Easy Homemade Pizza Dough
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Pizza Dough Recipe:
Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons Yeast
1 Tablespoon sugar or honey
2 cups warm water (105°F-115°F)
5 cups bread flour
4 tablespoons oil of choice (olive for savory, vegetable or other for sweet)
1 tablespoon salt
Directions
Put water, sugar or honey, water and oil in the bowl of a stand mixer with the dough hook.
Let it sit for a few minutes until you see a couple bubbles.
Add 4 cups of the flour and mix. If it is not cleaning the bowl after a minute or two, add the remaining flour. You may need to add more than the 5 cups if it is pretty humid for it to clean the bowl.
After your dough cleans the bowl, leave the mixer on with the dough hook for 5 minutes to knead.
Coat dough with oil and let it sit until doubled in size or put in a oiled zip top bag for up to a week.
Once it has doubled, spread the dough out on a pan, add sauce, toppings and cheese and bake at 500 for 7-10 minutes.
Sauce recipe
Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 tbsp italian seasoning or basil and oregano
salt and pepper to taste
1 28 oz can of crushed or diced tomatoes.
Optional: a small onion, red pepper flakes
Directions
add oil to pan, and saute garlic. Be careful with the garlic because it burns easily. If you want to add an onion, saute it until clear and then add garlic.
Add spices and seasoning to the hot oil and cook for a few seconds.
Add the tomatoes.
Cook down for 20-30 minutes minimum. The longer it cooks, the more the flavors concentrate and the stronger the sauce becomes.
Pizza “recipes” from video
Tips for all:
grate your own cheese
Buffalo Chicken
Leftover chicken nuggets
Buffalo sauce (mix of texas pete and butter)
cheddar cheese
Traditional
homemade tomato sauce
mozarella
pepperoni or other toppings of choice
Smores
chocolate chips
crumbled graham cracker crumbs
marshmallows (add after baking for 10 minutes at 400°F)
Cinnamon roll pizza
melted butter
cinnamon sugar
dip in icing
Calzone
use half a pizza dough, stretch into circle
add cheese and toppings
fold over and crimp edges
brush with garlic butter
bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes
serve with sauce
Stromboli
use half a pizza dough and stretch into a rectangle
add cheese, toppings, and sauce if you would like
roll up like a cinnamon roll
brush with garlic butter
bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes
Breadsticks
roll out dough (shape doesn’t matter)
cut into strips
twist if you would like
brush with garlic butter
add spices of choice (I use Herbs De Provence from Spice Bouquet)
Bake at 400°F for 15-20 minutes
Pizza is something that you can be as creative as you would like to be. It’s really fun to make the dough and let kids decorate and experiment with it so that they get used to making their own food. This is also a super cook way to expose them to new vegetables or meat sources. For younger kids, make the dough for them, but for older ones, they can make the dough as well. I always encourage experimentation and mistakes in my class and don’t penalize my students for it. (Unless they use a huge amount of an ingredient that was not meant for their class, they cause danger to others, or they do something that could injure themselves.) I always feel like we learn much more from messing up than we do from just happening to get it right the first time. When kids screw up food, they get really mad because it is possibly not edible, so they are much more likely to remember how they messed up and how not to repeat it. My Culinary School instructor Chef Schomberg use to call those “teachable moments.” As teachers we have to take advantage of those moments. Jumping right to yelling at a kid for a mistake takes away the learning opportunity.
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Let us know below which pizza recipe you would like to try!