Make it Your Own Pizza Dough!
- 1/2 cup luke warm water (skin temperature)
- 1/2 cup skim milk (or any kind)
- 1 tbsp liquid honey
- 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast (or one package)
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil (or other cooking oil)
- 1/4 cup your choice of spices or herbs combined. For example 1/8 cup garlic powder & 1/8 cup dried oregano
- 1 cup additional of all purpose flour for kneading
- Heat milk in the microwave for about 30-40 seconds or until it reaches a lukewarm temperature.
- Combine in a small or medium bowl your milk and lukewarm water.
- Add the liquid honey and stirr until dissolved.
- Sprinkle the yeast into the lukewarm liquid and honey mixture.
- Let the yeast bloom for about 5 minutes.
- *To bloom yeast means to let it activate and become frothy or foamy looking*
- In a large bowl combine your dry ingredients including your choice of dry herbs and/or spices.
- Then make a well or hole in the middle of the dry mix.
- Add your now bloomed yeast mixture to the well in your dry mixture.
- Also add your oil to the well and gently stir the mixture until the wet and dry are incorporated.
- Using some of the additional flour, lightly dust a clean counter and drop your dough mixture onto the floured counter.
- Dust a little more flour on top of the dough and onto your hands so they don't stick.
- Begin kneading or slowly massaging and rolling your dough to incorporate more flour.
- As you need it dust more flour on the counter and your hands so the dough does not stick.
- Continue kneading until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
- (About 2-5 minutes)
- In a large bowl use oil to grease the entire inside of the bowl or use an oil spray.
- Put your kneaded dough into the greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap leaving a small opening.
- You may also use a damp kitchen towel to cover the bowl as well.
- Put your bowl into a warm spot in your kitchen so your dough can rise for about an hour.
- Once your dough has doubled in size, punch it down and knead again on the counter to incorporate more flour.
- Return dough to the bowl, recover, and return to the warm spot in your kitchen to let rise again for 30 minutes.
- For the 30 minutes, you can preheat your oven to 450F and prepare your pizza toppings.
- Once your dough has doubled in size again, punch down once more and return to the floured counter to work the dough into its final shapes and sizes.
- *If you wish, you can turn your dough into buns, mini pizzas, garlic sticks, or any other creation you'd like to make.
- Grease your baking pan or sheet with oil or spray.
- Place your dough onto the pan and work your dough to fit the pan and work into desired thickness.
- Place your sauce and toppings onto your dough and place into the oven on a middle rack.
- Keep and eye on your creation, but after about 10-15 minutes your pizza should start to form a crust.
- At this time if you wish you can slide your pizza off the baking sheet onto your oven rack to get a crispier crust.
- Bake until toppings brown and bubble.
- (Another 5-15 minutes depending on size and doneness preference)
- To remove from oven, place back onto baking sheet before removing from the oven.
- Cut into slices and enjoy!
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luke warm water, milk, honey, active dry yeast, whole wheat flour, flour, salt, vegetable oil, your choice
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/346086-make-it-your-own-pizza-dough (may not work)