Pizza Dough Recipe
Homemade Pizza Recipe

The ingredients in the pizza dough recipe determine how healthy or unhealthy the pizza is going to turn out. Just by adding a pinch of herbs you will authenticate the flavor and increase its benefits. Herbs are a great source of antioxidants and once dried because the concentration in dried herbs is greater than in fresh ones, since they no longer contain water.

The herb oregano is great in pizza dough, homemade pizza sauce, salads or on a grilled cheese sandwich. Rosemary, paprika and basil all contain preventative nutrients and will enhance the flavour of any pizza as well as in many other dishes. Herbs are just as good as fruits and vegetables but in a lower quantity and in a more concentrated form. Also by simply changing the flour used in the base from plain to whole meal flour or to spelt flour you are significantly increasing its potential to become a healthier pizza dough.

With using pizza dough you have an opportunity to create much more than a just a flat round pizza. You can make pizza pockets, pizza dough filled with your favorite filling, pizza scones, pizza roles or pizzettes just to name a few. These are all options of how you can use pizza dough to make various things for not only dinner and lunch but as a snack as well.

Pizzettes (like in the photo above)

Take one lot of the pizza dough recipe. Makes about 45 pieces.

Take one lot of the pizza dough recipe. Makes about 45 pieces.

• 1x Pizza dough
• About 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  
• 9 medium sized tomatoes, sliced
• 1/4 cup of chopped fresh basil
• 1/2 cup of grated cheese mozzarella or an other cheese
  

Preheat the oven to 190C°. Convert!

1. With a rolling pin roll out the dough to about half a centimeter in thickness.
2. Use a  cookie cuter or tumbler to cut out the round shaped bases.
3. Spread the discs onto a greased or baking paper lined tray.
4. Brush them with olive oil.
5. Layer one slice of tomato, then chopped fresh basil, topped with some grated mozzarella or some other hard cheese onto the small round base.
6. Bake the pizzettes at 190C° for 10-15 minutes.
   

Making and topping, pizza dough is a great way to get the kids involved in the kitchen. Here are some of the pizza dough recipes that we use, to get you thinking about all the different options that are available.

Basic pizza dough recipe:
Tray size 22/30cm 2 ½ cups flour
Tray size 25/38cm 3 cups flour

Method:

Add the flour, olive oil and herbs (optional), salt (optional) together in a bowl. Make well in the middle. In the well add the yeast and water then leave the yeast to dissolve in the water for 10 minutes or some reaction is visible through bubbles on the surface. Then knead, add bid by bid water until you get a smooth round ball. Leave to rise in a warm place for about 1 -2 hours.

Simple two ingredient pizza dough:
For one medium pizza

Method:

Mix ingredients together leave to rise in a warm place for 6-12 hours.

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