Pizza Recipes
Spinach and Ricotta Pizza Dough
This is a pretty-looking dough and it is a good way to get spinach into the kids. The spinach flavor is very mild and the color is a healthy green. A good pizza for a Christmas party could be made from this green crust with a bright red tomato filling.
Yield:
2 (12 inch) thin crust pizzas
2 stuffed pizza pockets
1 (14 inch) thick crust pizza
6 (6 inch) pizzas
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh spinach, leaves lightly steamed
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 1 egg
- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) olive oil
- 2 packages dry yeast
- 2 teaspoons light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup warm water
Instructions
- Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and stir in the light brown sugar. Set the yeast mixture aside for at least 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, put the ricotta cheese and the spinach leaves in a blender and blend at high speed until you have a smooth, bright green mixture.
- Sift the flour into a bowl with the salt. Make a depression in the center of the flour and add 3 tablespoons of the oil, the egg, the spinach mixture and the yeast mixture.
- Put flour on the kneading board and place the dough mixture on the flour. Knead the mixture for 8 to 10 minutes until the dough is uniformly mixed and elastic. Add flour as you knead if necessary to keep the dough from becoming
too sticky.
- When the dough is ready, place it in a clean bowl that has been brushed with oil.
- Brush the top of the dough with oil and place a clean cloth over the bowl.
- Put the bowl in a warm, draft-free place for 1 1/2 hours.
Attribution
Posted by FootsieBear at Recipe Goldmine 9/26/2001 8:42 pm.