Pizza Hut Crust Copycat Recipe
How to Make a Pizza Hut Pizza Crust (Copy Cat Recipe)
I love making homemade pizza. Ever since, I bought a used Bosch Mixer, making the pizza crust is a breeze, because I don’t have to knead the dough. I’ve never been very thrilled with the crust though. I mean, it’s OK, but nothing that I’m real excited about.
Finally, I decided to do a search for a Pizza Hut crust recipe. After doing some minor tweaking, this is what I came up with:
Warning: This is not a super low-fat crust! No dieters allowed! :) But for all of you not on a special diet, read on.
Pizza Hut Pan Pizza Crust CopyCat Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup warm water
1/3 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 package (2 1/2 t.) dry yeast
1 cup vegetable oil
Directions:
Dissolve yeast in 1 cup of warm water and let sit a couple of minutes. Add sugar and salt to the water and let dissolve. Put the rest of the ingredients into mixer and let knead (or knead by hand) for several minutes. The dough should be soft and slightly greasy.
This should make 2 medium size pizzas or 3 smalls (around 9″). I doubled the recipe and made 3 large pizzas. Normally, my family eats pizza as if we were in a food shortage, but this one was so filling that they could only eat 2 pizzas!
My husband said that this pizza was just as good as Pizza Hut. He’s super picky about certain things when it comes to his food, so that is saying A LOT!
The toppings on the above picture were: hamburger, pepperoni, onions and green peppers.
What are your favorite pizza toppings?
Do you pre-bake it at all before adding sauce and toppings? I generally do, because we put a LOT of sauce and stuff on top…I wonder if this one would let me get away with not pre-baking…
I did not. I read that you should if you were putting lots of toppings on, but mine seemed to hold up fine.
When you say "put in mixer" is this like a stand mixer with kneading attachment (dough hook) or are you using a bread machine on a dough cycle?
I used a Bosch Mixer with a dough hook. You could of course just do it by hand, it's just faster when you use the mixer. I'm sure a bread machine would work, too.
Wow! 1 cup of oil sounds like a lot! No wonder there's no dieters allowed…lol! I make a lot of pizza crust also and never have seen a recipe that calls for so much oil. I will look up my recipes and post them if I may? Of course, my boys are all partial to bread of any sort and type; though I cook and experiment a lot, they never complain about the recipe I choose. They love my cooking! lol I guess I'm lucky.
Yes, I was a little surprised when it called for so much! It still wasn't as greasy as Pizza Hut crust seems to be, but I didn't end up brushing it with extra oil like I was told…..it just seemed like too much! You're welcome to post some recipes if you want.
I am hoping that this will become my family's new favorite crust–my current recipe is just so-so. Thanks for sharing!
I hope so, too Judy! You're welcome!
Yay! We love making our own pizza!
I would love to invite you to share this with my readers at Saturday Show & Tell on Cheerios and Lattes!
Have a Great Weekend,
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Thank you for sharing. I'll try to remember to hit your show & tell on Saturday!
Sounds good! Do you know if this can this be frozen? If so, after which stage in the recipe? (For example, completely raw, prebaked, fully baked, etc.)
I have never tried to freeze it, but I would say that you could do it in any of the stages, but for best results, I'd go with prebaked. Take that for what its worth though since I've never done it!