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Whalen Family Pizza dough

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Whalen family Pizza Dough Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cups warm water
  • 2 1/4 tsps yeast or one packet: buy it in bulk for awesome savings
  • drip of honey or pinch of sugar
  • spices: I like Frontier’s pizza spice, but you can also use fresh herbs, I ADORE ground rosemary in this though. It’s a wonderful spice without the pokey “leaves”.
  • 1-2 tsps sea salt
  • 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
  • 3- 3 1/2 cups flour: I use unbleached, unbromated white flour and mix in 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour. You can also add pureed veggies, or finely grated veggies (depending on how picky your kids are).

Combine water and yeast in the bowl of your mixer. (Don’t have a mixer? This is a great recipe for building upper body strength!)

Add pinch of sweetner, salt, spices,and oil.

Using your dough hook (or a wooden spoon) stir in one cup at a time of flour at a time.

Once you have 3 cups in mix you can turn your dough hook up to 2, or if you are doing it by hand, turn it out onto a floured surface and start kneading.

You may need to add up to 1/2 cup more flour, just make sure to do it gradually, you want it to pull away from the sides of the bowl, or the surface you are kneading on.

Knead for about 10 minutes until the dough can be pulled between your fingers without breaking.

Form a ball, and put in a lightly oiled or floured bowl and cover with a towel. Put in a warm, draft-free spot.

After about 45 minutes-1 hour it should have doubled.

Turn out onto floured surface, cut in half to form 2 pizzas, or several pieces if you have mini pizza pans. Roll into circles. If you are an ex pizza pro like my hubby, you can toss them in the air.

Cover with your favorite sauce, pesto and or cheese and toppings.

We usually make these with homemade pizza sauce, mozzarella or white colby cheese, and pepperoni. I like to top mine with sundried tomatoes, olives, and roasted red peppers. Yum.

You can use this dough recipe for breakfast pizza, dessert pizza, and of course more traditional pizzas.

Enjoy!

Kelly

About Kelly


Kelly Whalen is the founder and editor of the Centsible Life blog. She started the blog 6 years ago as her family faced a mountain of debt. The blog became a resource to readers and a hub for everything you need in life for less. Kelly lives in the Philadelphia area with her superhero husband, 4 awesome kids, and one adorable dog. She still believes you can have it all....just not all at once.


Comments

  1. Kelly,

    1 Comment / 1 Question

    1 Question -> How do you think the price compares to buying the ingridents vs. buying a similarly sized frozen pizza (I use frozen pizza since I know it has to kick the butt of regular pizza place bought)?

    1 Comment -> Also, I bet yours tastes 1000 times better than the regular pizza you can buy down in PA!!!!!!!!

    - Wise A$$ New York Reader!

    Reply

    • WAY cheaper for us. We'd pay $5-6 for a frozen pie that doesn't have weird ingredients, and the cost of making our own dough is probably around 50¢ a pie. Add a block of cheese for $3 and some canned sauce (or make your own) for about $1. So $4.50 for 2 large pies and that's with quality ingredients, I could make it cheaper.

      LOL, we actually have a great pizza place that delivers, but is close enough to walk to, wise guy. My hubby is a bit of a pizza connesuir. But you're right most of the pizza paces here stink.

      Reply

  2. Kelly,

    1 Comment / 1 Question

    1 Question -> How do you think the price compares to buying the ingridents vs. buying a similarly sized frozen pizza (I use frozen pizza since I know it has to kick the butt of regular pizza place bought)?

    1 Comment -> Also, I bet yours tastes 1000 times better than the regular pizza you can buy down in PA!!!!!!!!

    - Wise A$$ New York Reader!

    Reply

    • WAY cheaper for us. We'd pay $5-6 for a frozen pie that doesn't have weird ingredients, and the cost of making our own dough is probably around 50¢ a pie. Add a block of cheese for $3 and some canned sauce (or make your own) for about $1. So $4.50 for 2 large pies and that's with quality ingredients, I could make it cheaper.

      LOL, we actually have a great pizza place that delivers, but is close enough to walk to, wise guy. My hubby is a bit of a pizza connesuir. But you're right most of the pizza paces here stink.

      Reply

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