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Pizza from Scratch

Cooking Guide

Pizza from Scratch

A true from-scratch Neapolitan-style pizza: a slow-fermented dough, a bright hand-crushed tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and basil, baked as hot as your oven will go.

  • Bread
  • Italian
  • Main
  • Savory
  • Contains
  • milk
  • wheat/gluten
  • vegetarian

Cooking Guide

Step 1
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Mix the dough. Combine the flour and yeast in a bowl, add the water, and stir until no dry flour remains. Cover and rest 20 minutes.

The Why

Letting the flour hydrate fully before you work it (an autolyse) builds gluten with almost no kneading and makes the dough far easier to stretch later.

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Version history

  • v1current7/13/2026