Fail-proof Gluten Free Pizza Dough Recipe

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

This fail-proof pizza dough turns out a perfect, restaurant style pizza every time. From thin crust to Chicago style deep dish, this is the only pizza dough recipe you'll need!
Fail-proof pizza dough recipe from "The only pizza dough recipe you'll need!"

Serves 4 to 6

Fail-proof Pizza Dough Recipe

How do you like your pizza? Thin crust, hand-tossed and airy, deep dish, rustic and unusually shaped? No matter your pizza preference, this recipe is the only one you'll ever need! It creates a literally fail-proof pizza dough suitable for any toppings you could throw at it. This recipe uses strong flour or bread flour, flour that you can use for making pasta, so it's a bit more robust and definitely easy to work with.

It's versatile enough to be rolled thinly or you can pile up a deep dish like I've done for a Chicago style pizza pie. Keep the ingredients simple and make a classic margherita or get creative like +Kirsten Madaus and her amazing pizza concoctions. Next time it's pizza night, give the takeaways a miss and whip up your own restaurant-style pizza! Trust me guys, you can't mess up this easy recipe!

Deep dish pizza made with fail-proof pizza dough from


For the fail-proof pizza dough
1 cup warm water at 100F/45C
1 tsp salt
1 packet/7g active dry yeast
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp sugar
2 cups gluten free bread flour, sifted
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Fail-proof Pizza Dough

  1. Dissolve the yeast in the warm water for at least five minutes.
  2. Combine the flour, salt and sugar. Add the yeast, water and olive oil and stir well to form a dough.
  3. Knead the dough for about five minutes until smooth. 
  4. Place back in the bowl, cover and let rise until it has doubled in size. At least 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat your oven to 350F/180C.
  6. Roll dough out on floured surface into whatever shape you'd like your pizza to be.
  7. Sauce and pile on your toppings and bake until golden brown and cooked through. (Cooking time will vary depending on how thinly you roll your dough.)
Chicago style deep dish fail proof pizza dough from

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  1. Always on the look out for pizza dough recipes

  2. This sounds wonderful - anything fool proof is good with me! I make homemade pizza dough all the time but I haven't been hooked on one recipe so I am definitely giving this a try. Actually we think it is is great that it is being featured at this week's party which doesn't start until Wednesday evening. Thanks so much for sharing on the Four Seasons Blog Hop!

    1. Thank you in advance for the feature, Terri! :) Do let me know how it turns out if you try the recipe!

  3. Who doesn't love a good pizza? Thanks for sharing your dough recipe. That is 1/2 the battle, getting the dough right!

  4. I never made a Chicago style pizza, you make it look easy. Maybe I'll get my husband to try it.

  5. I never knew homemade pizza dough could be so easy!!! I'm definitely going to give this recipe a try the next time I make pizza!

