This super quick dough recipe is made with simple, basic ingredients—though a couple may surprise you!

Flour
This pizza dough works well with a variety of flours. Here are your options (use the same amount regardless):

Whole wheat flour yields dough with just a hint of nutty wheat flavor. I don’t find it distracting.
White whole wheat flour, which is made with white wheat berries instead of red, yields 100 percent whole wheat dough with an almost undetectable amount of wheat flavor.
All-purpose flour works well if that’s what you have on hand.
Do not use whole wheat pastry flour; it doesn’t contain enough gluten to cooperate with yeast.
Here’s how to measure flour into cups using the “spoon and swoop” method:

Gently stir your flour with a large spoon to loosen it up.
Spoon the flour into your measuring cup (don’t scoop it in!).
Level off the excess with a butter knife.

How about pizza tonight? Homemade pizza nights should be fun and easy, and that’s where this pizza dough recipe comes into play. It’s ready in 15 minutes, start to finish. That’s a lot faster than delivery!

This quick pizza dough yields a crust of medium thickness that’s crisp across the bottom and a little chewy in the middle. It has a lovely, yeasty flavor with just a hint of whole wheat. I love this dough so much that I shared it in my cookbook, Love Real Food.
This dough doesn’t have the elusive, stretchy, chewy, sourdough texture that I crave in authentic brick oven pizza. This homemade dough is fantastic, though. A few reasons to love this recipe:

It’s made from scratch with basic, wholesome ingredients.
You can make it in your food processor (or by hand).
This dough requires zero proofing time. You can make your pizzas right away.
The dough requires minimal effort—just a couple of kneads and a few rolls with a rolling pin.
Let’s make some pizzas!

How about pizza tonight? Homemade pizza nights should be fun and easy, and that’s where this pizza dough recipe comes into play. It’s ready in 15 minutes, start to finish. That’s a lot faster than delivery!

This quick pizza dough yields a crust of medium thickness that’s crisp across the bottom and a little chewy in the middle. It has a lovely, yeasty flavor with just a hint of whole wheat. I love this dough so much that I shared it in my cookbook, Love Real Food.
This dough doesn’t have the elusive, stretchy, chewy, sourdough texture that I crave in authentic brick oven pizza. This homemade dough is fantastic, though. A few reasons to love this recipe:

It’s made from scratch with basic, wholesome ingredients.
You can make it in your food processor (or by hand).
This dough requires zero proofing time. You can make your pizzas right away.
The dough requires minimal effort—just a couple of kneads and a few rolls with a rolling pin.
Let’s make some pizzas!

I’ve received quite a few questions about this dough recipe over the years. In short, this dough is best made as directed and used right away!

Make the white sauce by placing the tapioca flour, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, mustard, almond milk and a pinch of salt into a pan over a medium heat, and cook until the mixture begins to bubble, continuously whisking to ensure the mixture stays smooth and doesn’t form any lumps.

Problem: The extra moisture from the additional liquid sweetener made the muffins flatten out on the top. I wanted beautifully domed, fluffy muffins, so I tried decreasing the amount of yogurt, tweaking the baking powder and baking soda, and I was almost ready to give up…

Solution: I went back to the original formula and added 1/4 cup more flour. The muffins rose like a dream!

Eight tries later, I landed on perfect cranberry orange muffins! I hope you’ll make them while cranberries are still in season.

This super quick dough recipe is made with simple, basic ingredients—though a couple may surprise you!

Flour
This pizza dough works well with a variety of flours. Here are your options (use the same amount regardless):

Whole wheat flour yields dough with just a hint of nutty wheat flavor. I don’t find it distracting.
White whole wheat flour, which is made with white wheat berries instead of red, yields 100 percent whole wheat dough with an almost undetectable amount of wheat flavor.
All-purpose flour works well if that’s what you have on hand.
Do not use whole wheat pastry flour; it doesn’t contain enough gluten to cooperate with yeast.
Here’s how to measure flour into cups using the “spoon and swoop” method:

Gently stir your flour with a large spoon to loosen it up.
Spoon the flour into your measuring cup (don’t scoop it in!).
Level off the excess with a butter knife.

how to make pizza dough

I searched to the ends of the internet to find a simple, foolproof, quick whole wheat pizza dough recipe. I went through a couple of bags of flour in the process and made quite a mess.

First, Jim Lahey’s no-knead dough failed me at least three times. I think it was because I was making it with whole wheat pastry flour. Lesson learned: Whole wheat pastry flour and yeast don’t get along.

I also tried Cook’s Country’s skillet dough, which turns out to be fried flatbread. No thanks.

It’s made from scratch with basic, wholesome ingredients.
You can make it in your food processor (or by hand).
This dough requires zero proofing time. You can make your pizzas right away.
The dough requires minimal effort—just a couple of kneads and a few rolls with a rolling pin.
Let’s make some pizzas!

Finally, I turned to one of my favorite bloggers and sweetest friends, Melissa of The Fauxmartha. She posted an adaptation of Cook’s Country’s quick grilled pizza dough. My version is a combination of the two and is made with 100 percent whole wheat flour.

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How about pizza tonight? Homemade pizza nights should be fun and easy, and that’s where this pizza dough recipe comes into play. It’s ready in 15 minutes, start to finish. That’s a lot faster than delivery!

This quick pizza dough yields a crust of medium thickness that’s crisp across the bottom and a little chewy in the middle. It has a lovely, yeasty flavor with just a hint of whole wheat. I love this dough so much that I shared it in my cookbook, Love Real Food.

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This dough doesn’t have the elusive, stretchy, chewy, sourdough texture that I crave in authentic brick oven pizza. This homemade dough is fantastic, though. A few reasons to love this recipe:

It’s made from scratch with basic, wholesome ingredients.
You can make it in your food processor (or by hand).
This dough requires zero proofing time. You can make your pizzas right away.
The dough requires minimal effort—just a couple of kneads and a few rolls with a rolling pin.
Let’s make some pizzas!

This super quick dough recipe is made with simple, basic ingredients—though a couple may surprise you!

Flour
This pizza dough works well with a variety of flours. Here are your options (use the same amount regardless):

Whole wheat flour yields dough with just a hint of nutty wheat flavor. I don’t find it distracting.
White whole wheat flour, which is made with white wheat berries instead of red, yields 100 percent whole wheat dough with an almost undetectable amount of wheat flavor.
All-purpose flour works well if that’s what you have on hand.
Do not use whole wheat pastry flour; it doesn’t contain enough gluten to cooperate with yeast.
Here’s how to measure flour into cups using the “spoon and swoop” method:

Gently stir your flour with a large spoon to loosen it up.
Spoon the flour into your measuring cup (don’t scoop it in!).
Level off the excess with a butter knife.

How about pizza tonight? Homemade pizza nights should be fun and easy, and that’s where this pizza dough recipe comes into play. It’s ready in 15 minutes, start to finish. That’s a lot faster than delivery!

This quick pizza dough yields a crust of medium thickness that’s crisp across the bottom and a little chewy in the middle. It has a lovely, yeasty flavor with just a hint of whole wheat. I love this dough so much that I shared it in my cookbook, Love Real Food.
This dough doesn’t have the elusive, stretchy, chewy, sourdough texture that I crave in authentic brick oven pizza. This homemade dough is fantastic, though. A few reasons to love this recipe:

It’s made from scratch with basic, wholesome ingredients.
You can make it in your food processor (or by hand).
This dough requires zero proofing time. You can make your pizzas right away.
The dough requires minimal effort—just a couple of kneads and a few rolls with a rolling pin.
Let’s make some pizzas!