Pizza recipe. Whole wheat thin crust pizza. Homemade pizza recipe

Pizza recipe. Whole wheat. Thin crust. Perfect pizza base that you are going to love it.

This pizza 🍕 is prepared using 2 cups of 100 % whole wheat and 1 cup of All-purpose flour combined with a Yeast water mixture that is prepared using some sugar, salt, water, and oil mixed and combined well to form a dough. The dough is being kneaded well for few minutes and then being rested for a minimum of 2 hours preferably in a warm damp place allowing the yeast to work well in a suitable atmosphere.

The second step is to flatten the dough and then roll it out or spread it thin, round in shape to form a base for a thin crust pizza.

The third part is the topping of the pizza. This is going to be the fun part of preparing pizzas at home. Different peoples have different choices and of course, their taste buds know what they wanted to have as their favorite toppings along with these amazing thin crust, whole wheat soft pizza base. It becomes so convenient and easy to top it with what we like, say it could be more veggies 🍅 or more non-veggies as per our choices. That way It becomes a healthy choice as well. and all that could be done so easily if we can prepare a perfect pizza base at our homes.

The last part which comes is the baking of the pizza. We need to bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20 to 25 minutes maximum. When the top of it turns golden brown in color we need to stop further baking it and immediately take it out from the oven. Please Note: Baking time also depends on different oven heat capacities and settings as well. So make sure to keep an eye on your pizza while you bake this.

Ingredients required for preparing the thin crust, whole wheat Pizza 🍕

100 % Whole wheat 2 cups
All-purpose flour 1 cup
Sugar 5 teaspoons
Salt 1 teaspoon
Oil 2 tablespoons
Water 1 cup + 1/4 cup (room temperature)
Instant Active Yeast 1/4 teaspoon

Toppings for the pizza

Mariana tomato sauce or any pizza sauce of choice.
Oregano leaves 🍃 dried to sprinkle on the top of the sauce
Mozzarella cheese shredded 2 layers as required
Oven-roasted chicken breast chunks as required
Green bell peppers 🫑 cut into strips some.
Chilli flakes (optional)

Importance of the ingredients used to prepare the pizza base

Whole Wheat flour: adds some fiber and forms a texture once baked.

All-purpose flour: helps form the texture adds taste to the pizza crust.

Salt: strengthens the dough by tightening the gluten structure. Salt also helps regulate the yeast. and also salt along with the sugar balances the taste and flavor of the pizza crust.

Oil: provides softness and helps it cook well. It also helps the kneading process much easier. The dough stretches well when oil is added and becomes nonsticky too.

Water: contains minerals that help feed the yeast. Sufficient water is needed for the fermentation of the dough and for the yeast to work in the process. It helps form the dough. Combines everything well and helps it cook nicer as well. If the water is too less, however, the fermentation rate will be reduced and the dough will not be fermented nicely thus resulting in a hard pizza dough crust.

Yeast: acts as a leavening agent which helps raise the dough thus forming the dough base airy and bubbly kind of bread structure or a pizza crust.

Note: Resting the dough helps the yeast to ferment it thus resulting in rising in volume. Since I am using whole wheat in the recipe the dough would not visually rise much in volume which is different in the case when I used only all-purpose flour in the recipe for preparing pizza crust. This is what I have experienced when using different flours for preparing pizzas at home. Also, this depends on the temperature of the room and the amount of resting time that is being allowed for the dough to help it rise. Hope this helps

Overall, The Flour, Room temperature, and the Resting time of the dough are the factors resulting in the rise of the dough.

Total Cook Time

Mixing and Kneading the dough for 10 minutes
Resting the dough 2 hours minimum
Topping the dough 10 minutes
Bake time 25 minutes max

Total time consumed: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Baking:

Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 22 to 25 minutes or until you see the top turns slightly golden brown in color.

Serving tips:

Slice them and serve hot with some pizza spices on top 🔝

Step by step method along with images shown below to prepare pizza 🍕

Preparing the dough

Take 1 cup of Lukewarm water into a bowl

Add 5 teaspoons of sugar

Add 1 teaspoon of salt

Mix and let the sugar dissolve completely

Add 1/4 teaspoon of Instant Active dry Yeast

Use 2 cups of 100 % Whole wheat

Add into the Yeast water mixture

Then add 1 cup of All-purpose flour into it

Mix using a spoon or a spatula

Add 1/4 cup of water again into the mixture. The water should be room temperature

Pour 1 tablespoon of oil. You may use olive or any vegetable oil

Mix…

Transfer the mixture preferably on the flat surface and then knead it for 3 to 4 minutes until forms a smooth and a soft dough.

Knead to form a smooth and soft dough ball

Knead by pressing and stretching it forward and then to the backward direction

Smooth and soft dough forms

Apply few drops of oil into the bowl

Grease the bowl nicely with the oil

Transfer the dough into the greased bowl

Apply few drops of oil on top of the dough to keep it soft

Cover with food wrap or preferably keep it in an airtight container. Also, you may cover it with a cloth or a towel and place a plate on top of it. The idea is to cover it airtight for a minimum of 2 hours.

Note: If you keeping it for a longer period of time or say using it the other day do refrigerate after 4 to 5 hours.

Resting time of the Dough

Preferably place it in a warmer place. Say like inside an oven to give the dough a damp atmosphere for at least 2 hours. If the temperature of your room is warm then cover and leave it on the countertop of your kitchen.