PIZZAAH!!!

Sunday night is often pizza night. Tonight was no different. While I like to make artisan breads, I usually revert to the tried and true bread machine to make pizza dough.

Tonight's recipe was:

1 1/3 cups Water
2 tbsp Olive Oil
2 cups All Purpose Flour
2 cups Whole Wheat Flour
2 tsp Instant Yeast

To add a little different flavor to the dough, I added 1 1/2 tsp Z'atar - an Israeli herb mixture that I really like to use.

This makes enough dough for two pizzas, so the other half went in the freezer for another day. For the pizza, just a little olive oil on top of the dough to stop the rolling pin from sticking. Rolled it out nice and thin to about 14 inches diameter.

Now for the topping:

The base is a little marinara sauce covered with chopped whole tomatoes, salt and pepper. One half has olives and turkey sausage, the other caramelized onions and spinach. Finally a topping of mozzarella cheese.

Ready for the oven

Here it is ready for the oven which was preheated to 450^oF. Baked it in the oven at 450^oF for 30 minutes on a pizza stone.

Nice consistent oven spring, edge rose from about 3/8 in to a little over 1/2 in.

Excellent thin crust pizza. Yum!!

The finished product