Saturday, April 10, 2010

Easy Peasy Pizza Pie!


There's been a few pizza pies made in my kitchen over the years, but this is by far the best!

I happened upon the crust recipe completely on accident!

One day, while shopping at Walmart, I came across some white flour tortilla mix. I had made corn tortillas but not flour ones yet. So I bought a package, brought it home and made up some tortillas. They turned out pretty thick. We ended up eating them as tostadas...

Then it hit me! These would be pretty good as a pizza crust! And that's just what I did!

Combine two cups of the mix and 1/2 a cup of warm water in your Kitchen Aid, or with a mixer. When it looks like dough, stop! Cover and let sit for about 10 minutes. Next, knead it in the bowl with one hand about 8 times. (You can knead it on the counter but I despise cleaning up the flour mess.)

Take it out of the bowl and pat it inbetween your palms til it's about 8 inches across. Lay it in the middle of your pizza stone and starting in the middle pat it out with your hands til it gets to the edge, then just roll the edge up a bit to give it a ridge so the toppings don't fall off while baking.
Another way is to make them personal size, all you need to do is take two pieces of parchment paper and place a baseball sized piece of dough in between, then stick it in a tortilla press and press down the lever. It will ooz out the edges but that's okay, you want it to do that as it makes the border to keep the toppings in.

Then just add whatever toppings you want. To make it easy I just use spagetti sauce from a jar, sprinkle mozzerella cheese all over, a decent amount of pepperoni, and some sliced olives!

Bake at 400* for about 20 minutes. When it's done, let it stand for about 5 minutes. Last but certainly not least, dig in!!!






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