5.01.2009

Crusty Pizza Dough

This is a Bread Machine Recipe I use every Friday (in fact I have to start a batch right after I finish posting this!) The kids love it and it's healthy. Ground Flaxseed is either in the baking aisle or with the granola heath food stuff.  When I run out of Flax seed, the dough comes out great without it too (just pay attention to the directions about how much water which depend on if there is flax seed or not because its so absorbant). Sometimes i change the ratio of wheat-to-white flour (the recipe has 2 to 2, but i usually do 3 white to 1 part wheat), but the total flour amount has to stay the same obviously. The batches can be mixed in 3 different sizes, which I'm going to seperate with a '|' mark so be careful to be consistant!!!!

(batch size: small | medium | large)
Water       2/3 cup | 1 cup | 1 1/3 cup
Olive Oil     1 tbs | 1 1/2 tbs  | 2 tbs
Salt     1/2 tsp | 1/2 tsp | 3/4 tsp
All Purpose Flour     1 cup | 1 1/2 cups | 2 cups
Whole Wheat Flour     1 cup | 1 1/2 cups | 2 cups
Yeast      1 tsp | 1 1/2 tsp | 2 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp | 1 1/2 tsp | 2 tsp
Ground Flaxseed  1/4 cup | 1/3 cup | 1/2 cup
(increase water if including ground flax seed. increase small batch to 1 1/8 cups, medium batch to 1 1/2 cups large batch to 2 cups)

Add ingredients in order given. make indentation  row in flour to put in yeast and sugar. Set bread machine to dough cycle. When done, turn dough out of machine onto floured surface (add water if too stiff, four if too gooey) Let rest for 10 mins then  spread dough on oiled pan. (for thicker crust, allow to rise agian, if desired) add sauce, cheese and toppings, bake 10 mins on 500 deg, or until done.




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