Paul Hollywood at a racetrack

Paul Hollywood's Tip For The Best Homemade Baked Pizza Dough

NEWS

By S. FERRARI

Paul Hollywood smiling
To improve your pizza game, TV host and celebrity chef Paul Hollywood has a two-fold tip for pizza dough preparation: roll it super thin and bake it super hot.
Parent and child decorating pizzas
High heat is critical to pizza perfection, and while some pizzas are known for thickness, the style that strikes that perfect crispy-chewy balance needs to be very thin.
Pizza inside a stone pizza oven
Hollywood suggests firing up the oven and leaving a plate (an oven-proof option or pizza stone) inside for at least an hour or hour and a half at the highest temperature possible.
Hands working pizza dough on a floured wood surface surrounded by pizza ingredients
Demonstrating his dough-rolling process in a YouTube video, Hollywood is especially generous with flour to prevent the dough from sticking to the surface.
Spoon spreading marinara sauce on pizza dough
He starts from the center of the dough, rolling outwards in all directions to achieve that signature circular shape and a consistently thin base for your sauce and toppings.
Convection oven with the door open
If you have a pizza oven, the pizza should only take about three minutes. You can still reach that peak texture in a standard oven, just add about four to five minutes.