Quick and Easy Pizza Recipe (Direct Dough, 4-24h)

Simple recipe which can be made within 4 hours to 24 hours depending on time constraints and desired result.

I developed this recipe for friends who made pizza for the first time, they had limited time and knowledge about pizza making:

Very easy to make and lovely taste. Thank you! – Céline & Jérôme

The recipe is developed to involved the minimum amount of steps, for optimal taste I recommend to rest for at least 24 hours.

Quick and Easy Pizza Recipe (Direct Dough, 4-24h)

Ingredients

• 1,000 kg flour

• 650 ml water (room temperature)

• 6g fresh yeast (or 3 dry)

• 30g salt

• 500g Semolina (very fine couscous for spreading)

  
  

Instructions

• Prepare and rest the dough

  • Mix the fresh yeast and water (not the salt at this stage, avoid direct contact of yeast with salt)

  • Put the flour in a large bowl

  • Pour half water on the flour

  • Mix

  • Pour the rest of the water

  • Mix

  • Add the salt

  • Mix until it forms a single rough dough

  • Rest 15 minutes

• Fold and rest

  • Wet your fingers help the dough to avoid sticking

  • Fold the dough on itself 5 times (grab one side, pull it in the air, bring it back to the center of the dough)

    • https://youtube.com/shorts/GEYm9NVe78Y?si=04jaGTYltnX6zSqp

  • Rest 15 minutes (always covered to avoid the dough from drying on the surface)

  • Fold

  • Rest 15

  • Fold

  • Rest 15

  • Optional: one more fold and 15 minutes rest

• 2h20 before starting to make the pizza, drop the dough on the counter, cover with the bowl to avoid contact with air, rest 20 minutes (optional step)

• 2 hours before making pizza prepare the dough balls

  • Cut the dough in similar weigh portions (at least 280g to get decent sized pizzas), try to avoid using oil or flour at this stage

    • Easy: https://youtube.com/shorts/-YYFag9LSz0?si=XCOkx8CcQPNndbAc

    • Difficult: https://youtube.com/shorts/1UMl3Ya_eD0?si=8laxBAETm6wHHobq

  • Shape the portions in balls (smooth on the surface and well close underneath)

    • https://youtube.com/shorts/tgBqetOQt8w?si=DkSaYgz9Q_b8hEj3

    • https://youtube.com/shorts/c4875KMaEN4?si=faIPwYHo2cWy317L

  • Rest in a tray next to each others (keep some space)

  • At this stage, you can

    • Cook after 2 hours or

    • Put them in the fridge for 24-48 hours and get them out 2 hours before cooking. In this case, I suggest not waiting between « Fold and rest » step and « Prepare the dough balls » step). You can also reduce yeast amount to 5 fresh/3 dry

• Prepare the pizza (remember to never touch the outside crust otherwise you won’t get it rising during cooking)

  • Spread semolina on top of dough ball

  • Get the ball out

  • Drop in the semolina, make it round

  • Flip and keep the top part of the dough ball on top, bottom at the bottom

  • Spread the dough while keeping the "cornicione"/outside crust

    • https://youtube.com/shorts/cgixclmZ4gw?si=JGTNmyF7kZQG0fzy

  • Add toppings (avoid putting too much otherwise it will be difficult to put in the oven)

  • Put on the pizza peel

  • Cook