How to Make Overnight Pizza Dough Recipe

New York Italian Pizza Dough

You can use the dough that evening or anytime over the next two days to make pizza or focaccia, using any of the recipes in chapter 14.

Recipe Summary New York Italian Pizza Dough

A really wet, sticky pizza dough that bakes up to perfection! Simple ingredients and technique in this dough make your pizza crust authentic, crispy and chewy just like your favorite NY brick oven joint. This recipe makes enough for three 10- to 12-inch pizzas, two 12- to 14-inch pizzas, one 16- to 18-inch pizza, or 6 to 8 small single serving stromboli.

Ingredients | Overnight Pizza Dough Recipe

2 ½ cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)

2 teaspoons salt

4 ½ cups bread flour

2 teaspoons active dry yeast

¼ cup bread flour, or more if needed

1 tablespoon olive oil

Directions

Pour the warm water into the pan of a bread machine, sprinkle in the salt, and add the flour to the pan so the flour sits on top of the water. Make a hole in the top of the flour, and spoon the yeast into the hole. Let the mixture sit for 20 minutes to moisten the flour. Set the bread machine to the knead setting, and knead the dough for about 10 minutes. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface, and knead in 1/4 cup more flour or as needed, adding the flour about 2 tablespoons at a time, to make a wet, sticky, but elastic dough. The dough should be "as soft as a baby's bottom." Form the dough into a round shape.

Wipe the inside of a large bowl with olive oil, and place the round ball of dough into the bowl. Turn the dough over a couple of times so the dough picks up a thin coating of oil. Cover with a cloth, and refrigerate the dough for 10 hours or overnight.

The next day, allow the dough to come to room temperature before rolling out on a floured surface and adding toppings as desired. Roll the dough out thin with a thicker edge before adding toppings.

Place a pizza stone into oven, dust it with a little flour, and preheat oven to 500 degrees F (260 degrees C). Bake the pizza on the stone in the preheated oven until the bottom of the crust is browned, 6 to 8 minutes.

This dough can be made in a bread machine on the quick dough cycle if you prefer. If you do it in a bowl, you really need a dough mixer because this dough will be, and remain, pretty sticky, and it's impossible to work with it with your hands. It's important for the crust texture that it be a very soft, wet dough.

Info | Overnight Pizza Dough Recipe

prep: 30 mins cook: 6 mins additional: 10 hrs total: 10 hrs 36 mins Servings: 8 Yield: 8 servings

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Overnight Pizza Dough Recipe / For tips on kneading and rolling out pizza dough, see our video kneading and forming pizza dough or our tip how to roll out pizza dough.