Thin Crust for Pizza Recipe

Thin crust pizza dough recipe.  You don't have to buy a mix and then do all the work of making a pizza crust, when you probably have all that you need to make one from scratch at home!

Makes enough for one crust, approximately 16 X 10 1/2.

1 C flour, plus a bit more for rolling

1/2 t baking powder

1/4 t salt

2 T shortening, cut into peanut sized pieces

6 oz milk

olive oil

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

In a large bowl, combine all ingredient but the olive oil

With a hand mixer, blend until dough sticks together

On a lightly floured surface, turn dough out and kneed 12 times

Roll in an oblong manner to fit the largest baking pan you have

It will be thin, about 1/8 inch thick

Place onto baking sheet, and drizzle olive oil, spreading across dough with your fingers

Bake for 8 minutes, the pizza may form small air pockets

Remove from oven, apply sauce and thinly sliced toppings, and bake at 425 degrees (a slightly lower temp) until cheese is melted and ingredients cooked.

Dotted with anchovy paste before topping

*If possible, roll dough thinner toward the middle and a hair thicker toward the edges

**Use only enough oil to thinly coat the surface, paying special attention to the edges, which will be driest.

***If your crust comes out mushy or dough-like in the middle, you haven’t rolled it thin enough!


You didn't think I would show you a finished pizza made in this house, did you?  Nah, it doesn't sit still long enough once baked to be photographed.  It's too busy being cut and shuffled onto our plates!