KitchenAid Pizza Dough Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Is the KitchenAid mixer good for pizza dough? ›

Making pizza dough with your KitchenAid^® stand mixer is a simple and easy process with the help of attachments and accessories like the Dough Hook. While your pizza dough recipe may vary, use these tips as a general guide for how to make a basic pizza crust in a KitchenAid^® stand mixer.

While the stand mixer heats the dough a little bit, it doesn't get nearly as warm as a dough kneaded in a food processor, so you can knead for a much longer time without any fear of overheating the yeast. It's also unlikely that you'll overknead a dough with a stand mixer.

With a stand mixer or food processor (use the kneading hook or plastic blade respectively), combine the flour, yeast and salt. Add the water mixture and mix on medium speed or process until the dough forms a soft ball. Transfer the dough to a floured surface and knead until smooth, about 5 minutes.

Attach your flat beater, add your ingredients to the stand mixer bowl and mix to combine the ingredients whilst kneading on speed 1. Remove your flat beater and attached your dough hook, and knead the dough for 5 minutes on low speed (1 & 2). Always ensure that you knead on low speed so as not to overheat the motor.

Use of a higher speed can sometimes cause ingredients to splash out of the bowl. The pastry beater is not a good choice for bread doughs, like pizza doughs. It's best to use the dough hook for any recipes that require kneading.

What speed should you use for a dough hook? For best results, you should only use speed 2. Using a lower speed won't provide enough momentum to knead the dough properly, and a higher speed may quickly overwork the dough.

Overmixing your dough leads to a dough ball that will not want to stretch and will keep snapping back to a smaller size. Overmixing is not the only thing that leads to snapping back. Over balling your dough will also contribute.

DOUGH HOOK

KitchenAid brand offers two types of dough hook accessories–“C” shaped or Spiral shaped depending on your stand mixer and bowl model. These are curved, hook-shaped stand mixer accessories specifically made for kneading dough. A dough hook comes standard with your KitchenAid^® stand mixer.

For best results when using prepared pizza dough, let the dough rest at room temperature in the bag or covered, until it has risen a little, and then try to stretch it out.

Mix for 1 minute on speed 2 until a sticky dough forms. Turn the mixer to speed 2 and knead for 8 minutes. The dough should be smooth and spongy. Transfer the dough onto a floured surface.

What is the trick to pizza dough? ›

For Crispy and Chewy Pizza Crust, Use 00 Flour

00 flour is finely ground Italian flour that contains about 12% protein, or 12% gluten. It's the traditional flour used to make Neapolitan-style pizza. Since its gluten content is similar to bread flour, it also produces a pizza crust with chew.

If you're baking the pizza in the oven, whether on a pizza stone or not, I always pre-bake the dough for 4-5 minutes before adding toppings, to make sure the pizza dough cooks crisp on the outside and soft and airy in the middle. Once you add the Pizza Sauce and toppings, return it to the oven to finish baking.

Spiral Mixers

It's best suited for pizzerias handling medium to large-duty mixing tasks or professional bakers working with high-hydration dough.

In our testing, we found the KitchenAid Artisan series was the best tilt-head stand mixer. It creamed butter efficiently and kneaded pizza dough with minimal strain. It was also easy and intuitive to use.

Stand Mixer for Kneading Dough. Certain doughs require kneading in order to incorporate air and develop gluten, the protein that helps give some bread and pizza doughs structure. Food processors and stand mixers help minimize the mess and speed up the kneading process.

Making Bread in KitchenAid Stand Mixer. The mixer's planetary action gives it a much faster mixing and kneading action than by hand or with mixers made by other manufacturers. Because of this, the kneading time can be significantly reduced in most bread recipes.