Pizza Dough( Flour and Whole Wheat)

           

                 Flour Pizza Dough                                          Wheat Pizza Dough

Ingredients: 

For Whole wheat pizza Crust:

1 cups warm water

1 package (2 teaspoons) of active dry yeast

2 cups whole wheat

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 tbsp olive oil

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon sugar

For basic pizza Crust:

1 cups warm water
1 package (2 teaspoons) of active dry yeast
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tbsp olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon sugar

Preparation:
In a bowl add warm water. Sprinkle on the yeast and let that sit for 5 minutes until the yeast is dissolved. Stir to dissolve completely if needed at the end of 5 minutes.

In a large bowl mix in the olive oil, flour/ wheat, salt and sugar.  Add water to the flour mix and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. If the dough seems a little too wet, sprinkle on a bit more flour.

Place ball of dough in a bowl that has been coated lightly with olive oil. Turn the dough around in the bowl so that it gets coated with the oil. Cover with damp cloth. Let sit in a warm place until it doubles in size, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. If you don't have a warm spot in the house you can heat the oven to 150 degrees, and then turn off the oven. Let the oven cool till it is just a little warm, and then place the bowl of dough in this warmed oven to rise.

After 1 hour remove the damp cloth from the dough and punch the dough down so it deflates a bit. Divide the dough in three parts. Form round balls of dough. Place each in its own bowl, cover with damp cloth and let sit for another 1 hour (or several hours longer, a longer rise will improve the flavor). 

At this point, if you want to make ahead, you can freeze the dough in an airtight container for up to two weeks.

For whole wheat pizza crust roll the dough slightly thinner then the flour crust pizza.