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Pizza gets a bad rap healthwise, but when it's made at home it can be perfectly healthy. I make flatbread and use that as the pizza crust. Then everybody in th

Pizza gets a bad rap healthwise, but when it's made at home it can be perfectly healthy. I make flatbread and use that as the pizza crust. Then everybody in the family gets to put their choice of toppings on. It's a bit of a circus as you can only bake one pizza at a time in our 24" oven, but circuses are fun. The advantage of the flatbread is all you really have to do is get the toppings hot and cheese melted, as the crust is already cooked. Pizza purists won't like that, but it works very well. You can keep the sugar and salt content reasonable, and making a decent sauce is really simple.

ilyt 4y ago
Got any good recipe for flatbread ? I tried few but kinda got mildly dissatisfied with most I tried. Or annoyed that they took enough work that I might as well be making pizza. I got food processor nearly just to make pizza dough without much mess. Just one big batch that then gets mostly frozen after for fast pizza on upcoming weeks. Flatbreads I prefer to use as base for essentially a grilled sandwich or to put some leftovers between 2 and heat it up as sort of "quesadilla" > Pizza gets a bad rap healthwise, but when it's made at home it can be perfectly healthy. Eh, half of that will still be crust and that's basically calories-only. I would still not call it healthy unless you replaced so many "traditional" pizza elements that it stopped being a pizza and became just some round bread-like carrier for ingredients. Being able to fit within healthy eating, sure, but still something that would be hard to eat day to day unless you got high daily calorie burn.
- deltarholamda 4y ago
  >Got any good recipe for flatbread I don't remember where I got this, but I have it memorized. 6 C bread flour 4 tsp rapid rise yeast (breadmaker yeast) 2 tsp salt 2 tsp sugar 2 Tbsp olive oil Mix 5 C flour, yeast, salt, sugar and oil in stand mixer or by hand. Add the last cup of flour (or possibly more, depends on temp and humidity, etc) until the dough is no longer sticky. Dump out dough, knead by hand a bit until it's soft and smooth. Add flour as needed. Make a ball, put in greased bowl, spray top with cooking spray, cover with towel and let rise until doubled, about an hour. Dump out risen dough, punch down and knead a bit more, then divide into 16 pieces (8 if you're doing pizza crust sizes). Make balls from the pieces, cover with towel, and let rise a second time, about 30 mins. Flatten out balls into rounds, can use a rolling pin but can also do by hand. Gently stretch to reach desired size. Cook the bread on a cast iron griddle or pan set to medium to medium high heat, about 1-2 mins per side. Kids love every step of this process. You're supposed to be able to freeze the flatbread if you want, but I never have because it's gone in a couple of days, as I have a big family. I also use 3 Tbsp of olive oil instead of 2 for the extra fat calories. Most of the sugar is used up by the yeast, this is not at all sweet. You can certainly add herbs or whatever, but we use these for gyros, mini pizzas, dipping in hummus or tzatziki, pita mozz, that sort of thing. It's dead easy, and as I said, if you do it with kids it's great fun.

ilyt 4y ago

Got any good recipe for flatbread ? I tried few but kinda got mildly dissatisfied with most I tried. Or annoyed that they took enough work that I might as well be making pizza. I got food processor nearly just to make pizza dough without much mess. Just one big batch that then gets mostly frozen after for fast pizza on upcoming weeks. Flatbreads I prefer to use as base for essentially a grilled sandwich or to put some leftovers between 2 and heat it up as sort of "quesadilla" > Pizza gets a bad rap healthwise, but when it's made at home it can be perfectly healthy. Eh, half of that will still be crust and that's basically calories-only. I would still not call it healthy unless you replaced so many "traditional" pizza elements that it stopped being a pizza and became just some round bread-like carrier for ingredients. Being able to fit within healthy eating, sure, but still something that would be hard to eat day to day unless you got high daily calorie burn.

deltarholamda 4y ago
>Got any good recipe for flatbread I don't remember where I got this, but I have it memorized. 6 C bread flour 4 tsp rapid rise yeast (breadmaker yeast) 2 tsp salt 2 tsp sugar 2 Tbsp olive oil Mix 5 C flour, yeast, salt, sugar and oil in stand mixer or by hand. Add the last cup of flour (or possibly more, depends on temp and humidity, etc) until the dough is no longer sticky. Dump out dough, knead by hand a bit until it's soft and smooth. Add flour as needed. Make a ball, put in greased bowl, spray top with cooking spray, cover with towel and let rise until doubled, about an hour. Dump out risen dough, punch down and knead a bit more, then divide into 16 pieces (8 if you're doing pizza crust sizes). Make balls from the pieces, cover with towel, and let rise a second time, about 30 mins. Flatten out balls into rounds, can use a rolling pin but can also do by hand. Gently stretch to reach desired size. Cook the bread on a cast iron griddle or pan set to medium to medium high heat, about 1-2 mins per side. Kids love every step of this process. You're supposed to be able to freeze the flatbread if you want, but I never have because it's gone in a couple of days, as I have a big family. I also use 3 Tbsp of olive oil instead of 2 for the extra fat calories. Most of the sugar is used up by the yeast, this is not at all sweet. You can certainly add herbs or whatever, but we use these for gyros, mini pizzas, dipping in hummus or tzatziki, pita mozz, that sort of thing. It's dead easy, and as I said, if you do it with kids it's great fun.