No-Rise Basic Pizza Dough (recipe)

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No-Rise Basic Pizza Dough

(Made in a food processor)

Makes 1 14-inch pizza crust or 2 9-inch pizza crusts

 

1 package active dry yeast

1 tsp. sugar

2/3 cup warm water

1 cup unbleached all purpose flour

2/3 cup whole wheat flour

3/4 tsp. salt

2 tsp. olive oil (I add a little more)

 

Stir yeast and sugar into warm water and let stand

until foamy, about 10 minutes. Insert metal blade

into the food processor and put flour and salt into

the work bowl and attach lid. Turn on the machine and

pour yeast mixture through feed tube and process about

45 seconds, until dough pulls away from the sides of

the bowl. Add the oil through the feed tube and

process 60 seconds longer.

 

If dough sticks to the sides of bowl, add more flour,

1 tablespoon at a time, processing for 10 seconds

after each addition, until dough leaves sides of bowl

but remains soft.

 

Roll dough on floured surface into circle, rotating

and turning dough often and using enough flour so it

doesn't stick. If dough resists rolling, let it rest

for a few minutes and try again. Roll dough into

15-inch circle for flat 14-inch pizza pan, or into

10-inch circles for flat 9-inch pans.

 

Oil pan(s) lightly. Fold rolled dough into half

loosely and then in half again. Position point at

center of pan and gently unfold. Press into place

from center outward, turn under the 1-inch overhand

and shape it into a rim. Crust(s) is/are now ready to

bake and fill.

 

To bake pizzas:

 

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place rack in the lower

third of the oven. Bake pizza crust(s) for 6 minutes.

In the meantime, prepare fillings.

 

Top with favorite toppings and bake until the crust is

golden and the cheese (if using) is melted.

 

Some favorite toppings:

 

spaghetti sauce or marinara

pesto

texas (cilantro) pesto

barbeque sauce

 

mozzarella

provolone

monterrey jack

 

artichoke hearts

black and green olives

red and green bell peppers

mushrooms (baby bellas)

onions

jalapenos

pepperocini peppers

spinach