3 Ingredient Pizza Dough

3 ingredients are all you need for this pizza dough. Homemade pizza dough made without yeast - Greek yogurt is the secret ingredient to this crust. Mix flour, greek yogurt, and salt in a bowl. Roll out with a rolling pin and bake in the oven for 10 minutes, then top with your favorite pizza toppings and bake again. Greek yogurt offers a wonderful chewy texture to this crust. It will have you floored the moment you eat it! Easy to make, simple to do, and the taste is out of this world!

Listen, we love homemade pizza night around here! It is something we do often and is one of our go-to Friday at-home date night meals. We go fancy sometimes with ricotta fig and prosciutto pizza or keep it simple with our favorite, sausage and banana peppers. It is all good!

While hanging out with one of my good friends doing a shoot for Fueling a Southern Soul, we were talking about food and dinners we like to make regularly and she told me about how she used Greek yogurt to make pizza dough and how much her family loved it. I thought it was the weirdest thing and I didn't believe her until I tried it. But oh my gosh, she was right!

She literally uses just 3 ingredients. When I finally tested it myself that same week I couldn't believe how simple, easy, and delicious this was. I was floored!

All that is required is to mix equal parts flour and Greek yogurt, and a pinch of salt for flavor. Both full-fat or non-plain plain Greek yogurt can be used (feel like this is obvious here but make sure it's plain and not flavored - that definitely wouldn't result in a great-tasting pizza haha). Mix it in a bowl, roll it out on the counter with a rolling pin, and bake in the oven for 10 minutes to partially bake. Then you top with whatever toppings your heart desires, bake again, and wahlaa! You can have homemade pizza in under 30 minutes.

No yeast, no rising time, none of the hard time-consuming things. Anyone can do it! It sounds too good to be true but let me show you how simple it is! This makes for the perfect meal for a date night at home, a homemade pizza dinner party - have the dough prebaked and let everyone top it with their favorite ingredients or for a quick weeknight dinner

About the Ingredients

• Flour - I use King Arthur all-purpose white flour for all of my baking needs. However, any brand of white all-purpose flour will work.
• Greek Yogurt - I have used both full-fat and nonfat Greek yogurt for this recipe. We usually have the nonfat version in the fridge always so I tend to use that the most. Just make sure it is a plain flavor, whatever fat percentage you use, and not flavored like vanilla or anything.
• Salt - this adds just a little something something to the flavor. You can technically make this with just flour and yogurt, but I like to add a pinch of salt to boost the flavor profile a bit after I tested and made this myself.

Recipe Tips

Another reason this recipe is one of our go-to's and favorites is that is a super easy ratio to remember...

It is ONE part flour to ONE part Greek yogurt and 1 teaspoon of salt per part. For example: 2 cups flour + 2 cups plain Greek yogurt + 2 teaspoons salt.

It is so easy to remember and easily adaptable depending on the number of people you are making it for. 2 cups of flour +2 cups of yogurt will give you 4 smaller pizzas and feed around 6-8 people. So you can adjust accordingly very easily depending on the number of people you are feeding.

This is a more "wet" dough than a traditional yeast recipe, so lots of flour on the counter will be needed to make sure it doesn't stick to the surface and the dough itself is no longer sticky.

If you want to prep this ahead of time or freeze there are a couple of different options I have found helpful.

1. Freeze partially baked crust - follow the directions up until baking.
   You will bake the pizza crust for 15 minutes instead of 10. This will bake the crust almost all the way. Remove from the oven and let cool. Once cooled, wrap the baked pizza crust tightly in plastic wrap 3 times still on the cookie sheet (this helps keep it flat and from breaking), ensuring no air can get to the crust. Store in the freezer for up to 6 months. When ready to use, remove from the freezer, top with toppings, and bake at 400 for 10 minutes until the cheese is melted.
2. Freezing pizza dough - wrap the ball of pizza dough tightly in plastic wrap a couple of times and place it in a freezer-safe ziptop bag. Store for up to 6 months. When ready to use, place in the fridge for 24 hours to thaw. Proceed with the recipe as directed from there.

FUN FACT - this dough can also be used to make Easy Garlic Knots with No Yeast! and Everything Bagel Bites Stuffed with Cream Cheese !

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