Pizza on Half the Dough
Mar. 2nd, 2022 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've made calzone at home twice now using pre-made pizza dough from the grocery store. Both times I used half the 1-lb package of dough. I'm glad I did because that turned out to be the right amount!
With calzone #1 I used the other half of the dough to make a bunch of garlic knots. With calzone #2, which I posted about last night, I used the other half of the dough to make a pizza for Hawk.
The idea seemed so obvious once it occurred to me: if a half pound of dough works great for a calzone, it'd work great for a individual pizza. Yet it was a revelation because every time in the past I'd made a pizza from store-bought dough I used most or all of the 1-lb ball to make the pizza crust.
Indeed an 8-oz. portion of dough made a nicely sized individual pizza. Hawk ate most of this and left a slice for me.
The pizza shown here is sauce-less. Hawk doesn't care much for tomato sauce. I brushed olive oil on the rolled out dough, covered it with cheese, then topped it with a generous spread of sliced red onion. The yellow color you see on the cheese is from Hawk sprinkling on turmeric. Indian style pizza? Not exactly my thing... though, yes, I've tried it. Both in my own kitchen as well as at Indian pizzerias. But that's the great thing about individual sized pizza. You get your favorite toppings even if nobody else agrees!
With calzone #1 I used the other half of the dough to make a bunch of garlic knots. With calzone #2, which I posted about last night, I used the other half of the dough to make a pizza for Hawk.
The idea seemed so obvious once it occurred to me: if a half pound of dough works great for a calzone, it'd work great for a individual pizza. Yet it was a revelation because every time in the past I'd made a pizza from store-bought dough I used most or all of the 1-lb ball to make the pizza crust.
Indeed an 8-oz. portion of dough made a nicely sized individual pizza. Hawk ate most of this and left a slice for me.
The pizza shown here is sauce-less. Hawk doesn't care much for tomato sauce. I brushed olive oil on the rolled out dough, covered it with cheese, then topped it with a generous spread of sliced red onion. The yellow color you see on the cheese is from Hawk sprinkling on turmeric. Indian style pizza? Not exactly my thing... though, yes, I've tried it. Both in my own kitchen as well as at Indian pizzerias. But that's the great thing about individual sized pizza. You get your favorite toppings even if nobody else agrees!
