Can you make pizza at home that tastes exactly like Domino’s? Yes! The Domino’s dough is typically soft, chewy, and slightly crispy around the edges, and the tomato sauce has a tangy, slightly sweet flavour to match your chosen toppings. Here’s the recipe for the dough and the tomato sauce:

Ingredients

Makes 2 medium (11.5″) pizzas

For the pizza dough (2 pizzas)

380g strong white bread flour
12g sugar
3g fine sea salt
236ml lukewarm water, ideally 38°C
5g instant yeast
Extra flour for dusting

For the tomato sauce (each pizza)

2 teaspoons tomato puree
4 teaspoons water
A generous pinch of sugar
A pinch of salt and pepper
A sprinkle of dried thyme
A sprinkle of dried oregano

For the garlic butter (2 pizzas)

30g salted butter
1g onion granules
1 clove garlic, minced

For the toppings – Deluxe

Red onions, thinly sliced
Green and red peppers, thinly sliced
Pepperoni slices
Sausage, cooked and chopped*
Mushrooms, thinly sliced, blanched and dried
Pizza sauce
Mozzarella cheese, grated

*I’ve tried using leftover meat stuffing from a Sunday roast for this pizza and it worked just fine!

For the toppings – Texas BBQ

Red onions, thinly sliced
Green and red peppers, thinly sliced
Chicken breast, cooked and cut into thin stripes*
Bacon, cooked and cut into small strips
BBQ sauce
Mozzarella cheese

*Again, I’ve tried using leftover chicken from a Sunday roast for this pizza and it worked just fine!

Method

Prepare the dough

1. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, and salt.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the warm water and yeast, and leave it for a minutes to activate the yeast.
3. Add yeast mixture to the dry ingredients and mix by hand until a rough dough forms. Knead by hand for 5 minutes or until smooth. Form into a ball. Place in a greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and place in the fridge to rise overnight.
4. Remove the plastic wrap and punch down your dough. Divide into 2 even pieces and roll them into dough balls.
5. Grease a sheet pan with oil and lightly dust with flour. Place the dough balls on the sheet pan, cover with plastic wrap and proof at room temperature for 3 hours.

Make the sauce

1. In a small saucepan over low heat, add all the sauce ingredients and stir to combine. Continue heating the sauce for a few minutes until it reaches a runny but thick consistency. Add more water if too thick, or add tomato puree if too runny. Remove from heat and set aside.

Make the garlic butter

1. In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt together the butter, minced garlic, salt and onion granules.
2. Remove from heat and set aside someplace warm so the garlic butter stays melted.

Feeling lazy? A quick way to make it is to put the butter, minced garlic and onion granules in a small ovenproof dish and put the dish in the oven when you put the pizza in. It should all be nicely melted together when the pizza is ready.

Cook the pizza

1. Place a pizza stone or an upside-down baking tray in the oven and preheat to the maximum temperature for 30 minutes before cooking the pizza.
2. Grab a piece of your dough, place it on a lightly floured work surface, and with your knuckles, begin to punch down a thin layer in the centre, working your way out to create a thicker crust around the outer edge.
3. Pick up your dough without touching the outer edge, place it over your closed fists and rotate it around, gently stretching it to a 10-12-inch circle without tearing the dough.
4. Place a couple of teaspoons of pizza sauce in the centre of the dough. Spread it towards the edges until it is evenly spread out.
5. Generously sprinkle some of the grated mozzarella cheese on top and brush the edges with extra virgin olive oil. Add on your toppings.
6. Place on the pizza stone or baking tray and bake for about 10 minutes until the dough is puffed, golden brown on the edges, the cheese is melted and the toppings are sizzling. Every oven is different, I bake mine for 11 minutes in my oven at 250℃ fan.
7. Rotate the pizza 180° halfway through the cooking time.
8. To cook the pizza in the Ninja woodfire pizza oven, choose the New York pizza style to cook it at 245℃ for 8 minutes.
9. Pull your pizza out and immediately brush the crust with the garlic butter.
10. Slice and enjoy your homemade Domino’s pizza!

I’d say this is really close to the real thing, if not better! As much as I love Domino’s, I find their pizzas a bit too cheesy and greasy sometimes.

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Janice xx