Basil & Garlic Pizza Dough

By Addie

"A flavourful pizza dough that I often make ahead and refrigerate (can be frozen as well). Using the bread machine makes homemade pizza crust extremely easy! I use this dough for flatbread for bruschetta, as well. This recipe makes two 12" thin crust pizzas, one 14" thick crust pizza, or one 15x10" thin crust "party" pizza. You can make this a wheat crust by using half whole wheat and half white flour. (Prep time does not include bread machine processing time.)"

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
• 1 teaspoon basil, dried
• 1 teaspoon fresh garlic
• 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
• 1 tablespoon cornmeal

Preparation

Step 1

Add all ingredients (except cornmeal) into breadmaker in the order suggested by your breadmachine manufacturer. Process on Dough setting. Sprinkle cornmeal on pizza pan.

Turn dough out onto floured board, and knead in any flour necessary to make the dough easy to handle. Roll out dough and place on pizza pan.

Top as you prefer, and bake at 425 for 15 to 25 minutes or until done - edges of crust should be golden, and cheese bubbly.
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REVIEWS:

Made this exactly as stated except without the corn meal! This was great using Fresh Arrabiatta Sauce as the sauce, with some mushrooms and fresh basil on top (turkey pepperoni for DH!) Thanks for posting Katzen! We loved it! Oh and we pre baked it, added topping and then baked it again and it was perfect!

Wow this was such an easy dough to work with and made for a great thin crust pizza. I only made 1/2 of the recipe for one large size pizza. Next time I will pre-bake it, so that it gets nice and crispy when finished baking with the toppings. The only thing I changed was to omit the basil due to 17 yo DS not liking it. Thanks for sharing your recipe.

This is a wonderful, easy to use pizza dough. I used it to make Crazy Garlic Bread and it was flavorful, just the right consistency and easy to work with. I used half the dough and froze the other half. It is a very versatile dough that could be used for many things - pretzels, a loaf of bread, pizza, breadsticks - you name it. Thanks for a delicious recipe!

Wow - this dough rocks! I prepared as listed but had to remove the dough 30 min before it was done in the dough cycle. I bake quite a bit of bread by hand and I could not believe how smooth and elastic this dough was. I had the perfect round pizza crust in no more than 20 seconds, no kidding! The flavour was outstanding as well. My kids are begging for me to make this our go-to crust and they don't have to twist my arm.

What a great crust recipe. I made it in my new Sunbeam $58 bread machine. The flavor of the parmesan cheese stood out.The garlic also added a lot. I cooked it 20 minutes and should have done 18 minutes at 425 degrees. This is a super keeper and I can not wait to make it again.Thanks for this recipe!

We live in South Jersey (southern NJ) where on every corner there is a pizzeria. So we are use to having great pizza. Part of the whole pizza experience is the crust, and this crust is delicious! We added tomato gravy, fresh mozzarella cheese, asiago and bell pepper sausage on one and bacon on the other. Thanks Katzen for an authentic experience.

I made this dough to use for this pizza : Bea's Buffalo Chicken and Blue Cheese Pizza. This is a great dough. Great texture and taste. We made 2 pizza with it so it was not too thick. I didn't use the cornmeal. But for the rest, I did as mentioned.

Tasty crust! Dh would like it more crispy but we all enjoyed it.

I forgot the olive oil, and this dough still turned out great! Probably a little crisper than it might have been otherwise. Can't wait to try it with ALL the ingredients!

Very tasty pizza dough . I was rushed and took it out of the bread maker 25 minutes early and still had a wonderfully risen light dough. I used granulated garlic and not fresh. I did not use it as pizza but baked for about 10 minutes took out of the oven brushed with garlic butter and topped with mozzarella and finished baking for cheesy garlic fingers. I used about half the dough and froze the remaining dough. Definite keeper.

Made for Holiday Tag. Turned out fantastic! Simple ingredients and we will be testing this out as bread sticks next time.It made 2-12" thin crust pizzas just like Kat said it would! I also used Kittencal's Fat-free-no-cook pizza sauce.

OOOoooo, this will be the go-to pizza crust from now on. The only part that took the longest was waiting the 1 1/2 hours for the bread machine to finish the dough cycle. Wonderful tasting dough that gives you just a hint of spice and garlic. Much better than the plaino-plaino pizza dough or even the pre-made. :-)