Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Pizza dough with beer

Pizza dough with beer. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Pour in the beer and mix well. Spread a handful of flour on your work surface and dump the dough onto it.

The beer adds just a hint of fragrence and flavor in this quick pizza dough. We found this great recipe in the King Arthur Catalog. Another great one from King Arthur Flour. You can have Pizza dough with beer using 6 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pizza dough with beer

1. It's 6 cup of bread flour.
2. You need 1 tbsp of sugar.
3. You need 2 tsp of salt.
4. Prepare 1 packages of yeast.
5. Prepare 3 tbsp of olive oil.
6. Prepare 2 1/4 cup of your favorite beer.

We modified it a bit to match the things we have in our pantry. Please note that the prep time includes the rising time for the dough. In a bowl, combine the beer, yeast and sugar. In a stand mixer or food processor, it is important to work with the plastic blade or the dough hook, combine the flour and salt.

Pizza dough with beer instructions

1. Warm beer to lukewarm.
2. Add sugar and yeast to be and let stand for 10 minutes.
3. In separate bowl mix 2 cups flour, salt, oil.
4. Add beer mixture and mix until smooth.
5. Add additional flour 1 cup at a time until dough is soft and leaves the sides of the bowl.
6. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and knead for 5-6 minutes.
7. Cover and let rise for 1 hour..
8. Preheat oven to 400.
9. Ball dough into desired sizes and roll..
10. Sprinkle pizza pan with cornmeal and place dough on top.
11. Top pizza with your favorite toppings.
12. (Optional) if you like a crisper crust you can bake the dough 10 minutes before topping. I like to do this but just remember as you are topping that it is hot... Gets me every time..
13. Bake for 15-20 minutes. If you like a lot of toppings it will take longer..

With the food processor at medium speed, add the oil and yeast mixture until the mixture forms a soft ball. It's amazing and adding the beer to the dough turns out a delicious thin crispy pizza crust every single time. And don't worry, the alcohol evaporates as you bake the pizza dough. If you prefer a recipe without alcohol, please check out the traditional pizza dough recipe that we also enjoy. As a matter of fact, pizza has it's very own tab (to the far right) on the secondary navigation menu bar on CatholicFoodie.com.

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