Saturday, April 11, 2009

Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

This is an adapted version of 101 Cookbooks adapted version of a Peter Reinhart crust recipe :D I love the ancestry of these things.

Ingredients
  • 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 2 cups white flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon instant yeast
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 3/4 cups water, ice cold

Steps:
  1. Mix together the flour, salt, and instant yeast in the bowl of an electric mixer.
  2. Add in the oil and the cold water until the flour is all absorbed.
  3. With the dough hook, mix on medium speed for 5 to 7 minutes, or as long as it takes to create a smooth, sticky dough that clears the bowl of the little fragments.
  4. Transfer the dough to a floured countertop. Cut the dough into 6 equal pieces and mold each into a ball. Rub each ball with olive oil and slip into sandwich bags. Refrigerate overnight.
  5. When you are ready to make pizza (anytime in the next few days), remove the desired number of dough balls from the refrigerator at least 1 hour before making the pizza. Keep them covered so they don't dry out.
  6. Place a baking stone on a rack in the lower third of the oven. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees (you can go hotter, but I like the results I get at 450).
  7. Uncover or unwrap the dough balls and dust them with flour. Working one at a time, gently press a dough round into a disk wide enough that you can bring it up onto your knuckles to thin out - you should be able to pull each round out to 12-inches or so. If the dough is being fussy and keeps springing back, let it rest for another 15-20 minutes.
  8. Place the pulled-out dough on the prepared sheet pan.
  9. Add your toppings and slide the topped pizza onto the baking stone.
  10. Bake until the crust is crisp and nicely colored (about 14 minutes with a solid topping load).
Makes six 6-ounce pizza crusts.

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