Easy Recipe – Homemade Pizza

See the newest pizza dough recipe I’ve been using below – we all like it even better!

I use this recipe for a variety of different types of easy-to-make pizzas (ideas below). I got it in the recipe book that came with my Zojirushi bread maker.

Use the basic dough setting in the Zoj (or if you make it in the Bosch, knead about 8 minutes), add ingredients in this order:

• 1 1/2 c. warm water (filtered if possible)
• 2 t. rapid rise yeast or 1 1/2 t. active dry yeast
• 2 T. soft butter (organic)
• 2 c. Bob’s Reds Mill flour (organic, unbleached, unbromated)
• 1 3/4 c. organic whole wheat flour (freshly ground if possible) or whole spelt flour, most nutritious: sprouted grain flour
  
• 2 T. honey (raw, organic)
• 1 1/2 t. sea salt

After the dough setting is done and beeps, split it in half and use buttered hands to spread each around two buttered, 15″ stainless steel pizza pans. Let set until a half hour before you want to eat.

In the meantime, prepare the other ingredients depending on what type of pizza you’re making:

photo by benketaro

• You can use traditional ingredients (I use Muir Glen organic pizza sauce and other organic ingredients I can find.) UPDATE: here is a homemade pizza sauce recipe!
• Sometimes I’ll make a bacon cheeseburger pizza: ketchup and mustard for the “sauce”, cooked hamburger (grass-fed beef, cooked with onions, salt & pepper), then sprinkle on bacon, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes & cheese.
• You could do a meatless pizza: brush on butter with garlic, then add various veggies and cheeses. We like parmesan and mozzarella with tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and Kent likes mushrooms, too.
• For a treat spread melted butter on the crust and sprinkle cinnamon & sugar, then bake until golden.
• Another one we like is using barbecue sauce instead of regular pizza sauce (I make my own lately since most have high fructose corn syrup and the organic ones we’ve tried aren’t great – anyone know of a good one?), then we put on ingredients like ham or canadian bacon, pineapple, green pepper, cheese.
• You could use this dough to make calzones and put ham & cheese inside, pizza ingredients or anything you’d like: flatten a big ball of dough on a lightly floured surface, spread ingredients in the middle, fold over and pinch sides together, brush with beaten egg and bake about 20 minutes or until golden.

Always bake the crust 15 minutes or so (375*) before adding the ingredients on top (or it will be soggy), then bake another 15 minutes with the ingredients.

NOTE: Here’s the recipe I’ve been using lately and we all love it!  A friend, Amy K., gave it to me – makes 2 pizza crusts:

• 2 t. yeast
• 2 c. warm water
• 1/4 c. soft butter
• 1/8 c. molasses
• 1/4 c. honey
• 1 t. sea salt
• 5 cups whole wheat flour (I used 3 c. sprouted ww and 2 c. unbleached white)

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