Healthy Food Recipes - Classic Italian Pizza

Healthy Food Recipes - Classic Italian Pizza

Nothing says lovin like something from the oven and this classic Italian Pizza says it very well. shiny red rich tomato sauce, redolent with the scent of fennel seed, basil, and garlic serves as the faulty. Topped with sausage, spinach, onions, artichokes, and covered with creamy mozzarella cheese.

expend purchased pizza dough, or perform your gain.

Add one package of dry yeast to a cup of warm, but not hot water, with a pinch of sugar, let place about five minutes.

Sift, okay truth be told I never sift, but all the cookbooks say you should. I unprejudiced measure and dump. Dump 3 level cups of white flour into a bowl. construct a well in the center of the flour. Add 2 tablespoons virgin olive oil and the yeasty water. move with a spoon until the dough becomes too stiff for the spoon. Then incorporate the rest of the flour using your hands.

Knead for 10 minutes. Kneading seems like a magic trick but it's not. Pat the dough into a ball. seize the heel of your palm and press down on one side of the ball squishing it out the other side. Give the dough a quarter turn and push down with the palm of your hand and squish. Fold relieve the squished side into the ball. Give a quarter turn and continue. That' s handsome distinguished all you need to know. Time the kneading because it seems that 10 minutes takes forever. And you knead a well needed dough (that was a pun.)

space dough in a bowl that has been wiped with olive oil. win a trustworthy leer at the size of the ball of dough. hide with a well-organized kitchen towel. Let the dough rise in a warm state until it has doubled in size. That's why you had to spy at it, so you know it's doubled.

When it's doubled divide into two equal pieces. Roll out one portion the size of a 12 scuttle circle and site in a pan lightly rubbed with olive oil. A cookie sheet works as well as a pizza pan. Spread with tomato sauce then raw spinach, onions, red peppers, mushrooms, or whatever other veggies you like. Top with cooked Italian sausage, ground beef, ham, or other meats. Veggies can be raw but meats should be cooked. Top with cheese.

Do the same thing with the other fragment of dough but vary the toppings if you like.

If you consume a thin crispy crust bake immediately in an oven that has been preheated to 425 degrees. If you like a thicker crust, let the pizza rest in a warm position for about 30 minutes. The dough will rise again giving you a chewier crust.

Pizza should bake about 20 minutes. Gently steal up the pizza to spy if the underside is golden brown. If it is your pizza is ready. If the underside is composed pale but the toppings are beginning to brown too noteworthy, camouflage the top with foil.

There you have it. You don't need anything else to beget this a complete meal. Well okay - maybe a beer.