GF Pizza Dough

Here is a good recipe for pizza dough, I usually make ~ 6, 12 inch pizza's and freeze half for later. I have also used it to make pizza bread and bread sticks. If I don't have milk powder I use milk instead of water and it works fine.

GF Pizza Crust

• 700 g GF Flour Mix ( I like ⅓ teff, ⅓ sorghum and ⅓ potato starch)
• ¾ c. dry milk powder
• 1 Tb. xanthan gum
• 1 ¼ tsp. salt
• 1 ¼ Tb. sugar
• 1 ½ Tb. instant yeast
• 1/3 c. oil
• 5 egg whites (room temp. can warm up eggs under hot water)
• 1 ¾ c. warm water (105-115 degrees; reserve some)

Combine dry ingredients in mixing bowl. Add oil and egg whites and mix on low speed. Add the water until dough is thin but not watery. Let it mix a while before deciding to add more. Mix on high speed about 3 minutes. Let rise about 40 minutes. Roll out the dough onto parchment paper and put into 400 degree oven for 8-10 minutes at this point you can freeze the pizza crusts for later use.


For pizza: add pizza sauce, cheese and toppings. Bake about 15 minutes more. This second bake does best one at a time, or add the second one half way through the time for the first one.


To make pizza bread just push the bread out onto a floured surface to about 1- 1 ½ in thick and top with pizza toppings, I prefer salami and cheese. Then roll it into a long roll, brush with oil and put 4-5 small slits on the top then bake at 400 degrees for 30 - 40 minutes or until light brown.


To make bread sticks: after rising put dough in lg plastic bag and cut off one corner then squeeze into long lines on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or a silpat mat. Then sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and bake for ~20 minutes.

Fruit Tarts

Here is an easy dessert I've been making a lot lately. You just make this simple tart shell and add whatever you have on hand. I first did apples, because my son saw some apples in the refrigerator and said, "mommy make apple pie". I did not have enough apples for a whole pie so I just made this tart crust in a muffin tin and put a simple apple filling together. It turned out great so I started adding other things. I most recently did strawberry jam, which is really easy and great tasting.

Fruit Tart

Shell

• 140 g (1 cup) Brown Rice Flour Mix (2 parts brown rice flour, 1 part tapioca starch, 1 part sorghum flour)
  
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  
• Pinch of salt
  
• 5 tablespoons cold butter or shortening (shortening makes it crispier)
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  

Preheat oven to 350⃘F. Grease 12 cup muffin pan. Combine flour, sugar, xanthan gum and salt. Add butter and vanilla and cut together until crumbly and pushes together.
Press into bottoms of muffin pan and bake 5 min.

Filling

• Fruit Preserves or Spread or
  
• thinly sliced fruit with a little lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon.
  

Put filling in shell and cook an additional 20 - 35 minutes depending on how much filling you put in.

Cool and enjoy :)