Elaine’s Made-from-SCRATCH Rising Crust Pizza Recipe
Prep 20 bake 60 serves 8
A delicious yeast-raised crust, and hearty toppings make this a pizza with pizzazz!
Ingredients
- For Pizza Dough:
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup warm water (for yeast)
- 1 tsp raw sugar (for yeast)
- 1 pkg traditional Bakersâ yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 2 tbsp parsley
- 4 tbsp melted creamery butter with extra for coating crust edges
- The Fixinâs:
- Diced tomato
- Pizza sauce (canned is fine)
- Sliced shallots (about 7)
- Red, green, yellow & orange sweet bell peppers, diced
- Black olives
- Green olives
- Grated carrot
- Old cheddar cheese
- Medium cheddar cheese
- 1 medium sized zucchini squash
- pepperoni, about 4 sticks, chopped coarsely
- polish sausage, sliced
- 6 â8 slices crisp bacon, torn to small pieces
- 4 Velveeta cheese slices, for outer crust rim
- coarse salt
Directions
- Prepare the yeast in the warm water and sugar
- Let work
- Make the pizza dough:
- Mix all dry ingredients together
- Add yeast
- Add melted butter
- Knead about 5 minutes, gently
- Let dough rest 5 minutes
- Form the base crust:
- Roll the dough to size preferred, or work by hand, or air-toss
- Preheat oven to 375*F
- The âbuilding blocksâ:
- Liberally coat with pizza sauce, leaving one inch blank on outside edges
- Form a âlipâ of dough on all sides
- Break apart the Velveeta cheese slices
- Place on outer edge of dough all the way around
- Roll edges in to form a neat rim.
- Coat rim with butter on edges to seal
- Add remaining ingredients listed in whatever order you prefer, but save cheeses to last
- After adding the cheeses as illustrated, sprinkle with coarse salt
- Bake until the crust is firm, golden, and the cheese is well melted
- Let the pizza rest about 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
- ENJOY! :+D
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Serving | %DV |
|---|---|
| Serving Size 169g | |
| Recipe makes 8 servings | |
| Calories 474 | |
| Calories from Fat 311 | 66% |
| Total Fat 34.59g | 43% |
| Saturated Fat 11.65g | 47% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 58mg | 19% |
| Sodium 1084mg | 45% |
| Potassium 351mg | 10% |
| Total Carbs 25.96g | 7% |
| Dietary Fiber 4.7g | 16% |
| Sugars 1.56g | 1% |
| Protein 15.77g | 25% |
