Pizza Dough Recipes

When deciding to use a home made pizza recipe, one of the first decisions is what kind of pizza dough recipe you are going to use. When making your own pizza dough, you are blessed with many pizza crust options. There are pizza dough recipes for wheat pizza, New York style pizza, deep dish pizza, hand tossed pizza, thin crust, and many more. Let's take a look at the different pizza dough recipes that are available.

• New York Pizza - New York-style pizza by design has a fluffy, bread-like, outer crust. which leads to a very thin, crispy middle. The crust is usually has a darker brown appearance. New York pizza is known for it's being folded when eaten. When constructing a New York Pizza Dough Recipe, the pizza is assembled on a pizza peel or you can use a sheet pan that has no edges (you need to be able to slide the pizza off of the sheet) and then placed directly on a pizza stone to cook.

• Deep Dish Pizza - Deep Dish Pizza is know for its overall thick pizza. Deep dish pizza is best know from Chicago and began appearing in the 1940's. A true deep dish pizza will feature a buttery crust. In Chicago, you will actually find that some pizza shops create the own home made pizza recipes a little different. The difference between a Chicago style deep dish pizza is that the sauce will be on top of the pizza instead of being under the cheese.

• Thin Crust Pizza - Thin Crust pizza is like a cracker crust, very thin and crunchy. Thin crust dough is very dry while the other dough recipes will be moist. Often times thin crust dough is constructed in very very thin flaky layers.  If you are making your own thin crust dough recipe, you can create this by using your rolling pin and rolling out the dough as thin as possible in one layer. The overall final product should always be crunchy and never soggy.

• Hand Tossed Pizza - Hand Tossed Pizza dough is basically the same as a New York pizza dough recipe. The only real difference is that the consistency of the stretched dough is usually equal throughout the whole pizza. Meaning that a hand tossed pizza dough recipe won't have the big crust and thin center.

• Wheat Pizza - Wheat Pizza Dough is something that has come about in recent years. A wheat pizza dough recipe is often used to make a healthier pizza and to give a different taste to a pizza. The main difference between a wheat pizza dough recipe and a regular pizza dough recipe is that you use whole wheat flour instead of regular flour.

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