Thursday, September 30, 2010

Homemade Pizza

Basic Pizza Dough  (from Family Circle)
1 cup warm water (about 110 degrees)
1 package dry active yeast
2 3/4 all- purpose flour
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil

Place water in small bowl, stir in yeast let stand for 5 minutes

In large bowl , whisk together 2 1/2 cups of the flour, sugar and salt. make a well in the center and add the yeast mixture and olive oil.stir dough until it comes together and forms a ball. Turn out onto a well floured surface and knead for 5 minutes, adding as much of the remaining 1/4 cup of flour as needed.  Form into a disk and place in a bowl that has been lightly coated with olive oil. turn disk over and cover with plastic wrap. Allow to rise in warm place for 2 hours.

Remove dough from bowl and punch down. roll into desired diameter.. I made three dinner plate sized pizza's

Pizza Sauce
2-  8oz  cans canned tomato sauce (I used low sodium)
3 tbsp garlic
1 tsp sugar
5 tbsp Italian spices
1 tsp onion powder

I just mixed the above ingredients  until it tasted good to me.










Roll out dough to desired size place on pizza pan then add sauce and toppings


Pizza Topping
Prepackaged Pizza Cheese mixture
Jimmy Dean Sage sausage
Fresh Mushrooms

Charlie and I just had cheese pizza , Chaz had Mushrooms and sausage on his.






Baked our for 9 minutes each.

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