Thin Crust Pizza
Recipe adapted from Frugal Girl.
10 ounces unbleached all-purpose flour (about 2 cups)
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1/2 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon salt
6.2 ounces water (about 3/4 cup plus 1 1/2 teaspoons), 100 to 105 degrees
1/4 cup olive oil(I used 1/2 vegetable oil & 1/2 applesauce)
PREHEAT OVEN AND PIZZA STONE TO 425 degrees.
1. Mix everything but the water and oil in the bowl.
2. Mix in the water.
3. Mix in the applesauce (I love applesauce as a substitute for oil - I use it all the time). Then mix in the oil and make sure it gets distributed throughout.
4. The recipe says to take the dough out and knead it, but I usually just knead it around in the bowl. I don't enjoy wiping flour up from my counters.
5. Place it in some dish in the refrigerator. I don't know why you are supposed to do this because I made a mini pizza before I put it in the refrigerator and after and I didn't see a difference. You are supposed to leave it in there over night, but I wanted it to be ready for dinner.
6. Now the recipe calls for you to roll it out on parchment paper and that way you can stick it onto the hot pizza stone in the oven. However, I made smaller pizzas so that I could stick them directly onto the pizza stone. I rolled them about six or seven inches in diameter (on cornmeal). Then I placed them on the pizza stone and let them cook for about two or three minutes (or until firm enough to pick up with a spatula and able to carry their own weight and not flop around). I rolled mine as thin as I could without them breaking because they will shrink a little when they are moved around.
7. Add pizza sauce and toppings. Place place on pizza stone in the oven for about 10 - 15 minutes depending how crunchy you want your thin crust to be.
And thanks to the Townsends for the peppers and the pumpkin. I went over to Rachel's on Saturday, while Jared was at work, and carved this wonderful little pumpkin. I think it turned out really well.
What are your favorite toppings? Jared's?
ReplyDeleteHa ha-I love the ampersand pumpkin!
My favorite topping is onions and green peppers (not sweet peppers like my parents). I also enjoy bacon, sausage, ham, plain cheese, and a few more.
ReplyDeleteJared doesn't care what he has or that is what I think I have finally come to realize. I asked him today, for maybe the fourth or fifth time (in five years) what he wanted on his pizza. He almost angerly expressed to me that he had told me before that it didn't matter. So I guess it really doesn't matter. But I feel as if he should enjoy one kind over another kind... So I don't know. Heh. I will probably keep wondering for the rest of my life if I am making his favorite pizza or something he doesn't enjoy.