Homemade Pizza Dough With Whole Wheat Flour
This whole wheat pizza dough is made with mostly freshly milled whole wheat flour. I like to double or triple the recipe to make extra for the freezer.
Servings: 2 pizza crusts
Equipment
- Pizza Stone or metal pizza pans
Ingredients
- 2 cups hot water 110-120 degrees
- 2 teaspoons sugar I use unrefined cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cups freshly milled flour or use store-bought wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon instant yeast
- Unbleached bread flour as needed
Instructions
- Add first six ingredients to a stand mixer bowl with a dough hook (I use a Bosch mixer), but you can use any heavy-duty stand mixer with a dough hook.
- Mix together on momentary speed on Bosch Mixer to combine. Then add in unbleached bread flour, as needed, 1 cup at a time, until mixer bowl sides are clean. Be careful not to add too much flour, or the dough will be heavy. You want a soft dough that is not sticky
- Knead on medium speed for about 4 minutes.
- Stop the mixer and let the dough rest while you make the pizza sauce (recipe in notes below) and prepare the toppings you want to use.
- Remove dough from mixer, divide, and press out onto two large greased baking sheets or pizza pans.
- Pre-bake the crusts for 8 minutes at 425 degrees. Then add the sauce and toppings.
- After adding the pizza sauce and toppings, bake pizzas at 425 degrees for 10-15 minutes on a lower rack until the cheese is bubbly and lightly browned.
Notes
Simple Homemade Pizza Sauce
- 3 tsp. olive oil
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 cups chunky tomato sauce
- 1–6 oz. can of tomato paste
- 1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
- pinch of oregano
- 2 tsp. sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
- Sauté the onion and garlic in a saucepan with the olive oil. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Spread on top of pre-baked pizza crusts and add toppings. Then bake according to crust recipe above.
I almost always make extra pizza crusts, pre-bake them, and freeze them. It makes having homemade pizza so easy!
To freeze the crusts, I just roll them out on the pan and pre-bake for 8 minutes at 425 degrees. After they cool completely, I remove them from the pan, wrap them with plastic wrap, and freeze.
When I am ready to use them, I just remove the crusts from the freezer (I make two at a time), put them each on a pizza pan, and let them sit on the counter while I make the sauce and prepare the toppings. I also preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
While I'm making the sauce and toppings, the crusts begin to thaw slightly. I then add sauce and toppings and bake them for 10-15 minutes at 425 degrees.
