Healthy Whole Wheat Spinach Pizza Crust Recipe / Vegan

I never met anyone who doesn't love pizza, its everyones fav regardless of their age. I bake pizza once a week for my daughters lunch box and i try to make it as healthy as possible and sneak in as many vegetables as i can..:),my daughter doesn't mind eating anything over pizza as long as it looks and tastes like pizza and is covered with cheese( vegan offcourse). So yesterday i tried adding spinach puree to my pizza dough and it came out great, on top of that i covered the whole crust with more spinach along with other toppings to increase the dose of spinach in every bite.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour:- 2 Cups
All Purpose flour:- 2 Cup
Warm water:- 1 cup
Yeast:-1 Tbsp
Sugar:- 2 Tbsp
Oil:-1/4 Cup
Salt:- 1/2 Tsp
Spinach Puree:- 1 Cup ( I steamed the spinach before making the puree)

For toppings:-

Onion, Chopped spinach , Marinated Artichoke, vegan cheese

Procedure:-

1. Warm the water in the microwave. Make sure it is not hot otherwise it will kill the yeast.

2. Mix yeast, sugar, salt, oil and warm water together in a bowl. Leave it for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes you should see a froth appearing on this mixture. This indicates that yeast is active.

3. Add wholewheat flour , all purpose flour & spinach puree in the above mixture (from step 2), mix everything well , make this into dough. Dough will be little sticky so flour your surface or apply little oil in your hands to handle the dough.

4. After making dough brush the dough with some oil so that it doesn't dry while we let it to rise or you can cover it with food wrap also.

5. For best rising, select temp as 350F and bake time one minute, turn the oven off after one minute even if it says preheat. The idea is to create a warm environment for the yeast to do its work. Cover the dough with food wrap and let dough rest inside this warm place for 2 hour. The dough will double in size.( punch down the dough after the first hour and let it rise again for 1 hour

6. Prepare your toppings in the meantime.

7. Grease the pizza pan with some oil and then put dough in the center of pizza pan and form it into a disk. I do this by hands and not by rolling pin( you can use the rolling pin if you wish). Make it at least 12" large in diameter so make sure pizza pan is large enough. I use 15"X14" rectangle pan.

8. Let dough stand for 20 more minutes.Put toppings & cheese as you wish.

9. Bake the pizza for 15 minutes at bottom most rack in oven at 450. Make sure the oven is preheated before you put the pizza in.

Enjoy your healthy Pizza..:)

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Perfect Pizza Dough Recipe

This recipe makes a perfect pizza crust. The dough may be prepared up to 24 hours in advance, wrapped in plastic wrap and chilled until ready to use.

Source:- The Easy Way To Artisan Breads & Pastries

Prep Time:- 30 minutes
Resting Time:- 1 Hour
Rising Time:- 10 minutes
Baking Time:- 10 minutes
Makes 2 Pizzas(each 4 slices)or
4 individual pizzas


Ingredients:-

• Bread Flour:- 3 Cups
• Cold Milk:- 1/2 Cup
• Water:- 1/2 Cup
• Sugar:- 2 Tbsp
• Dry Yeast:- 2 Tbsp
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil:- 1 Tbsp
• Salt:- 2 Tsp

Procedure:-

1)In the bowl of a standing electric mixer with the dough hook attached, mix the flour , milk, water, sugar, yeast and olive oil for 5 minutes at low speed. With the machine running add the salt, switch to medium speed and knead the dough an additional 10 minutes.

2) Place the dough in a large floured bowl and cover with plastic wrap.Let rest for 1 hour.

3)Transfer the dough to a floured work surface and flatten it out with the palm of the hand to remove air pockets.Divide the dough into 2 equal pieces(for family sized pizzas) or into 4 pieces (for individual pizzas). Let rise, uncovered, for 10 minutes.

5) Roll each piece into a ball on the floured work surface. (At this point the balls may be wrapped in plastic wrap and chilled in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours.)Using a floured rolling pin , roll the balls of dough into 1/8 inch thick circles.

6) Place a round or square pizza stone in the bottom of the oven and preheat to 500 degree F.

7) Put all the toppings , sauce and cheese as per your liking and bake for 10 minutes , or until lightly browned and bubbly.

Enjoy:)

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