I felt like pizza.
I made pizza.
It was quite delicious.
Mushroom & Onion Pizza
Put the flour in a food processor. Add the remaining ingredients. Pulse/process until it all comes together. You actually don't need a food processor, this is just how I almost always make it. I've even forgotten to switch to the dough blade...and it works fine. You can always use a stand mixer or even do it by hand.
Cast of Characters
This is pretty much how you want the dough to look after processing. You do NOT want a dry mixture.
Put some olive oil in a bowl, oil your hands, and form dough into a ball. Dough should be quite soft. Place dough in bowl, turning over so all is covered with a light coating of the olive oil. Cover with plastic wrap; let rise until doubled in size.
While dough is rising, get the desired toppings cut up and ready.
Remove dough from bowl and place on a piece of parchment paper (you don't need the paper, but it sure saves on cleanup...and from sticking to a pan). Drizzle with olive oil.
I put this seasoned salt on before the toppings...just forgot to take a photo at the correct time!!
I was eating this myself & I didn't want sauce on it...so I didn't put any on!
I started with the mozzarella cheese and then the mushrooms and onions. That's what's nice about making pizza at home, you get what you want! If the hubs would have been here, he would have put sliced green olives (gag...) on his half.
I did top the dough with some of this awesome seasoned salt I found at Costco. (I also felt like sprinkling more over the top right before it went in the oven)
Drizzle with just a little bit more olive oil. Just makes it taste sooo good.
Preheat oven and pizza stone (if using) to 500 degrees F.
Here's its ready for the oven!
Bake 10-12 min. or until cheese is melted and crust is nicely browned.
FORCE yourself to let it cool before cutting. ENJOY!!
Basic Pizza Dough
Makes one 14" pizza
INGREDIENTS:
2 c. flour (I used a combination of all-purpose and bread flour)
2 pkg. Quick Rise yeast OR 2 Tbsp. instant yeast*
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. olive oil
7/8 c. warm water
Sauce of choice (if using)
Desired toppings
*This might sound like a LOT of yeast, but trust me here. It will rise very quickly...and nicely...and form a very soft dough. You can easily use less dough with great result. However, this is sooo good and you can be eating pizza in about 45 minutes after you realize you have a pizza craving!
DIRECTIONS:
Place all ingredients except warm water in bowl of food processor. Pulse several times.
Slowly add the warm water through the feed tube, processing until dough forms a loose ball. If you feel it's too wet, add flour 1 Tbsp. at a time. (weather can be a big factor if you need more flour)
Place dough in a well oiled bowl, turning dough to get oil on all sides. Cover with plastic wrap that's been sprayed with cooking spray. Let rise until double in bulk.
Preheat oven and pizza stone (if using) to 500 degrees F.
Shred cheese, slice mushrooms & onion...get any other desired toppings ready while dough is rising.
Gently punch down dough; place in the center of a piece of parchment paper. Using oiled fingers/hands, press/pat the dough into desired shape. Drizzle with olive oil, making sure to get the very edges covered.
If using sauce, spread a thin layer on top of dough. Sprinkle on a nice layer of mozzarella cheese; top with remaining toppings of choice (here it's mushrooms and onions).
Drizzle with olive oil. Carefully pick up the parchment paper and place on preheated stone.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until cheese is melted and crust is nicely browned.
TIPS:
I've got a dough-rise mode on my oven so that's how I usually do the rise, but you can turn your oven on to the lowest setting for no more than a minute. This will warm up the oven enough to let the dough rise rather rapidly.
If you don't have a pizza stone, use whatever pizza pan you want. Just make sure to oil if very well so the pizza doesn't stick!! OR...put parchment paper on your pizza pan.
