Pizza has been a staple of the American diet for a very long time now.  At your typical pizza restaurant, there are all sorts of different varieties of toppings, crusts, and even toppings inside of crusts!  Vegetarian pizza has been available at these establishments for a long time in the form of a vegetable-heavy pie.  This is a convenient choice if you are running late for dinner or just out on the town and craving pizza.

If you’re at home, though, instead of reaching for the phone to order a pizza, why not make a vegetarian pizza yourself?  It’s easy to make your own vegetarian pizza, and you get complete control over what goes into it – or, more importantly, what doesn’t go into it.

Make your Own

To start your vegetarian pizza, you’ll need a pizza crust.  You can find these premade in the supermarket, or you can easily make them yourself.  Making pizza crust is kind of like making bread, but even easier.  You can find lots of recipes for pizza crust that don’t require rising, so you can be eating your home-cooked vegetarian pizza even quicker than you could if you called for delivery.

Next, you’ll need to decide on cheese.  If you are a vegan or strict vegetarian, you’ll want to avoid the dairy cheese and opt instead for one of the many other options.  Your vegetarian pizza can feature soy cheese, cheese made from rice milk, or a delicious cheesy sauce made with nutritional yeast and flour.  You can even opt to leave the cheese off entirely.  Many people fear that this ruins the vegetarian pizza, but the truth is that pizza can taste just as delicious without the cheese.  A cheese-free pizza lets the toppings and the seasonings shine.

The toppings will come next – this is the part that is prone to causing arguments among friends who are sharing the pizza tab.  Toppings on your vegetarian pizza can be pretty much anything you fancy: any type of vegetable, meat substitutes, and even fruit are all fair game.

Hit the Supermarket, Not the Phone Book

If you don’t want to do delivery because you can never be sure what they put in their pizzas, but you just don’t have the energy to make one from scratch, you can pick up a frozen vegetarian pizza in most supermarkets.  Again, you’ll have to choose between the traditional dairy cheese and the less traditional soy cheese or cheese-free pizza.  There are many options available in the health food section of many supermarkets if you love the taste of pizza but prefer to avoid the trans-fats and other unsavory ingredients in other frozen vegetarian pizza brands.

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Have you ever had a piece of pizza so delicious that you wondered what went into making it?  There are many elements that go into making a good pizza—the cheese, the sauce, the dough—and any one of them can play an important part in the pizza’s overall taste.  A good pizza dough recipe is the secret of any delicious pizza.

A Recipe For Pizza Dough

To make good pizza dough, any recipe will require you to have a few basic ingredients.  These ingredients include: two tablespoons of honey, one-fourth cup of olive oil, one-half teaspoon of salt, two tablespoons of yeast, three and one-half cups of flour, and one cup of warm water (the water should be between 95 and 115 degrees Fahrenheit).

There are three ways to mix pizza dough in this recipe: using a bread machine, using a food processor, and by hand.  If you choose to use a bread machine to mix the pizza dough, then all you have to do is select the “dough only” setting, throw in all the ingredients, and push start.  That’s all there is to it!  If you don’t have a bread machine, then there are a few more steps involved in mixing the pizza dough.

If you mix the pizza dough ingredients in a food processor, you will first need to pour warm water into the food processor.  Then add salt and honey, and mix for about twenty seconds on low using the dough blade.  Next add olive oil and flour, and mix on high for about two minutes.  The dough should begin to ball up, but if it does not, then add flour or water in small increments as needed.  Finally, knead the dough for a minute and let it rise in a dry place for forty-five minutes; knead it again and let it rise for another hour and a half.

Mixing the pizza dough by hand involves the same steps, except you will use a spoon to mix the ingredients in a bowl.  After that, you will follow the same procedures for kneading and rising. When the dough has fully risen, you can roll out the dough and begin to add the sauce, cheese, and toppings.

Save It For Later

This pizza dough recipe allows the chef of having the option to refrigerate or freeze the dough.  Although the dough can only be stored for about a day, making pizza dough in advance can save lots of time when making pizza.  Make sure that you completely thaw the dough before using it if you decide to store it in the freezer or refrigerator!

Bon Appetit!

A good recipe for pizza dough can make the difference in any pizza.  After you make the dough, you can customize your pizza with cheese and toppings, but it is the soft, chewy dough that will make all the difference!

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(NC)-Here’s a pizza that is fashioned after a restaurant cheeseburger – it has an easy quick bread crust and all the toppings your kids love. For more delicious recipes, visit us at www.robinhood.ca.

Crust:

2 cups Robin Hood All Purpose Flour 500 mL

4 tsp baking powder 20 mL

1 tsp salt 5 mL

1/2 cup Crisco All Vegetable Shortening 125 mL

1 cup milk 250 mL

Toppings:

2/3 cup ketchup 150 mL

1/4 cup mustard 50 mL

48 Bick’s Yum Yum Pickle Slices 48

1 cup cooked, ground beef 250 mL

1 1/3 cups shredded cheddar cheese 325 mL

Preheat oven to 425�F (220�C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.

Crust:

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in large bowl. Cut in Crisco Shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add milk, stirring with fork until rough dough forms. Turn out onto lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, about 30 seconds. Divide dough into 4 pieces. Roll each piece of dough to 8″(20cm) circle. Place on prepared baking sheets (2 per sheet).

Assembly:

Top each pizza in the following order: Spread each pizza with 2 tbsp (30mL) ketchup, cover with 1 tsp (5mL) mustard, 9 Yum Yum pickles, 1/4 cup (50mL) ground beef, drizzle with ketchup and mustard (to taste), cover with 3 more Bick’s Yum Yum Pickles and cover with 1/3 cup (75mL) cheddar cheese.

Bake in preheated oven 12 – 15 minutes, until cheese is melted and crust is golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool, about 5 minutes prior to eating. Be careful, toppings get very hot.

Yield: 4 pizzas

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Baking Time: 15 minutes

Credit: www.newscanada.com

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