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..: Mar 6, 2009

Friday, March 6

Happy Friday!


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Home Made Pizza


Every Friday is home made pizza night at our house. I found this Black and Decker (I thought they only made power tools) food processor at Goodwill for $14.99, which is the cost of one take-out pizza alone. This little beauty saves us a lot of green.


Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe

2 C. whole wheat flour
1 t. salt
1 t. oil
3/4 C. of warm water
1 T. yeast
1 T. sugar


Directions:
1) Combine yeast and sugar in a small bowl and add 1/4 C. of WARM
not hot water and stir. After it bubbles up high, then start the next steps

2) Add flour, salt and oil to processor. Process 5 seconds on high

3) Add bubbled up yeast mixture. Process 10 seconds on high

4) Slowly, add 1/2 c. warm water while processor is on high

5) Keeping the processor on high, the dough should form a ball.
You may need to add a tiny bit more water, slowly to get it to form.
When it forms a ball, let it rotate 25 times

6) Cover it with a large bowl on a greased baking sheet for 10 minutes

Note: I always make two separate batches for one pizza. I never double the recipe in the food processor because I've found it's too rough on the machine, at least when I'm working with whole wheat flour.

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The yeast is ready when it looks like this


For some reason at my house, it takes the yeast 15-20 minutes to look like this. I think the time will vary depending on the elements, so I go by how it looks rather than timing it.

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Let the dough rise for 10 minutes


I oil the pan and cover my dough with a large mixing bowl while it's rising.

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Roll out the pizza crust



I use a glass which seems to fit better than a rolling pin and gives a smoother result than using my hands to press down the dough.

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Top with whatever you have on hand.


I buy red bell peppers and green onions inexpensively at the farmers market, dice them up and freeze them in bags for pizza and other recipes. I buy pepperoni and shredded cheese in large bags from Smart and Final, which lasts a long time and saves money instead of the over priced smaller bags from the grocery store.

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here is the finished product


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