Cooking with Michy

Servings : 12

 DAY 1 - Pizza Crust

Ingredients

  1 c. flour plus about 1 c. more

 • 2 ¼ tsp. pizza crust yeast

 • 1 ½ tsp. sugar

 • ¾ tsp. salt

 • 2/3 c. very warm water – like bathtub water

 • 3 tbsp. vegetable oil

Directions

 1. In a large bowl, combine 1 c. flour, yeast, sugar, and salt.

 2. Add very warm water. Mix until well blended, about 1 minute.

 3. Add enough flour to make a soft dough (3/4 to 1 ¼ c.)

 4. Dough should form a ball and will still be slightly sticky.

 5. Knead on a floured surface adding additional flour if needed, until smooth and elastic; about 4 minutes.

 6. Cover in plastic wrap and label.

Day 2

 Ingredients

 • Pizza dough

 • 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened

 • 1 cup mayonnaise

 • 1 (1 ounce) package dry Ranch-style dressing mix

 • 1 cup fresh broccoli, chopped

 • 1 cup chopped tomatoes

 • 1 cup chopped green bell pepper

 • 1 cup chopped cauliflower

 • 1 cup shredded carrots

 • 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (190 degrees C).

 2. Roll out the pizza dough onto a pizza pan.

 3. Bake crust for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Once finished cooking, remove crust from oven and let cool 15 minutes without removing it from the baking sheet.

 4. In a small mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, mayonnaise, and dry Ranch dressing.

 5. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust.

 6. Arrange broccoli, tomato, green bell pepper, cauliflower, shredded carrots, and cheddar cheese over the cream cheese layer.

 7. Chill for one hour, slice and serve.

Review: This vegetable pizza took a lot of effort and time, it took two whole classes! Once again our knife skills were really tested and I think that was the difference maker in how well our pizza turned out and look. It was really fun cutting all the different vegetable. Our pizza crust was what held us back, it got a little deformed after baking It, causing the crust to not be as round as we would have liked. It was alright though because it didn't effect our overall finished product. The one thing I would have liked to change is to remove the tomatoes and add some potatoes because I feel like that would give the pizza a nice crunch. I would also like to add some Tzatziki sauce to enhance the flavour of the pizza. The one thing I learned was how to make a pizza crust which will allow me to be able to cook all kinds of pizza. For this being our last recipe of our unit it was a good way to end.