Hubby’s Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe

Every two to three weeks we like to have family night and when we do…we get together and make a few homemade pizzas! While we could go out to the grocery store and buy prepackaged dough…we prefer the homemade taste!

This pizza dough recipe will make three round pizza dough. You can freeze the dough once prepared for later use for up to 2 months.

We used the dough to make chicken, spinach, tomato and extra cheese topped pizza along with my homemade pizza sauce. It was delicious!

Hubby’s Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe

1/4 cup warm water
2 envelopes dry yeast
1 tablespoons sugar

Mix together the above three ingredients in a large mixing bowl; cover and let the mixture stand at room temperature for 6 minutes.

6 cups flour
1 1/2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
2 cups warm water

In a large mixing bowl mix together the vegetable shortening (cut it into the flour), salt, sugar and the 2 cups of warm water. Mix the ingredients from both bowls together, cover and let stand until the dough doubles in size (about 30 minutes). You need to use your hands every 5 to 10 minutes to knead the dough to help it to rise properly.

Once it has doubled in size…it is ready to use or freeze it for later use (break it down into 3 equal portions).

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