Homemade Pizza
This morning we woke up with nothing to do so Winston and I agreed to make pizza. While I cooked breakfast Winston worked on the sourdough starter (water and flour). Then we headed off to the Farmer's Market to pick up Penelope's basket, pepperoni, and vegetables for the pizzas. Winston got broccoli, he likes how the vegetable looks but doesn't eat it, tomato, zucchini and grapes. I got fava beans for my pizza however, Penelope ate them all -I am surprise she liked them.
Although we used a very simple recipe the crust was fantastic.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups sourdough starter (1 c flour and 1 c warm water. If you want, you can add a little yeast to "boost" it. )
3 olive oil
salt
1 1/2 cups flour - plus a little more or less to adjust consistency
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 500°F. Mix the sourdough starter, salt and flour with 1 tbsp of olive oil until it forms a ball. sald and
2. Allow dough to rest for 30 minutes and roll out mixture.
3. Pre-bake the crust for about 7 minutes, then remove from oven and brush the top of crusts with olive oil before adding your toppings. Cook until browned and cheese is melted.
I blanched the broccoli and fava beans before adding them to the pizzas.