Thin Crust Pizza

This Thin Crust Pizza is a delicious homemade yeast crust with a simple homemade tomato sauce and topped with mozzarella cheese.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 30

Rise Time 16

Total Time 17

Servings slices, from two large pizzas (14-inch)

Calories 117kcal

Author Meghan

Ingredients

For the Dough:

1¾ - 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus extra for the work surface 8¾ to 10 ounces
½ teaspoon instant or rapid-rise yeast
½ teaspoon honey
½ teaspoon table salt
¼ cup olive oil
¾ cup warm water 110°F

For the Quick Tomato Sauce:

14.5 ounces canned crushed tomatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium garlic clove minced or pressed through a garlic press, about 1 teaspoon
table salt and ground black pepper

For the Toppings:

1 cup Quick Tomato Sauce or more to taste
8 ounces whole milk mozzarella cheese, shredded about 2 cups; fresh buffalo mozzarella is NOT recommended because of the high moisture content

Instructions

Make the Dough:

Pulse 1¾ cups flour, yeast, honey, and salt in a food processor fitted with a dough blade, if possible. Process until combined, about 5 seconds.
½ teaspoon instant or rapid-rise yeast, ½ teaspoon honey, ½ teaspoon table salt
With the machine running, pour the oil and then the water through the feed tube and process until the dough forms a ball, about 30 seconds. If after 30 seconds the dough is sticky and clings to the blade, add the remaining ¼ cup flour 1 tablespoon at a time. Turn the dough out onto a work surface.
¼ cup olive oil, ¾ cup warm water
Divide the dough in half and place each piece in a gallon-sized, heavy-duty zipper-lock bag and seal. Refrigerate overnight or up to 48 hours.

Make the Quick Tomato Sauce:

Process the tomatoes in a food processor until smooth, about 5 pulses.
14.5 ounces canned crushed tomatoes
Heat the oil and garlic in a medium saucepan over medium heat until the garlic is fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in the tomatoes; bring to a simmer and cook, uncovered, until the sauce thickens, about 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 medium garlic clove

Assemble and Bake the Pizza:

One hour before baking the pizza, adjust an oven rack to the lowest position, set a pizza stone on the rack, and heat the oven to 500°F.
Remove the dough from the plastic bags. Set each piece in the center of a lightly floured large sheet of parchment paper. Cover each with two 18-inch lengths of plastic wrap, overlapping them in the center; let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
Setting one piece of dough aside, roll the other into a 14-inch round with an even thickness, using the tackiness of the dough against the parchment to help roll it. If the parchment wrinkles, flip the dough sandwich over and smooth the wrinkles with a metal bench scraper.
Peel the plastic wrap off the top of the rolled dough. Spread ½ cup of the tomato sauce to the edges of the dough. Sprinkle with 1 cup of the cheese.
Slip the dough with the parchment onto a pizza peel or rimless baking sheet. Slide the pizza, parchment and all, on to the hot pizza stone. Bake until a deep golden brown, about 10 minutes. Remove the pizza from the oven with a pizza peel or pull the parchment with the pizza onto a baking sheet. Transfer the pizza to a cutting board, slide the parchment out from under the pizza, and slide it onto a wire rack. Cook 2 minutes until crisp; slide to a cutting board, cut into wedges, and serve.
While the first pizza is baking, repeat steps 6 and 7 to roll and top the second pizza; allow the baking stone ot reheat for 15 minutes after baking the first pizza, then repeat step 8 to bake the second pizza.

Notes

Source: The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook

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