Pizza Dough

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I made this dough today, I followed the recipe exactly. It was a great success!!
It rolled out like a dream. I grilled it outside on a gas grill. I grilled bothsides and then layered my toppings, fresh pesto, mozzerella, diced peppers ,grilled chicken and carmelized onions. I then turned up the heat and placed the pizza on foil, (so it won't burn and closed the lid a couple of minutes until the cheese melted. YUM!! The crust glistened with the evoo, it had a crisp bite and a tender
chew. I will always make this dough in the future!! Thanks Giada!!!

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But as always I read the comments before I do, and I must say I am not surprised about all the comments regarding needed to add more water. My first reaction to the recipe was "1 1/2 cups of water to 5 cups of flour???" Most recipes I've made are a cup of water to 3 cups of flour, but I wanted a recipe with a bigger yield of dough.

However, I will start with the recipe and add more water gradually. Thanks Food Network fans for always coming through!

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I just used this recipe to make dough for my grilled pizza check it out!!

http://grillingwithrich.blogspot.com/2010/08/grilling-pizza-take-2-winning-item-that.html

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Very easy to make and restaurant quality. Loved the "yeast" of it!

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I made my first pastry dough today, I thought five cups of flour was too much for just one person and consideredered halving it. I'm glad I didn't, I followed the instructions exactly. The water was tepid, or blood warm so I didn't kill the yeast. After two hours I looked at the dough, I couldn't believe how much it had grown to fill the large mixing bowl. Instead of dividing it into three, I quartered it and put three balls of dough into airtight containers and placed them in the freezer. Next I rolled the one quarter piece of dough as thin as I could to fit a 10"x12" cookie sheet and spread on a 15 oz can of strained tomatoes, and sprinkied some frozen stir fry pepper mix vegetables and frozen vegetarian sausage pieices, I covered the pizza with a damp cloth and let it rise for about an hour, then covered it with about 4 oz of grated cheddar cheese I set the roaster toaster oven to 375 degrees, after about 5 minutes of pre heating I placed the pizza in the oven for about 20 minutes. It came out great. Next time I think I'll take it off the cookie sheet after 15 minutes and put it on the shelf for 5 minutes so it will get crispier underneath. I will also use more salt. I usually buy supermarket frozen pizzas. I liked this much better. I can't wait to make 3 more from the frozen dough in the freezer. I read that you can freeze dough for a month.

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I made this dough for the first time today and it turned out delicious! I've made other pizza doughs before that I followed accurately and they turned out very thick and dry. This was neither. I did have to add a lot more water though; it's been very humid here and I think that's why. I did the 1 1/2 cups of water with 5 cups of flour, and probably added another 1/4 cup of water at least. In total it made 3 12-13" pizzas. I put cornmeal and olive oil on the bottom and drizzled olive oil on top as well - so moist and crunch at the same time! I will definitely use it again.

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Loved the results

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Very easy to follow and excellent results!!! It was a family project during a sleepover!!!

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This dough made the best pizza crust I've ever had! It came out with very delicious crunchy crust and we loved it!!

I started out with 1 cup of water and 4 cups of flour. The dough was tough and it was hard to knead. Though it was my first time making pizza dough, I could tell it needed more liquid. I ended up adding quite a bit of water to reach the right texture, and kneaded till it became nicely soft smooth and elastic which actually took me about 25 min. So, I guess, don't be afraid to add water and knead well till it's ready to rest.

This recipe was so easy and came out so well that it gave me such a confidence in baking. Thank you, Giada! I enjoy your show everyday!

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This dough came out perfectly. Sooo easy to make, delicious. And...it makes 3 crusts!!! Thanks Giada!!!!