Best Cheesy Garlic Pizza
This easy and cheesy garlic pizza is the most delicious pizza ever! Its made with our homemade pizza dough that is soft on the inside and crispy on the outside, topped with garlic and butter sauce, mozzarella, chili flakes, and dries basil.
Ingredients
Pizza dough:
- 5 ½ cups Flour
- 3 teaspoon Granulated sugar
- 2 ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 ¼ tablespoon Instant yeast
- ¼ cup Olive oil
- 2 cups Water
- 1 teaspoon Vinegar
Garlic butter sauce:
- 115 g Butter
- 5 cloves Garlic grated
Assembly:
- 4 cups Mozzarella
- ½ teaspoon Chili flakes
- ½ teaspoon Dried basil
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl of a stand mixer, add the flour, granulated sugar, kosher salt, and yeast, and mix on low until combined.
- Add the olive oil, water, and vinegar, and mix for about 10 minutes until you get a soft and stretchy dough.
- Grease a big bowl with oil, and transfer the dough to the bowl. Cover the dough with a towel or a plastic wrap and let the dough rise at room temperature for at least an hour or until it's doubled in size.
- Punch down the risen dough and transfer the dough onto a floured surface. Divide the dough into 2-3 parts (depending on the size you want) and roll them into balls.
- Cover the dough balls with a towel to prevent them from drying out and let them rest for 15 minutes.
- Make the garlic topping: In a small saucepan, add the butter, and the grated garlic, and simmer over medium-low heat until the butter is melted and the garlic is cooked. (careful, garlic burns very easily) Set aside to cool while prepping the dough.
- Onto a clean floured surface, roll each dough ball at a time, and transfer the dough disk to a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Brush the dough disk with the garlic and butter mixture generously, and top it with plenty of mozzarella cheese.
- Bake in a 250c (482f) preheated oven for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and bubbly and the dough is golden brown and crispy.
- Top the pizza with chili flakes and dried or fresh basil (or any of your favorite Italian seasoning), and serve!
Notes
- Make sure that your yeast isn't expired. You can check if your yeast is expired by mixing a teaspoon of dry yeast with ¼ cup of room temperature water, waiting 10 minutes, and if the yeast has bubbles in it and it puffed a bit, your yeast is alive and good, if there are no bubbles in your yeast mixture, your yeast is probably expired.
- Be patient! Let the dough rise at least until it doubles its size.
- Use bread flour! We like to use either all-purpose flour or bread flour for making bread. Bread flour contains more gluten, which makes the dough more stretchy and easy to work with.
- Mesure you flour correctly! When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it with a measuring cup. Instead, stir the flour with a spoon to create as many air pockets as possible, and spoon it into your measuring cup. Finally, level it with a back of a knife.
- When rolling the dough balls, be generous with the flour because the dough is pretty sticky.
- Make sure that your ingredients are fresh! Make sure that your flour and yeast are fresh and not expired. This step ensures that you will have a great dough to work with.
- Bake the pizza on a pizza stone or on the lowest oven rack for a crispy crust.
Nutrition
Calories: 301kcalCarbohydrates: 35gProtein: 11gFat: 13gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 38mgSodium: 622mgPotassium: 79mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 396IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 155mgIron: 2mg
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