Basil Cheese Pizza

Friday night pizza is such a great tradition in the family.  When you add the challenge of gluten free, you add planning.  It is still easy, inexpensive and do able.  You do need to think about it sooner than 20 minutes before you want to eat.

To begin with, I make one to two batches of Pamela's Product Chewy Pizza Crust.  As you may guess, I buy a lot of Pamela's Product flour mix.  It comes in a 4 lb bag and a 25 lb bag.  In the summertime when I bake less, I buy a case at a time of the 4lb bags.  In the winter, I buy the 25lb bag from Amazon.com.

Pamela's Chewy Pizza Crust

3-1/2 cups Pamela's Bread/Flour mix
2-1/4 tsp active dry yeast or 1 package
1/4 cup oil ( I used Grape seed Oil)
1-1/2 cups warm water
1-2 T corn meal.

Sauce
1 can tomato sauce
1 T honey
2 T garlic and herbs

6-9 nice leaves of basil

2 cups cheese- mixed or not a mixture.

This makes two crusts.  Use a stand mixer with a whisk attachment.  Combine dry mix, yeast, oil and water.  Mix on medium for 2 minutes.  Grease a flat pan.  I find the a flat pan without side works the best.  It is harder to pick up the pieces if you use a cookie sheet.  I use a stone pan.  Sprinkle some corn meal on the oil.  I had purple corn meal at home, so, my dough looked a bit odd.  The corn meal adds fiber and is considered to be a poor protein source.  It is a complex carbohydrate.  Grease you hands and flatten the dough.  It will be sticky.  This is normal.  I use a rolling pressing motion when I flatten the dough.  Let it rest for one hour.  I usually place a wet paper towel over the dough to keep it from drying out and a hand towel over it.  Sometimes it rests for one hour sometimes more, depending on when else I am accomplishing while thinking about dinner.

After one hour, bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes.  This is really important because otherwise the dough is raw and gooey in the middle.

Sauce

You have several options here, pizza sauce, doctored spaghetti sauce or plain Jane tomato sauce.  I had plane Jane tomato sauce at my  homer.  I poured 1 cup or half the can in a small bowl.  I added about 1 T honey and 1T garlic and herbs.  mix and spread on the crust after it has begun cooking.

Place the pizza sauce and top of the crusts. Then add fresh basil you can cut it up or leave it whole.  Spread cheese all around.  There as several other options I sometimes add.
2-4 garlic cloves smashed with a garlic press and spread over the whole pizza.
14 olives chopped
onions 1/2 cup
2 cup cheese

Bake again for 20-25 minutes until the cheese is hot and bubbly.