Bread Machine Pizza Dough
I love pizza. But both restaurant and frozen pizza are often higher calorie than they need to be. My solution? I make my own using my handy booklet of Bread Machine recipes!
So, it’s easy to make the dough. After it’s made, I pile on lower fat cheese and way more veggies than you find on most packaged pizzas.
Now, I always tweak recipes a bit. Here is my current recipe for pizza dough. This makes a pizza dough that is the calorie equivalent of 12 slices of bread:
Ingredients:
- 1 1/8 C water.
- 1 T olive oil
- 3 C bread flour
- 2 T soy flour
- 1 T sugar
- 1 t salt
- 1 t Italian spices.
- 1 T bread machine yeast.
Procedure:
Add ingredients to the machine in order listed. Program the machine to make yeast using the French Bread or White Bread setting aiming to have the dough ready 1 hour before you want to eat the pizza.
Meanwhile, prepare the pizza sauce, and toppings. When the dough is ready, dust with extra flour, and roll out to 1/4 inch thickness. Add toppings. I’ll show the rest of the recipe later. 
I make pizza dough in my bread machine too. I like to use a mix of white and wheat flour. The taste is great and it adds a little extra nutrition.
And of course the kids think I’m wonderful any day I make homemade pizza.
Stephanie (3 comments.) - June 2nd, 2007 at 11:22 pmI LOVE pizza, it’s my other weakness. I don’t have any tips on making the dough with a bread machine, as I used to make it with flour from a supplier and used a proofer; however, if you ever want to get those vegetables to taste better on a pizza, try adding them when the pizza’s already half-cooked, so they still cook, but keep their flavor and don’t dry out or burn. I started doing this and noticed a big difference in taste, especially with the fresh tomatoes I used. I’ve never tried low-fat cheese, though. Maybe that explains my growing belly! (oh, your bread machines recipe link is dead, at least from my end).
jerky joe (new comment) - October 31st, 2008 at 10:30 pm