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Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- Ingredients
- 9 ozs Whole wheat flour
- 5 ozs Pastry flour (Type 405, plus more for dusting)
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cube fresh Yeast
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 2 ½ Tbsps olive oil (plus more for bowl)
Mound the flour and salt on a clean work surface and make a well in the middle.
Dissolve the yeast into a cup of warm water, then pour the yeast mixture along with the honey into the well.
Working from the center out, mix everything thoroughly. Gradually add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and mix into a loose dough.
Knead the dough vigorously with floured hands until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.
Brush a bowl with olive oil.
Put the dough into the bowl and cover with a kitchen towel (or lightly oiled plastic wrap). Let rise in a warm place until dough has doubled in bulk, 30-45 minutes. The dough is now ready for use.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
Calorie | 422 cal. | (20 %) | ||
Protein | 12 g | (12 %) | ||
Fat | 9 g | (8 %) | ||
Carbohydrates | 71 g | (47 %) | ||
Sugar added | 2 g | (8 %) | ||
Roughage | 8.5 g | (28 %) |
Healthy, because
With this basic recipe, you will get a delicious, smooth pizza dough in no time at all, which you can spread as you like. With a clever topping, pizza is not a fattening food either. How about an aromatic tomato sauce, mushrooms, gorgonzola and olives? Either way, the pizza dough scores points with a high proportion of whole grains, providing an extra portion of intestine-healthy fibre, unsaturated fatty acids, B vitamins and minerals.
Even smarter
For the yeast to work properly, it needs not only heat, but also something sweet. That's why this also applies to savoury doughs: Always add some honey or sugar.