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Almost Italian Pizza with whole wheat flour from scratch

Thin wheat/whole grain Pizza inspired by an Italian recipe from scratch.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Dough rising time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 40 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: Italian, Pizza, Pizza from scratch, whole wheat
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 250kcal
Cost: 12 Eur

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Rolling pin
  • Baking tray

Ingredients

Crust

  • ½ ounce fresh yeast (You could substitute it with 1½ teaspoon of active dry yeast)
  • 1 cup warm water
  • ½ cup Whole wheat flour
  • 1½ cup Regular wheat flour (Have extra to flour hands and table later)
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 tbsp olive oil (extra-virgin)
  • ¼ cup grated cheese (This is optional, we just like cheese. Tastes best with hard cheese)

Sauce

  • 1 cup tomato paste
  • 1½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp basil
  • 1 pinch pepper
  • 2 cloves garlic (Tastes best if crushed and fried in olive oil)

Toppings

  • 3 cups grated cheese (You can actually add as much cheese as you want)
  • anything you would like on your pizza

Instructions

Dough preparation

  • Mix warm water, olive oil and yeast and let it sit in a warm place until you see little bubbles.
  • Mix salt with flour, then add oregano, and grated cheese.
  • Combine everything well until it becomes one lump hard enough to knead it in your hands.
  • Cover it, put it in a warm place and let it rise for 1 hour.
  • After it has risen, sprinkle some flour on the table, on your hands and on your rolling pin, then take out the dough. Press/punch it so the extra air comes out of the dough and knead it a few times. Don't knead it too many times as it will make the dough rise less
  • Using a rolling pin, roll it into the desired shape, thickness and size. If it is sticky - add more flour.
  • Flour the baking tray or put baking paper and place the flattened dough on top.

Sauce

  • Crush or cut garlic in small pieces and fry it in olive oil.
  • Mix in tomato paste, oregano, basil, pepper, and salt.
  • Let simmer.
  • As it cools off some, spread a thin layer of sauce on the dough.

Bake

  • Spread cheese and all the toppings on your sauced pizza dough.
  • Heat oven to 200°C (about 400 °F) and cook for about 20 minutes (or until the whole kitchen smells like hot and freshly baked pizza)

Notes

Make sure you have snacks while you are preparing it, because it may take a while and you don't want to become hangry. This is experience talking...