Pizza Dough

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 cup wine (red or , whatever you have on hand)
• 3/4 cup water
• 1 package yeast
• 1 pinch sugar
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons water
• 3 1/2 cups flour

Recipe

• 1 dissolve yeast and sugar in the warm water and wine.
• 2 let sit for approximately five minutes, until yeast bubbles.
• 3 dissolve the salt in the 2 tablespoons of water.
• 4 stir honey and oil into yeast mixture.
• 5 stir in one cup of flour and mix with a wooden spoon until it forms a thin batter.
• 6 stir in the salt and water mixture.
• 7 add 2 cups of flour and stir until you can no longer mix in any more flour with the spoon.
• 8 turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead for approximately 10 minutes, until the dough is smooth and shiny.
• 9 it may be a bit sticky, that's fine.
• 10 spray a bowl with oil and place the dough in the bowl.
• 11 spray the top of the dough with oil and cover with plastic wrap.
• 12 allow the dough to rise for 45 minutes (or until doubled in volume) in a warm area.
• 13 ***the more times you let the dough rise, the better it will be.
• 14 if you can, punch it down after the first rising and let it rise again.
• 15 divide the dough into 4 pieces for individual pizzas, 2 pieces for small pizzas or leave as 1 piece for 1 large pizza.
• 16 roll the dough out into rounds and let rest for 15 minutes.