Sometimes your go-to recipe websites go down, and you’re left scrambling to find that perfect pizza dough recipe you’ve been using for years. This happened to me with French Guy Cooking’s super legit pizza dough recipe, so I’m backing it up here for easy access.
Full credit goes to Alex from French Guy Cooking - this is his recipe, and you should definitely check out his YouTube channel for the full technique and other amazing cooking content!
If the original site is back up, you can find the recipe at the original URL. There’s also an archived version available on archive.org.
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This recipe makes 3 large pizzas with 70% hydration by default, but you can adjust the number of pizzas below and all ingredients will automatically scale:
Ingredients
- 520g Flour Tipo 00
- 365g Water (or ml)
- 16g Salt
- 1g Fresh Yeast (or 0.5g Instant Yeast)
Recipe Info
Prep Time: 1 hour (active time)
Cook Time: 5 minutes per pizza
Total Rise Time: 8 hours
Hydration: 70%
Instructions
- 1 In a big bowl, add 365 grams of water
- 2 Dissolve 16 grams of salt
- 3 Add 50 grams of flour and mix it well
- 4 Add 1 gram of fresh yeast or half a gram of instant yeast
- 5 Gradually add the remaining 470 grams of flour
- 6 Knead the dough for about 20 minutes or until smooth
- 7 Cover and let it rise for 2 hours at room temperature
- 8 Divide it in three parts and form dough balls
- 9 Let them rise in an airtight container for 6 hours
- 10 Bravo you just made super legit pizza dough!
Recipe originally by Alex from French Guy Cooking. Check out his channel for the full technique and many other fantastic recipes!