Easy Kitchenaid Mixer Pizza Dough

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup hot water
• 1 1/4 ounces fast rising yeast
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 1/4 cups bread flour

Recipe

• 1 put water in mixer bowl and sprinkle yeast over water to dissolve.
• 2 mix water and yeast with whisk attachment until foamy.
• 3 add olive oil, salt, oregano and honey and whisk together until well blended.
• 4 add 1 cup of flour and mix together.
• 5 remove whisk attachment scraping dough mixture into bowl and attach bread hook to mixer.
• 6 add another cup of flour and mix on low speed until well incorporated and dough is not "sticky". if dough is too sticky, add the additonal 1/4 cup (or more) of flour until it resembles bread dough.
• 7 mix dough on medium speed for 5-7 minutes until it is elastic and smooth.
• 8 remove dough ball from mixer and place in an oiled bowl large enough for the dough to double in size.cover bowl with a damp cloth and allow dough to rise in a warm place, away from drafts.
• 9 when dough is doubled in size (15-20 minutes), remove from bowl and punch down dough, roll out to desired thickness and shape.
• 10 drizzle olive oil on rolled out dough, sprinkle with additonal dried oregano and kosher salt, and top as desired.
• 11 bake on a perforated pizza pan in a very hot (500 degree) oven. start pizza on bottom rack for 5 minutes. using a pizza peal, slide the peal underneath the pan and move the pizza to the oven's top rack. continue baking until crust is browned, and toppings are heated (5-7 minutes more).
• 12 using the pizza peal, remove the pizza pan from the oven carefully. place pan on a heat proof surface, then use the pizza peal to remove the pizza from the pan. allow pizza to cool for 2 minutes on the peal, then slice as desired using a pizza cutter.