5 Minute Bread Pizza

Description

My son recently showed me a recipe for artisan bread that is incredibly tasty and easy to make. You can find the recipe at http://shoottocook.com/recipes/baking/artisan-bread-in-five-minutes/ . The name is artisan bread in “five minutes” and you really need to try it, it’s great.

Using the dough i prepared from that recipe, i made my pizza crust and it turned out fantastic! This is also a great way to experiment, use different ingredients and adapt the pizza to your own taste.

Ingredients

• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Black Olives
• White Onion
• Red Bell Pepper
• Pepperoni
• Portabella Mushrooms
• Mozzarella Cheese
• Pizza Sauce

Instructions

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2. Cover the top of your pizza stone or, if you dont have one, the inside of a cookie sheet with a good dusting of flour
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4. Pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees f
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6. Pour 3 tablespoons of evoo into a small bowl
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8. Cut out a chunk of your 5-minute bread dough, big enough to be the size somewhere in between a baseball and a softball
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10. With your fingers flatten the dough to fit on top of your pizza stone or cookie sheet
11. From this point on, the crust will remain on the stone or cookie sheet until the pizza is done
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13. With a pastry brush, cover the top of the flattened dough with a thin layer of the olive oil
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15. Turn the dough over and brush the other side with olive oil
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17. Partially bake the dough for about 7 minutes and take it out of the oven
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19. Using a large spoon or a ladle, spread the pizza sauce on top of the partially-baked crust and cover it as evenly as possible to within one inch of the edges
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21. Distribute the rest of the ingredients all over the top of the pizza sauce
22. Be creative, my grandchildren like it when i make smiling faces with the pepperoni, black olives and the peppers
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24. Cover the top of the pizza completely with the mozzarella all the way to the edge
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26. Place the pizza stone or cookie sheet in the 425 degree oven and bake for approximately 20 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly and the edges of the crust have turned a dark, golden brown
27. If the edges are very light, this may mean that the center of the crust is still raw
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29. Take the pizza out of the oven and place it on a fire-resistant surface
30. Let it rest for approximately 10 minutes, slice and enjoy!