Last month I tried a new pizza dough recipe.  A few months before that, I had read in Men’s Health about an easy pizza dough that did not require hours of preparation (I had been using a no-knead dough recipe that required an 18 hour rise (more details below).  I am always looking for both more efficient and tasty recipes for pizza dough.  My wife enjoys the one I had been making but I am all for tweaking and improving so I decided to try this new (to me) recipe.  I was fairly certain I had left the magazine in a spot in my treadmill room but lo and behold it wasn’t there.  I resorted to trying to google the same recipe and don’t know if it was the exact one I had read about initially but I went with it.

Quicker pizza dough ingredients:

• 6 cups AP flour
• 2 1/4 cups room temperature water (recipe called for cold water)
• 1/2 tsp active dry yeast
• 1 Tbsp kosher salt

1.  Add 3 cups of flour and 1/2 tsp yeast to 2 1/4 cups of water in a large bowl and combine
2. In a separate bowl, mix remaining 3 cups of flour with the salt.
3. I then added in the flour mix to the flour-water combination (from step 1) and kneaded it within the bowl for about 5 minutes.
4. I let the dough rest – covered – for 30 minutes.
5. The dough was separated into 4 (relatively) parts and 3 of them saved in saran wrap and frozen for later use.
6. I split the dough into 2 balls and made pizzas from them.

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