Thai Chickpea Pizza with Pizza Crust Recipe

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Recipe posted by Palouse Brand on May 26, 2016

Are you looking for a new, fresh recipe to try this week? This Thai inspired Chickpea Pizza might be just what you are looking for! It features a great pizza dough that makes the best pizza crust! Completely free of meat and dairy, it is packed full of flavor! In this recipe, our garbanzo beans are tossed with plum sauce, thinly sliced sweet peppers and spicy red onions. Once out of the oven, it is finished with peanut sauce, fresh green onion, and cilantro. All of this is served on top of a delicious whole wheat crust.

A great pizza begins with a great pizza dough. Today, pizza dough comes in many forms. One of the most popular crusts is the classic Neapolitan pizza crust recipe. While this style of thin crust is the most basic in ingredients, it does require a long rise time and a very hot oven…..around 900 degrees! Our recipe for pizza dough is an adaptation of this classic style. While still a thin crust, it has been slightly enriched with sugar and olive oil to promote caramelization in a lower temperature oven and with a quick rise.

Our pizza dough is made with our Hard White Wheat Berries. Hard white wheat has a high protein content yet mild flavor that is perfect for pizza crust. The fresh milled flour adds incredible flavor to this short rise crust. Our pizza crust recipe is quick to mix and only rises for one hour before being rolled out to bake. It makes the perfect weekday meal!

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prep_time	10 min
total_time	25 min
ingredients_number	10
servings_number	4
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1 prepared Hard White Wheat Pizza Crust Recipe (below) 1/2 cup plum sauce 1 cup cooked chickpeas A pinch of red pepper flakes 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced 1/2 yellow pepper, thinly sliced 1/2 red pepper, thinly sliced 1/4 cup peanut sauce 1 tablespoon thinly sliced green onions 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
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Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Toss chickpeas with plum sauce and stir to coat. Let sit while you slice the onion and peppers. Spoon the chickpeas and plum sauce over the prepared crust spreading out as much as possible. Sprinkle red pepper flakes over the plum sauce to taste (remember, the peanut sauce adds heat as well!). Layer on the onion and peppers. Reduce oven to 450 degrees and bake for 12-13 minutes. Remove the pizza from the oven and drizzle peanut sauce over the pizza. Finish with green onions and cilantro. Hard White Wheat Pizza Crust Recipe Ingredients ¾ cup warm water 1 ½ teaspoons instant yeast 1 teaspoon sugar 260 grams milled Hard White Wheat Flour (2 cups whole wheat flour) 1 ¼ teaspoon table salt 1 tablespoon olive oil Directions Combine the warm water, yeast, and sugar in a mixing bowl and stir to dissolve. Add the flour, salt and olive oil to the bowl and mix until you have formed a shaggy dough. Turn the dough onto a clean work surface. Knead with a pinch of flour until the dough is smooth and elastic. Cover the dough with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel and let rise for one hour in a warm location. After the dough has risen, roll and press into a 14” round on parchment paper Top with desired toppings and bake at 450 degrees for 12-13 minutes.