Cinnamon and Nutmeg Spiced Pizza Dough
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Fragrant!
The smell of fresh baking yeast plus that sweet fragrance of cinnamon and nutmeg just filled the house with the familiar scent of breakfast. With the mood all set, what better topping than Spam and eggs?
Ingredients
For the Pizza Dough
- 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 2.5 Teaspoons Active Dry Yeast
- 1 Tablespoon Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg
- 3/4 Cup Warm Water
For the Toppings
- 1/2 Tin Spam cut into chunks
- 3 Pieces Eggs scrambled and cooked
- 1 Cup Pizza Sauce
- 1 Cup Mozzarella Cheese
Instructions
- Combine water, yeast, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Set aside for 5-10 minutes.
- Whisk together flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl.
- Add in yeast mixture and olive oil. Stir until dough comes into a ball.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.
- Pu in an oiled bowl, cover, and leave to rise for about an hour.
- Turn the dough onto a floured surface and stretch into shape.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly floured pie pan.
- Top the pizza and bake for 20-25 minutes at 400F.
How about a pizza for brunch? Yes, please! Well, it's gotta be filling enough like lunch and also fragrant, much like breakfast. That shouldn't be too hard to do.
Let's start making our bread. . . pizza dough, I mean. There's got to be yeast in it for it to have that familiar freshly-baked bread scent. Actually, I'm putting the yeast in primarily for that purpose, with its property to make the dough rise only coming in at second.
The yeast has to be activated with some tepid water, and it needs to feed on something like sugar for it to give off that gas which in turn will make the dough light and airy.
Time to spice up the flour. Cinnamon and nutmeg baking in the oven – what could smell more like breakfast?
After about 5-10 minutes, our yeast should have now turned all bubbly. Otherwise, you'll know you did something wrong and will have to start all over again.
Stir this active yeast mixture into the spiced flour mix, working it into a workable ball of dough. Add a bit of olive oil too, to make the dough smooth.
Time for a quick workout. The dough has to be kneaded to develop that gluten, making it elastic. Put some elbow grease in. A good 5-10 minutes of kneading is essential to getting your dough really pliable.
Your dough should now be smooth. Set it on a lightly oiled bowl to rise to twice its volume. This will take about an hour at room temperature.
After the dough has risen, knead it briefly and begin stretching it into a pizza crust. Set it on your pizza pan, forming a distinct mound on the edges to keep all the filling you'll be putting in the center.
Smother that pizza crust with your choice toppings. I wanted this pizza to remind me of breakfast so I built it with some cubes of Spam, mozzarella, and scrambled eggs. The eggs would of course, go in the end, right before serving so they don't overcook in the oven.
Ingredients
For the Pizza Dough
- 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 2.5 Teaspoons Active Dry Yeast
- 1 Tablespoon Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg
- 3/4 Cup Warm Water
For the Toppings
- 1/2 Tin Spam cut into chunks
- 3 Pieces Eggs scrambled and cooked
- 1 Cup Pizza Sauce
- 1 Cup Mozzarella Cheese
Instructions
- Combine water, yeast, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Set aside for 5-10 minutes.
- Whisk together flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl.
- Add in yeast mixture and olive oil. Stir until dough comes into a ball.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.
- Pu in an oiled bowl, cover, and leave to rise for about an hour.
- Turn the dough onto a floured surface and stretch into shape.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly floured pie pan.
- Top the pizza and bake for 20-25 minutes at 400F.
You don't have to stick with baking your pizza on a pan – what about grilling it outside? You can actually “grill it”, or you can stick a couple of wood chunks on your weber grill and get a “wood fired” effect. All you need is a KettlePizza insert.
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