Wholewheat Pizza Dough

Pizza has to be one of the all-time favorite foods. In the United States along hundreds of slices of pizza are eaten every second. It can be eaten as a stand-alone meal, with a salad, it’s even good cold the next day. Why wait for the takeaway pizza shop to deliver a lukewarm, soggy pizza to your door when you can make your own delicious pizza anytime. It’s so quick and easy, especially when you have a bread machine. We use this basic pizza dough recipe to bring any of a number of focaccia bread, pizza bread and pizzas to parties – it’s always a hit! People are often impressed that we made pizza from scratch, but really it’s the quickest, easiest thing we can think of!

Ingredients:
2 tsp active dried yeast
1 cup warm water + 2 T warm water
2 tsp sugar
2 T olive oil
3 cups wholewheat flour

Instructions – bread machine:
Measure all ingredients into the mixing tin. Set the machine to dough cycle (also known as the ‘pizza’ cycle on some machines) and press START.

Instructions – hand kneading:
Add all ingredients except the flour into a large mixing bowl. Add 1 cup of the wholewheat flour and mix thoroughly with a spoon or whisk. Cover and leave for 15 minutes in a warm place to activate the yeast. Stir in the rest of the flour. Tip dough out onto a lightly floured board and knead for 10 minutes, adding more flour if necessary to remove stickiness. Rub 2-3 teaspoons of oil onto dough, put back into mixing bowl and cover with plastic film. Leave to set for 30 minutes before taking dough out and kneading lightly.

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