Honey Wheat Pizza Dough

Friday night pizza night is my favorite! Growing up this tradition is what my family always did. We would rent movies, order pop, and pizza from our favorite local shop. After we made our movie selection at First Row Video, we would head home and enjoy the night relaxing and laughing in the presence of each others company.

I still love practicing this tradition 30 years later. Even though some things changed such as the movie is generally a netflix selection. Also, now I’ve added the tradition of making the pizza from scratch vs ordering it as take out.

I love this recipe because it makes two doughs which allows for a back up homemade pizza dough to stuff in the freezer and always have on hand.

This recipe yields: 2 Pizza doughs

Ingredients:

1 cup warm water

1 Tablespoon active dry yeast

1 teaspoon honey

3 3/4 cup all purpose flour

1/4 cup wheat flour

3/4 teaspoon kosher salt

4 Tablespoon of olive oil

Directions:

1. Place the first 3 ingredients in a small vessel. I usually use a small glass measuring pitcher. Let the yeast proof for about 5 minutes.

2. Place the remainder of the ingredients in a stand mixer with dough hook and turn the mix on low speed and mix the flour mixture together.

3. Add yeast mixture and oil to dry ingredients and knead with dough hook for 6-8 minutes and work up to medium speed. Once dough forms a ball, Place the dough on lightly floured surface to knead by hand for 30 seconds.

4. Place the dough ball in a canola sprayed glass bowl to allow to double in size (about 60 to 90 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap.

5. Once the dough has doubled in size place it in the refrigerator to ferment for at least 48 hours.

6. Take bowl with dough out of refrigerator to come to room temperature for at least two hours before baking. Please keep plastic cover over dough.

7. Once the time has elasped, Preheat oven to 500 degrees

8. Roll out into deep dish pan or flat pizza stone.

9. Place the toppings to your liking on the dough and bake the pizza for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and enjoy.