Pizza Dough - Crispy & Soft Crust

Instructions

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   To prepare the pizza dough, we chose to knead everything by hand, but if you prefer to use a mixer, you can follow the same procedure, using the dough hook at a low to medium speed. First, pour the two flours into a bowl, sprinkle the yeast inside, and pour in some of the water. The ideal temperature of the water is 25°C.

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   Mix with a wooden spoon and slowly add the water. Continue mixing, and when you have added about half of the water, you can also add the salt.

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   Then add the remaining water, always slowly, until you get a homogeneous mixture; use your hands to work it better. Finally, transfer the dough to a work surface and knead it with your hands 8-10 times until it is smooth and homogeneous.

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   Once you have obtained a nice smooth ball, let it rest on the work surface for about ten minutes, covering it with a bowl. Once rested, fold the dough: imagine that the sphere is divided into 4 parts, take the end of each, gently pull it and fold it towards the center. Then fold the dough.

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   Turn it over on itself, give it the shape of a sphere. Transfer the dough to a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let it rise. For convenience, you can place the bowl in the oven turned off but with the light on, so the inside will reach a temperature of 26-28°C, ideal for rising; alternatively, you can also place the bowl in a warm place. The times are approximate because each dough, the temperature, and weather conditions influence the rising: on average, the dough should take 6 hours to double in volume.

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   After the rising time, the dough will be nice and puffy, so transfer it to the work surface and divide it with a dough scraper into 3 pieces of 265 g each. If necessary, you can lightly flour the work surface. Now take each portion and, as before, lift a flap of dough and bring it towards the inside.

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   Then repeat the same thing for the other 3 flaps of dough. Then stretch the dough by folding it on itself and proceed with the rolling: rolling the dough means making it spin with your hands on the work surface, bringing it towards you and then away from you repeatedly until you get a smooth and regular sphere.

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   Gradually transfer the dough balls to a pizza pan that has been previously greased, cover with the lid, and let them rest for another 30 minutes before you can stretch the pizza dough and top it to your liking!