It's Pizza Night!

The family is doing OK on the clean eating plan, but because I'm a newbie, our dinners have been rather bland lately. When I'm in a hurry, I'll just make chicken with brown rice and veggies, which is really tasty, but gets old after a few days. I made the Adobe Rubbed Pork with Pico from the Eat-Clean Cookbook by Tosca Reno last night. It was a huge it. Other than that, most of what I've made has been delicious to me, but not thrilling to the family. I made the choice to eat clean, but they were sort of forced into it. So... I actually found a wonderful recipe for a clean pizza. I made this early last week and everyone loved it so much, they asked if we can have a pizza night. I am happy to oblige.

Clean-Eating Whole Wheat Pizza

Crust - credited to 'Matnerd' on the Men's Health Magazine Forum

1 cup skim milk (scaled)

`1 cup water

2 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp sucanat sugar

1/2 tsp sea salt

1 pkg dry yeast (1 tbsp)

3 cups Whole Wheat Flour

1. Heat milk to almost boiling. Then add the water, oil, sugar and salt. Set aside.
2. In another large bowl (for mixer or bread machine), add 1/4 cup very warm water (105 to 115 degrees) and 1 tbsp active dry yeast. Add to the milk mixture. Milk mixture should be warm, but not too hot. If too hot, the yeast will die.
3. Stir in 3 cups of Whole Wheat Flour
4. Once thoroughly mixed, add additional flour and knead to the point that the dough is smooth, elastic and not sticky (i.e., when you take your hands off of the dough, pieces of dough should stick to your hands).
5. Put the dough in a bowl that is lightly coated with oil, cover with a damp towel and place in a warm location to proof (Matnerd's suggestion is to heat the oven to 150 degrees, turn it off and then place the bowl in the oven). "Proofing" the dough, essentially, means allow it to rise. Once the dough is double it's original size, it's ready for use (about an hour).
6. Dough is ready for use. :-)

Toppings:

extra-lean ground turkey (seasoned with 1/2 tsp Italian spice blend), 1/2 cup mushrooms, veggies, onions, reduced fat mozzarella cheese, whatever you want...

Bake in pre-heated oven set to 425 degrees for 12 - 14 minutes.

I used a canned pizza sauce option last time, which was pretty clean, but I may try to make my own tonight.