Garlic-Flavored Pizza Dough
Speed - 95%
Simplicity - 98%
Tastiness - 100%
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Delicious!
This pizza dough is superb! Perfectly chewy yet crisp on the edges. The hint of garlic and butter made all the difference.
Ingredients
For the Garlic-Flavored Pizza Dough
- 1 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 Cup Semolina Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
- 4 Cloves garlic grated
- 2 Teaspoons Active Dry Yeast
- 2 Teaspoons Sugar
- 3/4 Cup Warm Water
- 1/4 Cup Melted Butter
For the Toppings
- 1/2 Cup Mozzarella Cheese shredded
- 1/2 Cup Cheddar Cheese shredded
- 1 Cup Pizza Sauce
- 1/2 Cup Bacon Bits
Instructions
- Combine the yeast, sugar, and warm water. Leave to bloom for 10 minutes.
- Whisk together the all-purpose flour, semolina flour, salt, and garlic powder.
- Stir in the grated garlic.
- Add the active yeast mixture and butter into the dry ingredients.
- Knead the dough for 5-7 minutes on a lightly-floured counter.
- Leave the dough to rise for an hour in a lightly oiled bowl.
- Stretch the dough into a crust.
- Top your pizza.
- Bake for 15 minutes at 425F.
There are indeed a couple of ways to make a good plain bread interesting. Adding cheese, butter, or garlic would definitely be good choices. Better yet, add them all together. That's basically what this pizza dough's all about – a good chewy, puffed up bread, fresh smell of yeast, richness of butter, melted gooey cheese, and lots of garlic. . . not too mention, we're topping this one with loads of bacon bits too! Simple, but definitely comfort food.
Okay, we definitely need some yeast to make this pizza base all puffy and smelling like freshly-baked bread.
To give this dough more chew, which most of us prefer, we'll be using all-purpose flour and semolina flour in equal parts. Semolina just gives any dough that extra pull, resulting to better texture. We'll be adding some granulated garlic too to further reinforce that garlic flavor.
Can't get too much of garlic? We'll grate a couple of fresh cloves directly over this bowl. Using a zester would make the garlic really fine so it'll cook perfectly in time as the dough bakes.
The wet ingredients go in next – the active yeast mixture and melted butter in place of a typical olive oil. The butter will just give this dough a totally rich flavor, we all know that.
Knead the dough for a good 5 to 7 minutes on a lightly floured work surface. Because of the butter, this dough will really be so smooth to work with.
Set the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and give about an hour to rise, covered with a kitchen towel, in a warm place.
I told you this dough was exceptionally smooth!
Thanks to the semolina, pulling, stretching, and even tossing this dough can be easily done even by beginners.
Mozzarella and bacon on a garlic-butter base? I'm definitely taking more than a slice.
Ingredients
For the Garlic-Flavored Pizza Dough
- 1 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 Cup Semolina Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
- 4 Cloves garlic grated
- 2 Teaspoons Active Dry Yeast
- 2 Teaspoons Sugar
- 3/4 Cup Warm Water
- 1/4 Cup Melted Butter
For the Toppings
- 1/2 Cup Mozzarella Cheese shredded
- 1/2 Cup Cheddar Cheese shredded
- 1 Cup Pizza Sauce
- 1/2 Cup Bacon Bits
Instructions
- Combine the yeast, sugar, and warm water. Leave to bloom for 10 minutes.
- Whisk together the all-purpose flour, semolina flour, salt, and garlic powder.
- Stir in the grated garlic.
- Add the active yeast mixture and butter into the dry ingredients.
- Knead the dough for 5-7 minutes on a lightly-floured counter.
- Leave the dough to rise for an hour in a lightly oiled bowl.
- Stretch the dough into a crust.
- Top your pizza.
- Bake for 15 minutes at 425F.
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