It Doesn’t Have To Break Your Diet
October 13th 2009 12:01
Yummy...Easy...and Homemade...
“No…no, not that. I’m on a diet.” “Oh, they're fattening.”
“No, they aren't,” I exclaimed. “Mine aren’t…”
If you’ve become familiar with commercial pizzas, images of greasy dough with (too many) toppings might invade your mind. If you’ve however been exposed to authentic pizzas, you’ll know that they don’t deserve the bad reputation that they sometimes carry.
A good pizza has a good base, with good tomato sauce and (bare) minimum toppings. It can also be healthier if you make them yourself, and especially when you use wholemeal flour.
Here’s a tried-and-tested recipe modification for healthier pizza dough (using your breadmaker), wholemeal pizza dough.
I use the ‘dough setting’ of the Sunbeam ‘Quantum Smartbake’ to make this dough. It makes excellent pizza dough – if you prefer making pizza the conventional way, try this recipe (here).
What you need:
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
330g plain flour
150g wholemeal flour
2 1/2 teaspoons yeast
nicely risen wholemeal dough...ready to be flatten 
What to do:1…Put ingredients in, in (above) order, or follow the instructions in your breadmaker booklet. Check consistency after about 15 minutes, add 1 tablespoon of water if necessary.
2…When the ‘dough setting’ completes its cycle (1.5 hours), switch off the breadmaker and leave the dough in there for at least another 20-30 minutes. The dough rises a lot more in that time and becomes very light and fluffy, delivering beautiful pizza dough.
3…Proceed to make your pizza – for ideas, click here.
Makes: 3 medium-thin pizza bases.
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