade pizza is fun and easy and I defy you to find a tastier crust that isn’t loaded with fat.
Here’s the How-to:
- At least 1/4 batch of 5 minute Bread Dough (I use half a batch in this recipe). Here’s more info on the cookbook “Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes A Day”.
- 1 can of crushed tomatoes (A.K.A. Poor man’s tomato sauce)
- 1-2 cups of grated mozzarella cheese
- other toppings you dig (we keep sliced pepperoni in our freezer to always be ready, but other meat and vegetable toppings work well in the from-freezer-to-pizza too)
- other seasonings you like (we use mostly garlic and basil)
1. Take out your 5-minute Bread from the fridge and score it with a wet serrated knife (if your dough is fresh and uncut like ours was). One batch should make 4 pizzas (or loaves, or whatever).
3. Toughest step. Using floured hands, pull a hunk of dough out of your plastic container. It will look crazy messy to start with. Smooth it with both hands, tucking the messy bits underneath. This is meant to be a quick step. (The book authors call this the ‘Gluten Cloak’. I just call it it ‘Tuck it into a ball as fast as you can before it starts sticking to your damn hands’. They are just better with names than I am.)
9. Completed pizzas. Can you tell our daughter made the one on the left? She believes that pizzas with flower formation toppings are just tastier. Notice the 1/3rd with only sauce and pepperoni. Now you can make your crazy kid requests at home and not have to worry about the delivery place messing it up (or questioning your parenting).
The other 5 minute bread recipe I will post needs a baking stone and a steam tray, but this one cooks just fine on the rack like normal pizza.
10. Bake at 450F for 15 mins (+/-) or until the cheese looks bubbly and golden.
Click here for a Free Printable/Tablet-friendly Recipe:
This recipe is one of the meals on our Meal Plan Master List. Check it out here.
Here’re links to the many ways we use this dough (We’re always experimenting, so expect more to come):
- This post covers the Basic Dough (Start here!)
- Basic Artisan Loaf
- Sandwich Style Loaf
- Easy Naan
- Cinnamon Buns
- Pull Apart Monkey Bread Recipe
Robin and Ed are a DIY-loving couple with over 25 years of design and build experience. Also, Robin is a Nutritionist and former Registered Dietitian and Ed is an award-winning Business Educator. We share strategies for living a rich life on a DIY budget: creative money-savvy ideas for a stylish home, healthy meals and family fun. Our work has been published in the pages of Do It Yourself, Farmhouse Style and Better Homes & Gardens magazines.
This is my favourite pizza dough. I've used many different recipes but this is a family fave. I've got away from it because I don't always have prepared in the fridge. But it's so good I need to recommit.
It is definitely, hands down, our favourite too!