Easy Homemade Pizza

Every now and then, I’ll make homemade pizza. I use my bread maker to make a whole wheat pizza dough that is just delicious.

  

Bread Maker recipe for Whole Wheat Pizza Dough: (Makes 1 pound of dough, 2 thin crusts)

(Ingredients are listed in the order you add them to the bread maker.)

Water (80 Degrees F/27 Degrees C)   1 Cup

2 Tbsp Oil

1 Tbsp sugar

1 tsp salt

1 cup Whole Wheat Flour

1 1/2 cups Bread Flour

1 tsp Active Dry Yeast

Select Pizza Dough Course on your bread machine, (Mine takes 55 minutes to prepare the pizza dough)

Once the dough is ready, place it on a lightly floured surface and divide the dough in half. Press the dough onto two 12 inch pizza pans (I use pizza stones) Generously prick the dough with a fork.  Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes or until edges begin to turn light golden brown. Remove from oven, add your toppings and return to oven to bake for  12-15 minutes. (Check them around the ten minute mark to make sure they aren’t getting too brown. You may need to bake them longer or take them out)

This crust is a cinch to prepare since the break maker does all the work. It is absolutely delicious!

Recipe for Quick Pizza Sauce (courtesy of America’s Test Kitchen)

2 TBSP extra virgin olive oil

2 Garlic Cloves, minced

1 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes

salt and pepper

Heat the oil and garlic in a medium saucepan over medium heat, about 1.5 minutes. Don’t let the garlic burn. Add the canned tomatoes and simmer the sauce until thickened, about 15 minutes.

Are you ready for a super delicious pizza recipe that will quickly become a family favorite?

After you’ve prebaked the crusts, build your pizzas in the following order.

• Add the sauce
• cover with thinly sliced prosciutto (1/4 pound will be more than enough for two pizzas)
• cooked, crumbled and drained Italian Sausage (1/2 –3/4 of a pound will be more than enough)
• thinly sliced fresh mozzarella (this makes all the difference. It is so creamy and delicious and it melts beautifully.)
• shaved parmesan (sprinkle over each pizza)
• Bake for 10-15  minutes
• Remove from oven and add a handful of peppery arugula to each pizza
• Freshly ground black pepper
• a thin drizzle of honey over each pizza. (my honey has a pump so I can get it as thin as a piece of thread. A tiny bit goes a long way.)

Slice and try not to eat the entire pizza all by yourself.

 

I hope your family enjoys this recipe as much as my family does!