Multigrain Pizza Crust Recipe

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups bread flour or 1 1/4 cups unbleached flour, plus
• 2 tablespoons bread flour or 2 tablespoons unbleached flour, divided
• 2 tablespoons whole grain cornmeal
• 2 tablespoons wheat bran
• 2 tablespoons quick-cooking oats
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fast rising yeast
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup water or 1/2 cup skim milk, plus
• 2 tablespoons water or 2 tablespoons skim milk, divided
• 1 teaspoon honey

Recipe

• 1 place 3/4 c of the flour and all of the cornmeal, wheat bran, oats, yeast, and salt in a large bowl, and stir to mix well.
• 2 place the water or milk and the honey in a small saucepan, and heat until very warm (125 f to 130 f.) add the water mixture to the flour mixture and stir for 1 minute.
• 3 stir in enough of the remaining flour, 2 tablespoons at a time, to form a soft dough.
• 4 sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the remaining flour over a flat surface and turn the dough onto the surface.
• 5 knead the dough for 5 minutes, gradually adding just enough of the remaining flour to form a smooth, satiny ball.
• 6 (be careful not to make the dough too stiff, or it will be hard to roll out.) coat a large bowl with nonstick cooking spray and place the ball of dough in the bowl.
• 7 cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and let rise in a warm place for about 35 minutes, or until doubled in size.
• 8 when the dough has risen, punch it down, shape it into a ball, and turn it onto a floured surface.
• 9 the dough is now ready for shaping, topping, and baking.
• 10 to make pizza dough in bread machine: place all of the dough ingredients except for 2 tablespoons of the bread flour in the machine's bread pan.
• 11 (do not heat the water or milk.) turn the machine on to the"rise","dough", or"manual" setting so that the machine will mix, knead, and let the dough rise once.
• 12 check the dough about 5 minutes after the machine has started.
• 13 if the dough seems too sticky, add more of the remaining flour, a tablespoon at a time.
• 14 when the dough is ready, remove it from the machine and proceed to shape, top, and bake it as directed in the recipe.