Complete Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe

Tailored from my common pizza dough recipe, this entire wheat pizza dough comes along with 6 easy elements. It’s not as mild and chewy as conventional pizza crust, nevertheless it’s splendidly tender with a definite healthful hearty taste. This recipe is ideal for yeast rookies who get pleasure from baking with entire wheat flour. Use your favourite toppings or strive my roasted vegetable entire wheat pizza.

Complete wheat pizza crust will get a nasty fame as a result of as a rule, it’s dense, bland, and crumbly. The fact is that entire wheat yeasted dough simply can’t rise to the identical degree as white flour dough– actually! However again in 2014, I labored to develop a 100% entire wheat pizza dough that not solely rises splendidly, it’s tender with nice taste too. If you happen to favor the hearty goodness of entire wheat flour, you’ll actually get pleasure from this pizza dough.

Complete Wheat Pizza Dough Particulars

• The way it compares to common pizza crust: Take pleasure in a tender, but hearty base to your favourite pizza toppings. The crust will not be almost as chewy as pizza crust made with all white flour. Nevertheless, what it lacks in chew, it makes up for in taste.
• Taste: When baking yeasted entire wheat dough akin to these entire wheat dinner rolls, I like utilizing honey because the sugar element. This crust has a contact of honey, sufficient salt, 100% entire wheat flour, plus you may add garlic and/or your favourite dried herbs akin to basil, oregano, and thyme. (Or an Italian seasoning combine.)
• Ease: This recipe is for bread rookies. Making do-it-yourself pizza dough can actually be an artwork– tossing the dough within the air, shaping, prolonged rise occasions, and so forth– and it’s at all times definitely worth the effort! However for the on a regular basis, I like turning to simplified recipes like right this moment’s or my common pizza crust. There’s simply 1 rise, somewhat little bit of kneading and shaping, and then you definitely’re prepared to assemble your toppings and bake.
• Time: Put aside slightly below 3 hours for this do-it-yourself dough and understand that more often than not is arms off because the dough rises.

You’ll discover that many yeasted dough recipes use related elements– yeast, liquid, flour, salt, and typically somewhat sugar. There will be additions akin to eggs, butter, oil, and flavorings, however for entire wheat pizza dough, it’s finest to maintain it easy. Pizza dough is what’s often called a “lean dough” as a result of in contrast to cinnamon rolls and doughnuts, it’s not wealthy with fats. I do, nonetheless, like so as to add somewhat olive oil for taste and softness.

Primary Components for Your Complete Wheat Pizza Dough

Right here’s a fast breakdown of the 6 elements you want, plus a pair extras. The total printable recipe is beneath and a brand new video tutorial is coming quickly!

1. Water: Complete wheat flour accommodates unrefined grains like germ and bran– and each take in plenty of liquid. (And for this reason many entire wheat breads can style dry.) To keep away from a crumbly dry crust, be sure to use sufficient water. I examined this pizza dough recipe with various quantities of water and 1 and 1/2 cups (360ml) is ideal to hydrate the entire wheat flour. Use heat water to chop down on rise time, about 100-110°F (38-43°C).
2. Yeast: You should utilize both prompt (fast rise) or energetic dry yeast on this dough. I often use Platinum Yeast by Pink Star, which is an prompt yeast. As a result of yeast has to work tougher to make entire wheat flour rise, we’ll use barely extra yeast on this dough in comparison with my common pizza dough recipe. You want 1 Tablespoon (8.5g).
3. Honey: Yeast feeds on sugar so to ensure that this dough to rise correctly, you want somewhat sugar within the dough. 1 Tablespoon of honey additionally provides taste and tenderizes the dough. If wanted, you should utilize common white granulated sugar as a substitute.
4. Complete Wheat Flour: For 100% entire wheat pizza crust, use all entire wheat flour as instructed within the recipe beneath. For lighter entire grain taste, be happy to switch a number of the entire wheat flour with an equal quantity of bread flour or all-purpose flour.
5. Oil: Further virgin olive oil provides great taste to the dough. Don’t neglect to brush the dough with olive oil earlier than including the toppings, which prevents the crust from tasting soggy.
6. Salt: Salt provides essential taste.
7. Extras: Cornmeal isn’t within the dough, nevertheless it’s used to mud the pizza pan. Cornmeal provides the pizza crust somewhat further taste and crisp. Most supply pizzas you get pleasure from have cornmeal on the underside crust! And be happy so as to add some dried herbs to the dough itself or sprinkle on the dough earlier than including the toppings. You would additionally add garlic or garlic powder in or on prime of the dough. See recipe notes beneath for particulars.

Step-by-Step Photographs: Easy methods to Make Complete Wheat Pizza Dough

Listed here are photographs displaying a number of the course of so you may really feel assured when it’s your flip to strive the recipe.

Use a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment or combine the dough collectively by hand with a rubber spatula or wood spoon. Proper out of the blending bowl, the dough is barely sticky and cheesy. Place it on a calmly floured work floor (beneath, left) after which knead the dough by hand* till it’s easy, elastic, and bounces again once you poke it with a finger (beneath, proper).

*As detailed within the recipe, you may knead the dough together with your mixer on low pace as a substitute.

Let the dough rise in a calmly greased bowl till doubled in dimension, about 2 hours.

After the dough rises, punch it all the way down to launch the air and lower the dough in half. Freeze the 2nd half of dough or make 2 pizzas.

Utilizing calmly floured arms or rolling pin, gently flatten the dough right into a disc. Place on a greased pizza pan sprinkled calmly with cornmeal and, utilizing calmly floured arms, stretch and flatten the disc right into a 12-inch circle and raise/pinch a lip across the edges. If you happen to’re searching for a pizza pan, I exploit and love (affiliate hyperlinks) this one and this one. If you happen to don’t have a pizza pan, use a big baking sheet.

Brush the formed dough with olive oil and be happy so as to add a sprinkle of your favourite dried herbs and/or chopped garlic earlier than including your required pizza toppings.

Toppings & Different Makes use of for this Dough

You should utilize any pizza toppings you want like plain cheese pizza, pepperoni, peppers, onions, cooked sausage, and so forth. Pictured above is margherita pizza fashion with 1 clove chopped garlic, 1/3 cup (42g) of pizza sauce (do-it-yourself or store-bought), 6-8 ounces shredded and/or thinly sliced contemporary mozzarella cheese (I used a mix totaling 7 ounces), 1 sliced plum tomato, and a sprinkle of freshly floor black pepper and Italian seasoning combine. When the pizza got here out of the oven, I added a handful of chopped contemporary basil.

Roasted vegetable entire wheat pizza is one other favourite on this entire wheat pizza crust.

Freezing Complete Wheat Pizza Dough

This recipe yields slightly below 2 lbs of dough, which is sufficient for 2 12-inch pizzas. After the pizza dough rises and also you divide the dough in half (step 5), you may freeze one of many balls of dough to make pizza at a later time. Or you may merely freeze each balls of dough individually. Evenly coat all sides of the dough ball(s) with nonstick spray or olive oil. Place the dough ball(s) into particular person zipped-top bag(s) and seal tightly, squeezing out all of the air. Freeze for as much as 3 months. To thaw, place the frozen pizza dough within the fridge for about 8 hours or in a single day. When able to make pizza, take away the dough from the fridge and permit to relaxation for half-hour on the counter. Proceed with step 5 within the recipe beneath.

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