Homemade Pizza

Homemade Pizza

Posted by Brit

Brandon found a crust recipe on reddit, I believe so I'm not sure who to credit but it is directly quoted. The dough is easy and has a good flavor.

Pizza Crust:
"It makes 3 thin crust pizzas and if you don't want to make them all at once freeze (keeps for a while) or refrigerate (use within at the most a week) the dough. I like to make 2 pizzas, one for myself and the other for my boyfriend.. the remaining dough I use to make calzones! Here's the recipe: Combine: 2 1/4 tsp dry active yeast and 1 cup warm water (not hot and not cold) Add: 1 tsp honey, 2 Tablespoons olive oil (or vegetable oil) and 1 tsp salt. Stir. Gradually add (as you mix with a spatula or your hands): 2 1/2 cups flour. Place a cloth over the dough and let it rise for 10 min or longer if it hasn't doubled in size. Roll out your pizzas and enjoy! I've noticed that if you bake the crusts before adding the toppings (at about 400F for the time it takes you to get your toppings ready) the crust is nice and crispy."

We pre baked our crust for four minutes and they turned out perfect.  Pre bake on the middle rack of the oven.

Pizza 1 Toppings:
Garlic
White Onion
Red Bell Pepper
Spinach
Heirloom Tomato
Bacon
Asiago
Mozzarella

We (Brandon) lightly sautéed the red bell pepper, garlic and onion.  We finely chopped the spinach and put some large (circumference) but thin slices of heirloom tomatoes. We thought the veggie chunks could be a bit bigger but the flavor was awesome.

Pizza 2 Toppings:
Yellow Onion
Green Bell Pepper
Garlic
Red Bell Pepper
Shredded Purple Cabbage
Spinach
Heirloom Tomato
Bacon
Mozzarella
Asiago

Again, we lightly sautéed the bell pepper, garlic and onion.  This one wasn't bad, but we definitely decided keeping it simple is the way to go.  The flavors just kind of trampled over one another.

After pre baking crust and then topping it, spread olive oil or your bacon grease around the edge of the crust to keep it moist during the second bake.  Move oven rack closer to the top of the oven and bake until cheese is melted, which for us was about 5 minutes.  We didn't use a lot of cheese though, about 1 cup per pizza of mozzarella and just a little shredded asiago.

Topping Time

First Pizza

We had Smoky Hill Pasta Vino with our pizza.