Brooklyn Style Pizza is known for its signature thin and crispy crust. No need to take a trip to the Big Apple when you can make it at home!
Homemade pizza makes the perfect family Italian dinner that everyone will look forward to. You can also try some of my other favorites, like Tomato Pizza or my Hawaiian Pizza.
Why You’ll Love This Pizza?
- Easy to prep and ready to enjoy in just over an hour, making it a delicious meal the whole family can look forward to!
- Make an extra pizza and freeze it for later, have it ready for a quick dinner.
Sabrina’s Brooklyn Style Pizza Recipe
If you ever find yourself in New York, you need to try the delicious pizzas because they are known not only for their taste but also for the classic crispy texture. It’s hard to find a better thin-crust pizza than in Brooklyn, New York, because pizza makers have perfected the thinnest crust. The original pizza is often ordered by the slice and enjoyed on the go as street food. To make the thin crust manageable to eat while walking, they’re either sliced into smaller square shapes or enjoyed as foldable slices.
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Ingredients
Pizza Dough:
- 1 cup warm water , (110 degrees)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast , 1 packet
- 2 1/2 cups bread flour
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
To Make Pizza:
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce
- 1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese , shredded
- 12 slices extra-large pepperoni
- 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes , optional
- 2 tablespoons cornmeal
Instructions
Pizza Dough:
- In a stand mixer mix the water, sugar and yeast together and let it sit for 10 minutes.
- Add in the flour, oil, salt and garlic powder and whisk together on medium speed until well combined, then swap out for the dough hook and let it knead for 5 minutes on medium speed.
- Remove the dough hook and let it rest, covered with a damp clean towel for 30 minutes before using.
To Make the Pizza:
- Heat the oven to 425 degrees.
- Cut the mozzarella into 1 inch chunks.
- Add to a food processor and pulse into small pieces.
- Roll the pizza dough out to ¼ inch thickness on a floured countertop or cutting board about 16 inch across.
- Add cornmeal to a 16 inch pizza pan and add the pizza dough.
- Layer the pizza (except for the outer 1-inch ring) with the pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, and Italian seasoning.
- Brush edge of the pizza crust with olive oil and garlic salt
- Bake for 13-15 minutes until the cheese is browned and bubbling and the crust is golden brown.
- Cut the pizza into squares instead of slices, it's traditionally sliced that way with a Brooklyn pizza.
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Note from Sabrina
You can slice this pizza into wedges, like classic pizza or squares. Because of the thinner crust, many people opt for the smaller square pieces. Slicing the large pizza into square shapes is an especially good option if you’re serving kids and don’t want a mess on your hands. However, plenty of pizza joints in Brooklyn serve these thin slices in large triangle slices, like traditional pizza. It just depends on your preference.
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About this Recipe
Fortunately, you don’t have to go to Brooklyn to enjoy this pizza. Following this recipe, you’ll have the perfect copy of classic Brooklyn pizza with an unforgettable crispy texture. This thin-crust pie is great for an easy dinner that you can prep ahead of time, then just pop the pie in the hot oven when you’re ready to eat. It’s surprisingly easy to make and tastes just as good as the famous Brooklyn pizza.
Ingredients
- Yeast: To make the pizza dough rise, you’ll need 1 packet of active dry yeast. Unlike instant yeast, active yeast needs to be rehydrated before you can mix it with the dry ingredients. To do this, you’ll add 1 cup warm water and a teaspoon water to rehydrate and wake up the yeast. Be sure the water is around 110 degrees (warm to the touch). Hot water can kill the yeast and cold water won’t activate it.
- Flour: To make the dough, you’ll mix 2 ½ cups flour with the oil and yeast mixture. Bread flour makes the best pizza dough because its high protein content allows the dough to expand and stretch how it needs to. You may notice the ingredients for Brooklyn-style crust are the same as traditional pizza dough. The difference is how thin you roll out the dough to make the large, crispy crust.
- Tomato Sauce: Top the pizza with classic Pizza Sauce. Because the crust is so thin, try to spread the tomato sauce and other toppings thinly so that it’s not too heavy for the crisp crust.
- Cheese: Mozzarella cheese makes the perfect pizza topping. It’s ideal because its soft, milky texture means that it melts perfectly, giving the pizza that beautiful cheese pull when you slice it.
Can this be made ahead of time?
If you want to prep this recipe in advance, you can prepare the pizza dough and toppings as usual. Then freeze the Brooklyn Style Pizza ahead of baking it. To freeze the pizza recipe, place it on a large baking dish. Then, lay it flat in the freezer. Leave it for a few hours until the pizza is frozen. Then, wrap the frozen pizza in a few layers of plastic wrap to keep it frozen for up to 6 months before baking.
Pairing Suggestions
Serve this large pizza pie with your favorite sides like Garlic Bread, Pesto Cheesy Bread, or Garlic Knots. You can also add sauces like Ranch Dressing to dip the pizza slices into.
How to Store
- Serve: Don’t leave homemade pizza sitting out at room temperature for more than 2 hours, or it will start to go bad.
- Store: To keep leftover pizza fresh, wrap the pizza slices in aluminum foil or seal them in a freezer bag or another airtight container to store in the fridge for up to 4 days.
- Freeze: You can also freeze the pizza recipe for up to 2 months. To get the same crispy crust, reheat your leftover pizza in a 350-degree oven.
Frequent Questions
Pizza lovers everywhere rave about New York Pizza. Brooklyn Style is also from New York and is quite similar. Both styles of pizza have a thin crust and traditional pizza toppings. The difference is in how crispy the crust is. While classic New York Pizza is crisp around the edges, it tends to be softer towards the center, and the slices flop when you hold them by the crust. Brooklyn Pizza has a more crispy crust throughout. The edge all the way to the center should have a delicious crunch when you bite into it.
Yes. This style of ultra-thin and crispy pizza originated in the New York borough of Brooklyn. The style of making pizza became so popular that you can now enjoy it at many local pizzerias, and pizza chains like Domino’s even have their own take on the classic pizza. Plus, this homemade version ensures you don’t have to travel to Brooklyn to get the authentic taste.
This can vary. However, Brooklyn Style Pizza is typically made with red sauce, mozzarella cheese, and minimal toppings like pepperoni or sausage. It’s also often enjoyed plain (just with cheese). Because the crust is so thin, it doesn’t hold up lots of toppings well.
Variations
- Meat Toppings: Traditionally Brooklyn-Style Pizza is made with pretty spare toppings. But the beauty of making your own pizza is that you can add any of your favorite toppings. Swap out the pepperoni slices in the recipe for Italian sausage, bacon bits, ham, or buffalo chicken. You could also make a meat-lover version with different kinds of meat all layered together.
- Cheese: Another way to personalize your pizza is by adding different types of cheese. Along with the fresh mozzarella, you can sprinkle on grated parmesan cheese, goat cheese, sharp cheddar, gorgonzola, or provolone. Just remember that extra cheese can be heavy for the thin crust, so sprinkle on your blend of cheese lightly.
- Vegetables: For a veggie Brooklyn-style pie, you can layer on green peppers, banana peppers, red onion, olives, cherry tomatoes, baby spinach, artichoke, and any other delicious veggies that you’d like to add.
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