Homemade Pizza Dough in Your Bread Maker

Homemade pizza dough. In your bread maker. Everyone will think that you slaved over your dough, kneading countless times and covering your counters in enough flour that you keep finding it even after cleaning a minimum of 7 times. But in reality, you simply poured your ingredients into your bread maker, pushed 1, maybe 2, buttons, and presto! Pizza dough. No mess, no kneading, no messy counters. This is my new go-to after buying one too many pizza dough balls in a bag. It's the freshest thing you're going to find besides going to Italy yourself.

Homemade Pizza Dough

Ingredients:

• 1 cup water, room temperature
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. active dry yeast
• optional add-ins: garlic, rosemary, parsley, basil, oregano

In the bowl of your bread maker, place the ingredients according the your specific maker's instructions (for instance, my bread maker requires wet, dry, then yeast in that particular order). 

Turn on the bread maker to the dough cycle. All of the work is done for you!

If you are not going to use the dough immediately, place into a bowl, greased with oil, and cover with plastic wrap for up to 1 day.