Super Pizza!

Super Pizza!

Who want's some pizza?!?! Bwhahaha it's super pizza because there are a lot of veggies and you can only eat one slice, instead of four. 

You will need: 

Whole wheat flour 

Wheat germ (optional)

flax seed (optional) 

salt

honey 

yeast 

warm water 

bottled spaghetti sauce or your own pizza sauce 

Mozzarella cheese (wish I could afford the real italian stuff...)

Vegetables and toppings of your choice. 

Dissolve 1 Tablespoon of honey in one cup of warm water. Not hot, because yeast will die at 145 degrees F.
Add 1 Tablespoon of active dry yeast. 

Stir and dissolve, set aside. Set your oven to 425 degrees

Add two cups of whole wheat flour, 1/4 cup of wheat germ, a little salt - about a 1/4 teaspoon,  and the desired amount of flax seed. 

Make a well in the center to add yeast liquid

The yeast should be foaming and all the way dissolved. 

Add the liquid a little at a time until all incorporated in. 

The dough will be sticky, but this will allow it to rise better during the first part.  Cover it in oil so it doesn't get hard. 

Stick on the oven so it can stay warm and cover with a cloth. 

Start chopping your veggies! If you have broccoli, I would keep the stocks because they are great to use in soup later! 

I use an egg slices to make quick work of olives. 

Get them all chopped and set aside. 

The dough will be about doubled in size, if you want it rise more, just wait longer. 

Flour a work surface with whole wheat flour, and also flour your hands - as the dough is sticky. 

Knead dough incorporating flour until you have a smooth ball of dough. 

Cover and return to the oven top to rise. 

Grease a pizza pan or cookie sheet, I put this over a cookie sheet unless anything decided it wanted to leak out those holes on the bottom, but it would still let the heat get under there.  

Roll out your dough to desired thickness and fold over the edges, I like to make it ugly like this - it give the pizza personality, plus I don't want to have to worry about it being perfect. 

Bake in the oven until it starts to puff up and there begins to be a crust.  I do this so the sauce won't leave it all goopy and slimy. 

Cover with sauce and put on your very dimensional ingredients. 

Cover with your cheese and then lay on the flat ingredients. 

Drizzle olive oil over the surface if desired and sprinkle with fresh herbs - I had thyme and parsley so that's what I did.  You could use dry if you don't have any. 

Bake until it looks yummy! 

There you have it... some "pizza" (disclaimer: not really guaranteed to calm your craving for pizza hut.)