"thin dough" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to dough that has been rolled out or stretched thinly, such as for making pastries or pizza crust. Example: The baker carefully spread the thin dough over the pan, making sure it was evenly distributed before adding the toppings for the pizza.
Thin dough around sweetened cheese, topped with fresh fruit.
Any thin dough works well for the crust.
The flavors, some mild, some smoky, some hot as hell, burst through the thin dough, which tastes deliciously cornful.
Customers at Jiangming Hundun Guan handed over money to a man in a cart as two women at a nearby table carefully filled thin dough with minced pork and twisted them into tortellini-size dumplings.
Dishes that have arrived include fillet of dourade wrapped up like a birthday present in thin dough called brik, then sautéed until golden and decorated with a sweet-acid mix of bell peppers and roasted tomato oil.
Not very long ago housewives still made their own paper-thin dough.
Mrs. Steinberg's are made by twisting paper-thin dough so that it can hold a savory filling, similar to a knish.
At least four days a week, often more, the shop produces 50 to 60 pounds of the tissue-thin dough, the foundation of cheese and spinach pies and endless sweets.
I had never met Sameer's wife, whom he could afford to keep in purdah, but I imagined the little courtyard in the manager's house, shaded and cemented, with a separate kitchen outside, and the fat woman — she would certainly be fat — who with clean hennaed hands folded the paper-thin dough of the samosas.
But at Juan Amador's restaurant the sandwich — along with a tube to sip a few drops of pork fat and smoked oil, followed by a quail's egg swaddled in paper-thin dough — is part of a multicourse meal that runs about $240.
In my experience, a thinner dough is easier to pleat, but will, of course, result in a thinner bun.
