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Pepperoni Pizza

Servings

4

Serving size

1 pizza
COOKING TIME
30 Minutes

This recipe can be multiplied. Leftovers are good cold for breakfast. This recipe is best with Tomato Sauce – from Canned Tomatoes but you can use a quality store bought tomato sauce.

(Note that this recipe is classified as containing both pork and poultry. While this specific recipe calls for turkey pepperoni, classic pepperoni is made with pork. Whichever you choose, make sure it is as low in sodium as possible.)

Pepperoni Pizza

Ingredients

1 cup Water
1 tsp. Active dry yeast
4 tsp.. Honey
2 cup Whole wheat flour
1/2 cup All purpose flour or garbanzo flour
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 cup No salt added tomato sauce
8 ounce Cheese, mozzarella, part skim milk (shredded)
2 ounce Turkey Pepperoni (about 6 slices per pizza)

Instructions

For the Pizza Dough

Place the yeast and honey in a large mixing bowl and pour the heated water over the mixture, stirring until well blended. Let the mixture stand for about 5 - 7 minutes until foamy.

Add the whole wheat flour, all purpose flour and salt and stir with a fork until a coarse dough forms.

Continue to mix by hand until a dough ball forms and all the flour is well blended.

Cover the bowl and place it in a sink with about 4 inches of hot water in the bottom. The heat from the warm water will help the dough rise. The dough will double in size in about 30 - 40 minutes. Punch it a few times with your fingers and let it rise another 30 minutes.

Remove from the bowl and cut the ball into four equal pieces. Cover the dough that you are not going to use immediately in plastic wrap and chill.

For the Pizza

Pizza is best baked on a pizza stone but a cookie sheet will work as well.

Place the baking stone or cookie sheet in an oven that has been preheated to 500°F. Allow the baking suface to heat for at least 15-20 minutes.

Using 1/4 of the pizza dough recipe (for each pizza), gently stretch into 8-inch rounds. Don't work too hard to get a perfectly round shape.

Once the dough is formed, place it on top of the hot pizza stone and top each pizza with 1/4 cup marinara sauce.

Place the pepperoni discs on top of the sauce and top with the shredded mozzarella.

Bake for approximately ten to twelve minutes until the crust is golden brown.

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GERD / Acid Reflux

This recipe contains GERD triggers and those with GERD may wish to avoid it.

Lactose

This recipe contains cheese and some of those who are lactose intolerant may be able to tolerate it.

Coumadin® (Warfarin)

This recipe is safe for Coumadin (warfarin) users.

Gluten Sensitivity

This recipe is safe for those who are sensitive to gluten. Use a gluten-free pizza crust in this dish.

Sodium

This is NOT a low sodium recipe.

Recipe Notes

While we want to minimize consumption of processed foods, especially processed meats, every now and then you just want a comforting pepperoni pizza.  There are a lot of better quality pepperonis on the market now, many with no nitrates and minimal preservatives.

If you don’t want to make your own tomato sauce, using one of the bottled sauces works fine. The Rao’s Pizza sauce is a good choice, with 180 milligrams of sodium per 1/4-cup serving and no added sugar. It has a good savory flavor that’s just right for pizza. You can also look for a low-sodium tomato sauce if you are on a salt restricted diet — they are much easier to find these days.

Making your own whole wheat pizza dough brings so much to this dish.  The added fiber is great but it also brings a nutty sweet flavor to the pizza that is delicious.

"Believe it or not, Americans eat 75 acres of pizza a day."

Boyd Matson, National Geographic explorer