Sicilian Pizza Bread

This recipe is enough to make two 12” pizzas 

Ingredients: 

1/2 tsp. honey (2.5 ml)

1 1/4 cup warm water (300 ml)

1 tsp. active dry yeast (1/8 oz or 3.5g)

1/2 Tsp salt (8g)

3 cups whole wheat flour (450g)

1 Tsp. olive oil (15 ml)

Dissolve honey on 1 ¼ cups warm water and stir the yeast.

Stir the salt into the flour. Make a well in the center and pour the oil and the yeast mixture into the well. Stir it with the spoon or with your hand until the dough incorporates all the flour. Knead well about 10 minutes. 

Use ¼ cup of water instead of flour. The dough will be soft and sticky. Form the dough into a ball and place smooth side up into a bowl.

Let the dough rise for 1 hour. Divide dough into two balls. Let them rest for 2 minutes.

Stretch the dough on a pan using more water or oil. Pre-bake the crust for 7 minutes at 410F.

Put your favorite sauce and toppings. Finish baking it for additional 12-15 minutes at 400F.

You can also use this crust as a flat bread, just bake it a little bit more to make it crunchy.

Enjoy!

Make Pizza as a Pro

I didn’t post anything for a week already! I’ve been really busy last week. So I need to catch up.

Last week our friend Lena Mutonono invited 7 Grain to do a master class at her church in Lacombe, LA. At the Village Lutheran church we met bunch of very friendly people who were eager to learn how to make pizza as a pro.

It was so much fun!

Lena Brannon shared about the advantages of eating whole grain. 

The participants witnessed the process of making Sicilian pizza from scratch. They saw how grain turned into delicate dough and had hands-on time where they could play with it a little.

And in the end we all shared a delicious meal together and of course everyone took home a pizza crust made by their own hands!

We really enjoyed our time with you guys and hope to come again and teach you how to make homemade pasta!

Pizza's here!

7 Grain’s pizza crusts were always very popular among our friends and customers. Lately we were asked numerous times why don’t we make pizzas. So, we decided why not to try?  We love pizza! It’s tasty, easy to make and can be healthy and nutritious as well, especially if made on wholegrain crust.

So we are proudly present to you the new addition to our menu. Four delicious pizzas:

1)      Roasted Vegetables No Cheese Pizza.  And I need to add no tomato sauce as well, there is pesto instead, which makes it unbelievably good. It has chunks of tomatoes, red bell pepper, baby bella mushrooms, onions and artichokes. Yam-m-m! To be honest that’s my favorite pizza, that’s why I wanted to share it with you guys!

2)      Mushroom and Olives Pizza is another one with pesto instead of tomato sauce. It also has baby bella mushrooms and roasted onions plus black olives. There is cheese on the this pizza, but (surprise!) it’s a fresh goat cheese, which has very different taste from regular cheese. That little touch makes MO Pizza whole new twist.

Next two pizzas are based on a tomato sauce. These are:

3)      Spinach and Feta Pizza. Rich and creamy taste of Feta is balanced with amazingly fresh and light taste of Spinach. Parmesan cheese is sprinkled on the top. Spinach is not what my kids like the most, but they ate the whole thing and asked for more. I admit they are my favorite Guiney pigs I try my recipes on.

4)      Three cheese pizza. Old time kids’ favorite. Fresh diced tomatoes, Feta, Parmesan and Mozzarella give this pizza additional flavor for cheese lovers. You can’t go wrong with it.

All our pizza’s are made on pre-baked 8” crusts, so it makes a perfect lunch or dinner for two. You can keep it in a freezer up to 2 weeks. Bake fresh pizza at 400F for 8-10 minutes. If frozen, bake at 400F for 12-15 minutes.

Enjoy!