The whole wheat pizza dough recipe is typically a difficult pizza recipe, rarely used in restaurants or pizza shops. All-purpose flour is the choice of flour vs wheat flour.
Whole wheat vs. all purpose flour recipes
The all-purpose flour yields a much softer and flexible dough than to wheat flour dough. This is the primary reason why many people believe that a 100% whole wheat recipes are impossible to make at home.
While it is true that handling whole wheat is difficult, but difficult in no ways means impossible.
There are a few who believe in making their pizza recipe using bread flour. Bread flour is great and is rich in gluten. All-purpose flour and wheat flour has less gluten to bread flour. If you try to use a lot of yeast and try to ferment a gluten-rich flour in less time, the end result is going to be chewy.
Since restaurant and pizza bakers want to minimize the time spent in the fermentation process, they use all-purpose flour that ferments easily and helps to make pizza crusts faster for them.
Gluten, let's talk.
We have been talking about gluten, but what is gluten? Gluten is a protein. This protein, when wet, makes the dough spongy and elastic. It is because of this gluten; the bread gets its chewiness. It is the amount of gluten that determines the fermentation time and sponginess of a dough.
Gluten - A global controversy
Read my views about gluten and what it does to you.
Is Pizza junk food?
What essentially makes Pizza a junk food? Let’s look at whether to consider pizzas as a junk food a little later, let’s first solve the quest of what is “Junk Food”. The term junk food in itself is relative. If you are somebody who exercises regularly, perhaps eating a pizza slice topped with cheese, is not junk food for you. But if you are a lazy lad like me, eating even a single slice of pizza, topped with cheese, is definitely a junk food. Now you know if the pizza that you are eating is junk for you or not.
Now let us look specifically at a pizza. Pizzas in itself are not junk food. It is made of flour, yeast, cheese, sauce and a lot of vegetables. Nothing in all to be considered as junk. Depending on what you have used can change the entire outlook of pizza.
Instead of using All-Purpose flour, if you make whole wheat pizza base for your pizza bakes, you are most likely going to eat a lot healthier version of pizza.
Why Whole Wheat Pizza?
Whole wheat pizza keeps you emotionally strong by not giving you the guilt of you eating all-purpose flour. We all know why we should be avoiding eating all-purpose flour. But that’s not the only reason why we should switch to whole wheat flour pizza base for our pizzas recipe.
In one of my earlier recipe, Multigrain bread, I have explained the benefits of whole wheat. Wheat flour has amazing benefits only if it is a whole grain. If it is a stripped grain (wheat), it is no better than all-purpose flour. This homemade whole wheat pizza dough recipe is a guaranteed recipe to make you stop looking pizza as a junk food any more.
Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe
Remember, you should be using whole wheat flour. I used Red Mill Whole Wheat Flour which is a 100% stone ground whole wheat flour. Though this one goes on the expensive side, certainly the best I have found so far. As an alternative, considering Organic Tatva which is the second best according to me.
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Quick Notes
Tin Size | |
Oven Temp | 220 °C |
Baking Time | 15 min |
MW Convection Temp | 200 °C |
Baking Time | 15 min |
Demold Instructions | Immediately |
Cooling Time | NA |
PS: Use conversion table to switch recipe between grams and cups.
In a pan, take oil/butter. Add chopped garlic and onions and sauté these for 10 minutes on medium flame. Now add chopped tomatoes, salt, sugar, all the spices and cover with lid.
Let it cook on medium flame for another 5 minutes. In last add tomato sauce and cook for 2-3 minutes. Pizza sauce is ready. Once it cools down, store it in a glass jar.
To activate the yeast take lukewarm water in a bowl, dissolve sugar and yeast. Keep it aside until yeast froths.
In a mixing bowl, add flour, Oil, salt and yeast solution. Start adding water and knead the dough. Initially, the dough will be sticky but after 10 minutes of kneading, you will get a non-sticky and smooth dough.
Keep this dough in a greased bowl and cover it with cling wrap. Keep it aside for 30 minutes on until dough doubles in volume.
After 30 minutes, take the whole wheat pizza dough out on a floured surface. Punch it to release the air and knead it for 5 minutes.
With the help of a rolling pin, roll the dough into a disc of 1/4 inches in thickness or desired thickness. Place this disc into a greased baking tray.
Prick the base with the help of a fork. Spread pizza sauce on it and arrange all the chopped vegetables.
Meanwhile, put the oven for preheating at 220 °C for 10 minutes.
Add grated cheese and sprinkle seasoning on it. Top it with sliced olives and bake it in a preheated oven for 15 minutes at 220 degree Celsius.
Once done, take it out, slice it and serve hot.
Now its time for you to bake this pleasurable savory delight. See you soon!
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Ingredients
For Pizza Sauce
- 1/2 cup Onions Finely Chopped
- 1 cup Tomatoes Chopped (Deseeded)
- 2 tbsp Tomato Sauce
- 1 tbsp garlic Chopped
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 2 tbsp Butter (you can use Oil as well)
- 1 tbsp Mixed herbs
- 1/2 tsp Black pepper
- 1 tbsp Red Chilli sauce
For Pizza Dough
- 250 gram Whole Wheat Flour
- 3 gram Instant Yeast
- 120 ml Lukewarm Water
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup Bell Pepper Red / Yellow / Green - Sliced
- 1/4 cup Onion Sliced
- 2 tbsp Pizza Sauce
- 5 pcs Olives
- 1 tsp Seasoning
- 1/4 cup Mozzarella Cheese Grated
- 1 tbsp Oil
Instructions
- In a pan, take oil/butter. Add chopped garlic and onions and sauté these for 10 minutes on medium flame. Now add chopped tomatoes, salt, sugar, all the spices and cover with lid. Let it cook on medium flame for another 5 minutes. In last add tomato sauce and cook for 2-3 minutes. Pizza sauce is ready. Once it cool down, store it in a glass jar.
- To activate the yeast take lukewarm water in a bowl, dissolve sugar and yeast. Keep it aside until yeast froths.
- In a mixing bowl, add flour, Oil, salt and yeast solution. Start adding water and knead the dough. Initially the dough will be sticky but after 10 minutes of kneading you will get non-sticky and smooth dough.
- Keep this dough in a greased bowl and cover it with cling wrap. Keep it aside for 30 minutes on until dough doubles in volume.
- After 30 minutes, take the dough out on a floured surface. Punch it to release the air and knead it for 5 minutes.
- With the help of a rolling pin, roll the dough into a disc of 1/4 inches in thickness or desired thickness. Place this disc into a greased baking tray.
- Prick the base with the help of a fork. Spread pizza sauce on it and arrange all the chopped vegetables.
- Meanwhile Put the oven for preheating at 220 degree Celsius for 10 minutes.
- Add grated cheese and sprinkle seasoning on it.
- Top it with sliced olives and bake it in a preheated oven for 15 minutes at 220 degree Celsius.
- Once done, take it out, slice it and serve hot.
It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the recipe here. Keep up the good work.
Hi,. Mam can I use ashirwad atta in the place of wwf..
Hello Sunanda,
Yes, you can use it.
Happy Baking!
Ma’am ,
can we put iron tawa in otg to bake pizza crust crispy??
Yes, you can but make sure it does not have a plastic handle.
So I was trying the tangzhen wheat bread, second time and yeast mishap, dough did not rise even after 3 hours. So I made a pizza base and it has come out very well. Half baked it now for 7 mins and will rebake with sauce for dinner .
Thank you for getting me started with baking.
Hello sonia..alwaya admire your detailed reciepies.
l will try this one n post a pic of it on the group.
I want to ask….shall i make a dough o pizza or buns always when we need it . just .prior to it or we can make a dough a day before also?If yes then pls tell how to do this….
My second question is if we left with some dough …then how can we use it latter ..as in pizza we dont need seco d proofing?
One more thing….during baking pav or pizzza ..if one slot is already in the oven then outer slot will remainn on with proofing,so that way over proofing will b done for outer lot of pav and outer pizza also.PLS.. clear my doubts. How these eating joints like dominos…can make pizzas freshly whole day?i just wonder always
Archan you can knead the dough and store it in refrigerator up to three days and use it whenever required.
Mam plz suggest which cheese is best in pizzas as it plays the major role in this.
I use Chaudhary cheese bar is it ok? Or any other cheese u recommend.
Ishu, I prefer using Amul’s mozzarella cheese.
Hi Sonia,
Can we bake the pizza base separately and use it instantly when we want? If I have to do so should I wait for second raise and how much time should I bake it for in MWC oven
You may bake the base for 8 minutes and then store it for later use.
Thanks
sonia
Thank you for the beautiful explanations and easy recipes ma’am. Baked a cheese burst pizza and a thin crust pizza following this procedure and it came out too good. Everyone in the house enjoyed it. Thank you once again.
Mam.. can I use maida instead of whole wheat . Just the same measurements as you used here
Yes Sangeetha, you can use APF instead of WWF.
Happy Baking!
Sonia
If I want to bake it in microwave convection mode, what would be the temperature and time setting?
Please check the recipe notes for all these details.
Hello mam as i baked pizza it’s came out perfect….but crust is soft….did u use cornmeal to dust…plz leeme know…. urgently …as i want crispy crust.. please solve my query asap..tia
Ankita, to get a crispy crust, use a castiron skillet.
Should the base be baked blind before putting the filling and baking?
Jyotsna, you don’t need to bake the base first. You can simply roll the dough, put everything on it and bake.
Can u give measurements in cups for wwf & water for pizza base plz? It will be really helpful for me
Arpita for that please use conversion chart that is on my blog.
Hi mam, I have a doubt. While baking pizza both rods on or only the bottom one?
Geethu I use both the coils to bake pizza.