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Basic Pizza Dough

Wilh this dough, you can make large pizza crusts lo serve several, or small ones lo serve a few.

INGREDIENTS

1package active dry yeast

1(easpoon sugar

2/3 cup warm waler

1-2/3cups all-purpose Hour 3/4 teaspoon salt

2teaspoons oil

Vegelable oif for pan 1-1/2 tablespoons cornmeal lor pan

114-incbpizza crust Oft

2 9-inch pizza cwsls

Stir yeast and sugar inlo warm waler and lei stand until foamy, about 10 minuies. Inserl melal blade, pul flour and salt in work bowl and lurn on machine Pour veast mixture through feed tube and process about 45 seconds, until dough pulls away from sides of bowl. Add oil through feed tube and process 60 seconds longer.

If dough sticks lo sides of bowl, add more Hour, 1 tablespoon at a lime, processing lor 10 seconds after each addition, until dough leaves sides of bowl bul remains sofl.

Roll dough on floured surlace into circle, rotating and lurning dough oflen and using enough Hour so it doesn't stick, if dough resists rolling, lei it rest for a few minutes and Iry again. Roll dough into 15-inch circle lor flat 14-inch pizza pan, or into 10-inch circles for flal 9-inch pizza pans.

Oil pan(s) lighlly and sprinkle with cornmeal. Fold rolled dough in hall loosely and then in half again. Position point at center of pan and gently unfold. Press inlo place from center outward, lurn under the 1-inch overhang and shape it inlo a rim. Crusl(s) is now ready lo bake and fill.

Pizza In a Hurry

It takes no longer to make this pizza than lo wait for one you order to lake oul.

INGREDIENTS

114-ounce pizza crust (see recipe, left)

4 ounces Parmesan cheese, at room tern peralure

2 ounces pepperoni, peeled, in 3 pieces

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ounces Mozzarella cheese, very cold

1small onion, peeled, ends cut Hat

1medium green pepper, cored, seeded and cut flat at stem

1medium lomalo, cored, cut flal at ends

lcup Tomalo Pizza sauce (see recipe, right)

Pinch of sugar

Freshly ground black pepper

1/2 leaspoon dried basil or 1 teaspoon Iresh 1/2 teaspoon dried ofegano or 1 teaspoon

Iresh

Preheat oven to 425"F and place rack in lower Ihird. Bake pizza crust for 6 minuies. In the meanlime. prepare filling.

Use metal blade to process Parmesan cheese and pepperoni until coarsely chopped. Set aside on dish or waxed paper.

insert shredding disc and process Mozzarella cheese. Set aside

Insert slicing disc and slice onion. Set aside. Slice green pepper and set aside. Slice tomato, using lighl pressure. Sel aside on paper lowels to drain.

Use rubber spalula to spread lomalo sauce evenly over crust, leaving rim exposed. Separate each onion slice inlo rings and distribute them over sauce. Distribute shredded Mozzarella over onions. Arrange tomato slices over cheese and sprinkle with pinch ol sugar and pepper.

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Cuisinart DLC-10S manual Teaspoons oil, Incbpizza crust Oft Inch pizza cwsls, Ounce pizza crust see recipe, left

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