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.
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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. |
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Stir and dissolve, set aside. Set your oven to 425 degrees |
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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. |
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Make a well in the center to add yeast liquid
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The yeast should be foaming and all the way dissolved. |
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Add the liquid a little at a time until all incorporated in. |
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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. |
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Stick on the oven so it can stay warm and cover with a cloth. |
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Start chopping your veggies! If you have broccoli, I would keep the stocks because they are great to use in soup later! |
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I use an egg slices to make quick work of olives. |
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Get them all chopped and set aside. |
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The dough will be about doubled in size, if you want it rise more, just wait longer. |
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Flour a work surface with whole wheat flour, and also flour your hands - as the dough is sticky. |
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Knead dough incorporating flour until you have a smooth ball of dough. |
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Cover and return to the oven top to rise. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Cover with sauce and put on your very dimensional ingredients. |
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Cover with your cheese and then lay on the flat ingredients. |
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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. |
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Bake until it looks yummy! |
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There you have it... some "pizza" (disclaimer: not really guaranteed to calm your craving for pizza hut.) |
But if you use bottled spaghetti sauce, you get sugar and other rubbish and it's not quite AS healthy... or as yummy! I need to make this. I'm getting hungry looking at it!
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