Pizza Dough

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When you’re told there’s no gluten any more within your diet, or you’ve made the conscious decision to no longer eat gluten…there’s a sudden realization of no more pizza. Pizza! Oh my goodness, very few of us can do life without pizza. There’s something that’s just so incredible and comforting about this Italian pie loaded with veggies, meats and cheeses. You can say no to gluten…but pizza?!? Really?!?

For every man, woman and child in North America, over 23 pounds of pizza is consumed yearly. That’s a lot of pizza. Developing a gluten-free pizza crust to live up to this demand, we’ve designed a pizza crust just for you! It can be made thinner or thicker. Rolled to whatever type of pizza crust you prefer! It’s firm on the outside to hold up it’s ingredients, yet soft when you take a bite. It’s simple ingredients you most likely have already in your kitchen and takes very little time to make up!

We love the idea of individual pizza’s and tend to stick with smaller crusts; but you can definitely roll a larger pizza pie.

As with most gluten-free dough, we will emphasize again it may look sticky. This is ok! Don’t forget to flour your surface and incorporate more flour as needed when rolling out your dough. Hint- It also helps to flour the rolling pin!

Before building your pizza with its toppings, fold the edges in and press with the rest of the shell again to make a thicker crust edge. If you desire a thicker pizza, we suggest to pre-bake the shell for approximately 3-5 minutes before loading on toppings and baking again.

We’re busy families and are certain that you might be too – this recipe for pizza crust is perfect to freeze. Simply roll out, par bake them for 3-5 minutes and freeze. It’s the perfect option for a quick meal. Pull out a frozen crust, top it and bake!

That’s it! Homemade pizza is literally that easy! Never doubt the cross-contamination factors or gluten in your pizza again. Enjoy every comforting bite.

Pizza Dough
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Pizza Dough

Recipe by cutcookingCourse: MainCuisine: ItalianDifficulty: Easy
Servings

2

pizzas
Prep time

30

minutes
Cooking time

15

minutes

Our pizza crust tastes exactly as you would expect it’s gluten-full predecessor does. Gluten-free in comparison, it’s full of flavour, strong enough to hold it’s toppings and soft enough to sink your teeth into. The perfect texture, it can be rolled thin or thick.

Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 cup water

  • 2 1/2 tsp instant quick rise yeast

  • 3 tbsp sugar

  • 3 1/4 cups (535g) CUT flour

  • 1/4 cup psyllium husk

  • 2 tsp baking powder

  • 1 tsp salt

  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar

  • 1 egg (optional*, you can remove this if needed)

  • 1 tbsp olive oil + additional for brushing crust lightly before baking

Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 500°F
  • Measure water in medium bowl and heat to 46 C.
  • Combine sugar and yeast with heated water and stir. Sugar will dissolve and yeast will begin to bloom.  Wait approximately 5-10 minutes for it to fully bloom. 

  • While yeast blooming, combine CUT Flour and all the other ingredients in separate large bowl.
  • Add bloomed yeast to all other ingredients and mix by hand using spatula or wooden spoon. Don’t over stir – just ensure everything is combined.
  • Let dough rest uncovered for approximately 10-15 minutes.
  • Invert dough from bowl on CUT floured surface and knead into workable dough by incorporating a bit of flour until dough is not sticky.
  • Once mixed, divide into balls of dough depending no how many shells, size and thickness desired.
  • Either roll or press out dough on floured surface to desired thickness and size.
  • Transfer to greased baking pan and fold edges of dough in to make crust, press edges together with rest of pizza shell.
  • Brush lightly with additional olive oil.
  • **Add pizza sauce and toppings.
  • Bake until cheese is well melted, bubbly and turning golden. Approximately 12-15 minutes. **
  • Turn oven to low broil if more of a crusty cheese if desired. Watch carefully if you are using this setting as pizza’s will only need a few minutes at the end.
  • “You can’t make everyone happy, you aren’t pizza”…but YOU CAN MAKE PIZZA! Stacey and Meg

    **If using a thicker crust, pre-bake crusts approximately 3-5 min before adding toppings.