Pizza: Garlic & Parsley Crust

Eating pizza and watching a movie  has to be one of my favourite family times. Tonight we watched Wall-e and ate pizza with garlic & parsley crust, topped with pepperoni, cherry tomatoes (and some olives for mom), and sprinkled with mozzarella and parmesan cheese.

It tasted good. 

Here's what the garlic & parsley crust looked like. All I did was add a clove of garlic and 1/2 tsp - 1 tsp of parsley, to the recipe bellow:

COMBINE IN A LARGE BOWL:

1 c. all-purpose flour

2 1/4 tsp. undissolved pizza yeast (I used a brand called Fleischmann's, you can get it in grocery stores and I've seen it in bulk food stores)

1 1/2 tsp. sugar

3/4 tsp. salt

ADD:

2/3 c. very warm water

3 Tbl. oil (I use olive, the recipe doesn't specify what kind though)

MIX WELL! And I mean it, you want to mix the dough until it is smooth and elastic like. It should start to clump together before you go on to the next step!

ADD:

Enough flour to make it into a soft dough about 3/4 - 1 1/4 c.

KNEAD, about 4 minutes. Either in the bowl or on the table. I like to knead it in the bowl, because I make less of a mess, until the next step that is!

You have options here, you can either press it onto the pan you want to bake it on, or you can roll it out. I haven't tried pressing it out, but my mom did once, and she said it took a while.

Spread with pizza sauce (or garlic butter...like I did in 'pizza perfect'), and top with your style of toppings.

Bake at 425'F on the lowest oven rack for 9-15 min. (the recipe says 12-15, but I find that mine is usually done in 9 or 10)

EAT! :)