Friday, August 21, 2009

Make your own pizzas for dinner - Garlic Pizza Dough recipe

This recipe is from my good long time friend Sandy, a wonderful woman I’ve known years and years online from a yahoo group and had the pleasure of meeting this past summer. She’s a pastor’s wife and a fantastic cook.

I made this in my bread machine on the dough setting and did the second rise in a bowl. I have it in the fridge now. We’ll have “make your own pizzas” with it tonight. I’ve also made pizza pockets/personal sized calzones with it before – it freezes really well.

Sandy's Garlic Pizza Dough Recipe

2 c Water
1/2 c Oil
3 cl Garlic; crushed
2 tb Sugar
1 ts Salt
6 c Flour
2 pk Yeast

Dissolve yeast in water and add sugar; wait a few minutes; add oil and salt and garlic. Mix in 3 cups flour and whip about 10 min till it leaves the side of the mixer bowl. Add remaining flour and with dough hook or by hand knead till smooth. Allow to rise twice in the bowl. Punch down. (I rush this a bit) Oil baking sheets; use fingers to press the dough out to edges.

Makes 2 pizzas, cookie sheet size, or 12 individual (pie tin) size. Let rise a bit and top. Bake at 425* 20 min.

2 comments:

  1. Did you like it, I wonder?
    I finally found a pizza dough that my whole family is crazy about. It has a truly crusty texture. But the bummer about it is, I can't just make it 15 minutes before I need it. I have to start it the day before, because it likes a long, slow, cold rise in the fridge.

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  2. The garlic one is good, I'll have to try it again. I *NEED* your pizza dough recipe. Pretty please?

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