1.) First, make homemade pizza crust:
2-3 Cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp yeast
2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1 1/4 cup warm water
Olive oil
Dissolve 1 tsp yeast in the warm water, then add 1 cup of the flour and stir together. Add the remaining yeast, salt and sugar and mix. Add the second cup of flour slowly mixing together until the dough is hard to stir. Dump out another 1/2 cup flour on the counter and turn the dough onto it. Fill the bowl with water and let soak. Knead the dough adding flour until it doesn't stick anymore but is pliable and still a little moist. Keep kneading, lightly dusting remaining flour until the dough is springy and not too sticky (5-10 minutes). Rinse out and scrape the bowl and dry. Pour some olive oil into the bowl and place the dough ball into the bowl coating it with the olive oil. Cover with damp, lint-free, cloth for about 2 hours.
When the dough has risen (approx. 2 hours), preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Dust a pizza pan with some flour then work the dough onto the pizza pan until you have what resembles pizza crust.
2.) Crust coating:
Coat the pizza crust with a mixture of olive oil, oregano, onion powder, salt and pepper. Finely chop 2-3 cloves of garlic and sprinkle all over the uncooked pizza crust.
3.) Baking:
Place in preheated oven for approximately 15 minutes, but check after about 12 minutes and allow it to stay in for 20 if necessary. You're looking for a golden brown crust. Remove from oven and let cool.
4.) Cream cheese, veggie topping:
Put about 8 oz softened cream cheese in a bowl add to it salt, pepper, oregano, onion powder, dill, and garlic powder. Stir until the completely combined. Spread out onto the cooling pizza crust.
5.) The toppings:
You can do whatever you want with this one, but here's what I did. Tomato, cucumber, spinach (which I ripped into small pieces), fresh basil (just a few leaves, which I ripped into tiny pieces), diced avocado (this was a risk that paid off in flavor and texture), topped off with some grated Parmesan cheese.
Try this and enjoy! Here are some pictures.
Bon Appetite- the paper plate just classed it up |
My 5 year old does not like topping, hence the triangular void- He loved the pizza though |
The Crust |
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