I love using focaccia bread for pizza crust and recently I have been loving Tyler Florence’s Fabulous Focaccia recipe. The recipe below is pretty much Tyler Florence’s except my slight change of using whole wheat and unbleached flour together (the directions are pretty much from his recipe, so following the directions directly from Tyler Florence works too, maybe even better).
ingredients:
2 tsp active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
2 tbsp sugar
3 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup unbleached flour
1 tbsp coarse salt
1/4 cup olive oil
In a mixer, proof the yeast by adding together the warm water and sugar. Stir gently until it dissolves. Let stand until foams appears. Turn mixer on low and slowly add the flour to the bowl. Dissolve salt in 2 tbsps of water and add it to the mixture. Pour in 1/4 cup olive oil. Once well mixed, increase the speed to medium. Mix until dough is smooth. If dough is too wet, add more flour; if too dry, add a bit of water.
Turn dough out onto a clean surface and gently knead it a few times. Form dough into a round ball and place in an oiled bowl. Cover with a damp towel and place it in a warm place. Allow the dough to rise (when it is doubled in size) for about 1 hour.
Once dough has doubled in size, place on a clean surface. Roll out dough to desired pizza size and desired crust thickness. We are a fan of thin crust, so we roll it out until dough is about 1/4” to 1/2” thick. Place desired toppings to create your pizza. When we make pizza, we usually have the oven at the highest heat setting possible and depending the toppings, the pizza will bake anywhere from 10-18 minutes.
The pizza we made for our fall-ebration was an Acorn Squash and Gorgonzola Pizza taken from here. It is really yum, but we like more spice to we used a chili garlic oil right on top of the crust before we put on the cheese (and we even drizzled just a smidge on top before we ate it)
You will just love this pizza! Anyone else feeling a wee bit hungry?!
p.s. i usually triple the recipe and separate the dough into 6 balls and freeze them, so i have dough ready when i want fresh pizza.
I am! Actually more than a wee bit 😉 After reading the recipe and seeing the picture, I cannot not wait to try it. Sounds so yummy and so easy at the same time. Thanks for sharing!
I recently discovered a love for gorgonzola on pizza (particularly with figs! I know, I wouldn't have thought of it either). Thanks for posting this recipe, I'm looking forward to trying it out!
on Brave: dress, vintage from ms. tips. boots, siaomimi via gilt.
on Soul: dress, vintage. shoes, vintage.
I think True is a clog lover like me! As soon as she got these, she was wearing them all over. She says she is like mommy and gets to wear high heels! It is cute she thinks clogs are high heels and it is cute that she wants to be like me. I find all my girls are like that though. They like to watch me get dress and imitate things I do and wear. I remember doing that to my mom and wanting to put rollers in my hair and prancing around in her high heels all over the house. Oh, it is quite fun to be such a girly girl!
If you have been following my particular obsessions these past few months, then you know they have been clogs and ankle boots. Then you can imagine my excitement when these came to me! Complete perfection. If you are skeptical of wooden sole shoes, I can attest to them being comfy. Somehow the arch of the sole mesh well with my feet and feel really good, which is an added bonus when it comes to shoes cause I know most of us girls will suffer for fashion. Aren't I right?
This was us a few weeks ago, so my hair is still its natural dark color and Bravey and I were wearing gold dresses, so we declared ourselves twinsies! Actually, this was taken on Thanksgiving and the day before I changed it. We will be sure to all get dressed up again on Christmas and attempt to get another family picture in, since we didn't really get one for Thanksgiving (except this).
This is the first year we are hosting Christmas at our house, so we are all sorts of excited! Ben is working on the menu and we are working on getting the house clean and decorated. We still have a long list of to-dos until we are ready, but we are slowly chopping away and come Saturday we will be ready for family, eating and lots of merry making!
I am! Actually more than a wee bit 😉 After reading the recipe and seeing the picture, I cannot not wait to try it. Sounds so yummy and so easy at the same time. Thanks for sharing!
I recently discovered a love for gorgonzola on pizza (particularly with figs! I know, I wouldn't have thought of it either).
Thanks for posting this recipe, I'm looking forward to trying it out!
you are totally making me hungry hun!! this looks delish!!
Yummy to the maximus yummiest!!!!
This looks delicious, just one questions though. At what point do you freeze the dough? before you let it rise?
It looks soooooo delicious, I'm going to have to try this recipe for myself. Thanks for posting!
-Ceci.
I made (and loved) the recipe! Thansk for sharing!
http://selfishlyhappy.blogspot.com/2011/05/recipe-pizza-crust.html