Pizza! Pizza!

Desiree thought I needed a pizza page. Here it is.
Thanks Desiree for all of your hard work!!!

There are several ways of making pizza for the freezer; I will attempt to cover as many of them as I can remember!

This page includes several pizza doughs ( some tried and true, some as yet untried ), several pizza sauces ( ditto ), and a ssembly / freezing instructions.

Some of the recipes have instructions as well, I decided not to delete those.

Sauces:

Liz D. Pizza Sauce
Desiree's Pizza Sauce

Recipes

Robbyn's Garlic Pizza Crust

Recipe By : Robbyn
Serving Size : 12

2 cups tempid water (90*)
1/2 cup oil
3 cloves crushed garlic
5 1/2 to 6 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons yeast

Dissolve yeast in water and add sugar.. wait a few minutes.. add oil and salt and garlic .. mix in 3 cups flour and whip about 10 min till it leaves the side of the mixer bowl.. add remaining flour w/ dough hook or by hand.. knead till smooth.. allow to rise twice in the bowl.. punch down.. (I rush this a lot) oil baking sheets ..use fingers press out to edges..

Makes 2 pizzas, cookie sheet size, let rise a bit and top.. bake at 425* 20 min..

this is fantastic.. crust smells slightly like garlic bread.. but is not strong.. We usually make one cheese and the other with gr. beef, ham, onion and mushroom. even the kids say it is the best crust so far. This makes 2 cookie sheet sized or 12 after school snack size...I form them in the bottom of a cheapo pie pan, top and bake completely and put them in zip bags.

Note: This is the best ..one of the few recipes that is MINE..lol. This started off as a mistake, turning back and forth in a cook book...lol We make this every friday night and have pizza and movies in the living room..

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Robbyn's Garlic Pizza Crust-ABM

Recipe By : Robbyn
Serving Size : 8

1 1/3 cups tempid water (90*)
1/3 cup oil
2 cloves crushed garlic
4 cups flour
2/3 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/3 tablespoons yeast

Add ingredients to your bread machine in the order directed in your manual. Oil baking sheets ..use fingers press out to edges..

Makes 2 pizzas, cookie sheet size. For baking instructions see Robbyn's Garlic Pizza Crust

NOTES : I converted Robbyn's recipe so that I could use it in my ABM. This version should make 8 mini pizzas. I like to make the minis in a pie plate like Robbyn.

Converted to ABM by: Leora

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Liz D's ABM Pizza Dough

1 1/2 cups water
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tsp dry yeast

Add all ingredients in order given. Use "Dough only" setting. When done, remove dough to lightly floured surface and roll out to desired size and shape. Or freeze in ball wrapped in plastic wrap in freezer bag.

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Liz D's Pizza Dough, by hand

From ABM recipe by Liz D, adapted for hand mixing by Desiree

1 1/2 cups water
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tsp dry yeast

Heat the water to warm. Add yeast and sugar and set aside for 10 minutes, until the yeast bubbles. In a large bowl add yeast mixture, oil, salt and 2 cups of flour. Beat well. Continue adding flour until a soft dough is formed.

Knead 10 minutes, adding flour as necessary. Form into a ball, Put 1 more tsp of oil in a bowl twice the size of the ball. Place the dough in bowl, and turn over, oiling all the surface

Cover with cloth, and set aside in a warm, draft-free place to rise until double, about an hour.

Punch down, knead 10 minutes, and cut in 8 pieces. Let the dough rest for 5 minutes while you assemble the filling ingredients.

Roll into pizza dough. Prebake the crusts 5 minutes, top and freeze OR top and bake completely, then freeze.

Note: I don't have a bread machine, so I adapted it. This dough is very soft, and I have taken to kneading it the first time in the bowl, rather than on the counter. Less mess, and it does work.

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Liz D. Pizza Sauce

1 can tomato puree (no substitutes) -- 10 3/4 oz. size
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon basil
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/8 teaspoon granulated garlic or garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon granulated onion or onion powder
2 teaspoons grated parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt

Blend.

Liz D's Note: Freeze in pizza portion sizes, if desired.

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Desiree's Pizza Sauce

28 ounces canned crushed tomatoes
3 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon basil
2 teaspoons oregano
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon dry minced onion, powdered ( or onion powder )
2 teaspoons olive oil

Crush the garlic and saute in olive oil until clear. Mix garlic with remaining ingredients in a sauce pan. Simmer over low heat for 2 -3 hours (the longer you cook it, the more the flavor develops).

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Freezing/assembling directions

Fully Cooked Pizzas:

This is probably does not deliver the best crust ever, but my DS and DD love them. I use Liz D's Dough, after letting it rise, I divide in 12 parts and roll them out 4 at a time ( because that is what fits in the cookie sheet I use. ) I roll in 6 inch "circles" and place on cornmeal dusted cookie sheets. I bake for 5 - 7 minutes, until the dough is not shiny ( and most of the time they puff up ), but has not browned. I then top with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and pepperoni, and bake for another 7 minutes until the cheese is bubbly. While the first batch is baking I shape the second batch , and by this time I take the first batch out of the oven and bake the second batch while topping the first batch. It takes me about 5 minutes to shape or top the pizzas, so this way I don't waste too much time.

To Freeze: I then allow the pizzas to cool in the rack for 10 - 15 minutes, and cool down the cookie sheets . I then place the pizzas back on the sheets and flash freeze overnight ( I'm too tired by this point.). The next day I bag the pizzas, separating them with wax paper and putting them in a freezer ziploc bag. I tried not using the paper and they stuck together.

To serve, I microwave for 30 seconds, cut in four pieces, and then turn the pieces so the centers are to the edge of the plate and microwave another 30 seconds. DS never eats the crust, so I try to put sauce as close to the edge as possible. The non-sauced part of the crust gets rather dry and brittle by cooking in the microwave.

Partially Cooked Pizzas

Make the dough, let rise, shape. Bake your crusts alone for about 7 minutes or so at 400F . Allow to cool somewhat. Sprinkle half the cheese on, then your sauce ), then the rest of the cheese. Then top with the pepperoni Wrap well with plastic wrap.

To freeze: If you don't have cardboard to freeze on, then you will need to flash freeze on cookie sheets. Liz D uses cardboard pieces, put pizza on, wrap well, put in freezer bag, and pop in freezer

To Serve: Bake the pizza, straight from the freezer, in the oven at 400F until golden.

You could also freeze the blanks after baking and top just before heating/serving.

Freezing the dough

Divide into one pizza portions and put in freezer zip bags. Lable, date and freeze.

Desiree thanks to Liz D' for letting us use her recipes, and for holding Desiree's hand electronically while she was figuring out how to make pizza.

January 3, 2000

Desiree Diverse-Diaz

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