Whole Wheat Flour Thin Crust Pizza

Whole Wheat Flour Thin Crust Pizza

For this month’s We Knead to Bake we were to make a Pizza. We all love pizza so the girls were waiting for me to make the pizza. I choose Whole Wheat Flour Thin Crust Pizza.

Whole Wheat Flour Thin Crust Pizza

Whole Wheat Flour Thin Crust Pizza

• 2 ½ cups whole wheat flour chapatti atta + some more to dust
• 2 teaspoon active dry yeast (I used Crown brand)
• ½    cup + ½   cup water( I needed 2 tblspn more)
• 2 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tblspn olive oil
• A few leaves basil shredded
• 1 cup pizza sauce ( approx.)
• Capsicum, mushrooms, tomatoes, olives
• Mozzarella and gruyere cheese and parmesan cheese
•  Sage, oregano, thyme, sweet marjoram, garlic.

• In ½ cup warm water add sugar swirl let the sugar dissolve a bit add the yeast mix well set aside for 10mins in a warm place.
• The mixture will start frothing this means that your yeast is active.
• In a mixing bowl add the yeast solution and oil, salt, basil whisk it well. Add wheat flour and mix .Add the remaining ½ cup water. (I needed about 2 tblspn more).
•  Mix well and knead it to form smooth pliable dough. Cover with a kitchen napkin and let it rest in a warm place in a
  greased bowl till double in size or 2 hours.
• After the end of the rise time the dough will have risen punch it down.
• Preheat the oven for 150 °C.
• Grease a baking tray with little oil.
• Divide the dough and make 3 balls for 3 pizzas.
• Dust the ball with the dry flour and roll the dough to a thin base and if you want you can cut it out with a lid to get perfect circles. I did not.
• Prick the base with fork for even cooking and to avoid puffing up.
• Transfer the rolled pizza base to the baking tray.
• You could bake in preheated oven at 150 deg C for 7-9 minutes.
• The base will leave the sides and brown it will also move easily in the tray. Your base is done do not over bake.
• Cool down completely and store in zip lock bag and keep it refrigerated.
•  You can bring the base to room temperature when you want to make the pizzas and make it with your toppings.
•   This is one way but if you are as impatient to eat a pizza as we were then you need not store them.

• Spread your  sauce on the raw base and toppings to make your pizza.
• This is my pizza sauce and for toppings I have used capsicum, mushrooms, tomatoes, olives and mozzarella and Gruyere cheese and Parmesan cheese. The herbs I used are sage, oregano, thyme, sweet marjoram, garlic.
• The temperature I used is 180°C and baked it for 20 minutes.