We loooove pizza in our house. Who doesn’t!? We probably do pizza about once a week. Sure, we love to treat ourselves with some of the local pizza joints or even a frozen pizza in a pinch, but it’s just flat out hard to beat the flavor, nourishment, and fun making it at home. Especially when you can add all of your favorite toppings (goat cheese, olives, & roasted peppers), and throw it together relatively quick and easy with this simple wholegrain pizza crust recipe. BONUS: you can make about four times the pizza for the cost you would pay for takeout, and the flavor just does not compare! Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients (makes about two, 16 inch pizzas)
- 1 package of active dry yeast (instant yeast works too!)
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tsp raw honey, Firefly Raw Honey (or 1 tsp of sugar)
- 1 cup Firefly Organic Spelt, Soft Red, or Hard Red Whole Flour
- 1.5 cup bread flour (such KA, King Arthur)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
FYI: We love using Firefly Organic Spelt mixed with KA Bread Flour; however, Firefly Organic Soft Red Wheat Flour and Firefly Organic Hard Red Wheat Flour work equally well.
-Prep/Cook Time-
15 min. prep
25 min. bake
-Cook Type-
Mix & Bake
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Dissolve 1 package of yeast, 1 teaspoon of raw honey, in 1 cup of warm water. Let stand for 5-10 minutes.
- Stir into yeast, honey, water mixture flour, olive oil, and salt. Stir until smooth and fairly even. Let rest for 5 minutes.
- Dough should be fairly wet. Coat your hands with flour and divide dough into two balls for two pizzas.
- Use your hands to toss and spread out dough across a greased cookie sheet or pizza pan. If the dough breaks, no worries – just pinch and seal it back together. Wet dough is your friend. You can also dust the pan with cornmeal if you desire.
- Add your toppings!
- Bake in the oven for about 20-25 minutes. This will depend a bit on the thickness of your crust and toppings.
- ENJOY!
For some family members that struggle with heart burn, we stopped putting down a layer of red, tomato-based pizza sauce. Instead, we put a light layer of mozzarella (no sauce) then all the toppings (peppers, onions, olives, mushrooms, etc. ), and finally, a little more mozzarella. Now, everyone prefers pizza without the red sauce. It turns out great and nobody gets the heartburn! Finally, if you haven’t tried goat cheese on your pizza – DO IT! It brings your ‘home gourmet game’ up a notch. 
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