Feb. 9 – National Pizza Day

Photo by Pizza Hut©

National Pizza Day is on February 9th of every year.  How are you going to celebrate?

 

If you like Pizza Hut©‘s crust, try making it at home with the aid of a bread machine.  Check out the Genius Kitchen recipe below:

 

Yield: Serves 6

Ingredients:

• 1 ¹⁄₃ cups water
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 ¹⁄₄teaspoons salt
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons cornmeal
• 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¹⁄₄teaspoon garlic powder
• ¹⁄₄teaspoon onion powder
• 1 ¹⁄₂teaspoons bread machine yeast

 

Directions:

1. Add ingredients (except for cornmeal) to machine bread pan in order as per manufacturer’s instructions.
2. Set to “Dough” cycle.
3. Lightly grease one 9 x 13-inch pan and sprinkle with cornmeal.
4. When the dough cycle is complete, roll out dough and place in pan.
5. Let rest in pans for 10-15 minutes.
6. Add toppings of your choice.
7. Bake at 350°F until done (approximately 20 minutes, depending on the thickness of toppings).

 

Alternative Options:

If you want to have square pieces, bake your pizza in 9 x 16 rectangular pans instead of the round pizza pan.

Also, the original recipe called for 1/2tsp. msg (monosodium glutamate)/ (Accent®)