As much as I loath myself for saying this, as just going to say it anyway. I have never had much luck making pizza dough on my kitchen aid. I know, I know, I know. It’s supposed to kneed bread and whatever, but for me, it just never worked. Even before I had a thermomix, and had a kitchen aid only, I used my regular food processor to make pizza dough. A food processor while the kitchen aid sat on the counter not doing pizza dough!
To be fair, I have to say am sure it’s me, not the kitchen aid. I mean come on, everyone makes pizza dough on their kitchen aid, but I just can’t make decent pizza dough out of that beautiful thing.
Kitchen aid, am sure its me not you. Don’t take it too personal.
This is where my thermomix comes to rescue. Basically when I want to make pizza, I make the dough before going to work, let it rise peacefully till I come back in the afternoon, and then i come home and do my pizza magic.
As a person who always bakes her pizza from scratch, having a thermomix has made my life much easier (ok, not my life, just the kitchen side of my kitchen). I can easily make my pizza dough in less than 5 minutes, let it rise, and then when am ready to make my pizza, I make the tomato sauce in the thermomix which will take almost 5 minutes!
Although am far, far from being a vegetarian, I am not really a big fan of meat on my pizza. I also have a lot of reservations towards the safety of lunch meat so I skip these as well (it’s OK if you like them, but lunch meat is just not for me). So we usually just have a regular vegetarian pizza topped with lots of mushroom, olives and of course cheese. Lots and lots of cheese. This is the only pizza I like. This is the only pizza I know
- Self rising flour
- Strong bread flour
- Chickpea flour
- Organic oat flour
Logic would state that I use bread flour, but it was far inside the pantry that I had to grab a chair to grab it, since its early morning, I decided to just grab the easiest one, which in this case was oat flour. I have bought this oat a few weeks back but I haven’t ventured into using it in my baked goods cause I worried as to how the low gluten in oat flour would react in baking. But that’s me. A worr-ier..
So long story short, I added the oat flour. To my surprise the dough raised regularly as it would do with a regular 100% all purpose flour. Once baked, the pizza had a bit of nutty after taste, and it was flakier than usual. I always like my pizza thin and crispy.
Below is the recipe for thermomix pizza dough, let me know how it goes for you.
Yield: Makes two large pizzas
Slightly adapted from Super Kitchen Machine
Ingredients
- 380 g all purpose flour
- 120 g oat flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 240 g water
- 100 g extra virgin olive oil
- 1 sachet (10 g) instant yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
Steps
- In a separate bowl, combine the all purpose flour, oat flour, and salt.
- Add the water and oil to the thermomix bowl, mix for 20 seconds/37C/speed 1.
- Add the instant yeast and sugar, mix for 5 seconds/37C/speed 3.
- Gradually add the flour mixture, mix for 15 seconds/speed 8.
- Knead dough for 2 minutes on dough mode.
- Slightly grease a glass bowl with olive oil. Remove dough, shape into a ball, and place into the greased bowl. Cover with cling film and place a wet cloth on top of the bowl (this is a tip I learned from my mom which presumably helps the dough rise, it has something to do with moisture I suppose)
- Place the bowl in a warm place. Let it rest until it doubles in size (one to two hours).
- Once the dough has doubled in size, divide into two equal balls, allow to rest for 10 minutes before shaping. You can use a rolling pin, or just your hands. The dough is quite stretchy.
- Bake using toppings of choice for 25 minutes in a preheated oven at 220C / 425F.
For my pizza, i used tomato sauce base, topped it with sliced onions, black olives, mushrooms, green and yellow pepper. sprinkled mozarella cheese and topped it with fresh thyme and basil.
Am having trouble not eating it off my screen now.
How do you make your pizza dough? What ingredients do you like on top of your pizza? Do you like your pizza vegetarian? Or do you add exotic toppings like figs and walnuts to your pizza?
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