Friday, June 15, 2007

GF Recipe - Pizza Dough and Sauce

I found this recipe online, but it needed a little tweaking.

Makes enough to feed a 6 year old almost 3 times.

I'm going to freeze the spare dough, cheese and sauce. Since we generally do Pizza on Fridays, it won't live for months in my freezer. I figure, the dough is enough for two meals and the sauce is enough for 4, the cheese is probably 4 as well. (It would be 2 for most others who don't constipate at the drop of a hat)

Cost analysis per meal at bottom of recipe.

PIZZA DOUGH
1 c Gluten Free Flour
1/2 c Cornstarch (that has not been processed in the same facility as wheat)
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Xanthan Gum
1/2 tsp Adobo Con Crillolo (Spanish Garlic Salt w/Pepper)
1 tsp Italian Seasoning
3/4 c Milk
1/4 c Oil
Foil
Cookie Sheet

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Mix dry ingredients. Add milk, stir. Add oil, knead. Will make a very soft dough. Let dough sit for 5 minutes to breathe. Put foil on cookie sheet to protect from accidental cross contamination. Flatten dough into a circle about 1/4 inch thick. If you want to get tricky, get some mozzarella string cheese and quarter them lengthways, then roll them into the edges of the crust. Bake for 7 minutes. This will keep the dough relatively soft in the center. If you bake it too long it becomes a really hard cracker type disc thing.


SAUCE
8 oz can of organic tomato sauce
12 oz can of diced italian style tomatoes
1.5 tsp Diced garlic
Oregano
Basil
Adobo or Sea Salt
Italian Spices
Sugar
Mix diced tomatoes, garlic, sugar and sauce. Add spices as desired. Or not. Add adobo/salt or not. Spoon tomato mix onto dough, as far towards the edge as possible. Use as much as you feel you need. Sprinkle with cheese, veggies, fruit, meat... it's pizza. Pick your own toppings. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes or until edges become pretty and golden.
COST ANALYSIS (guesstimated)
Dough
GF Flour - $6 per bag. Cost of 1 cup = 50 cents.
Cornstarch - $1.50 per box. Cost of 1/2 cup = 15 cents.
Baking Powder - 5 cents
Xanthan Gum - 35 cents
Milk - 50 cents
Oil - 20 cents
Spices - 20 cents
Total cost = $1.95
Divided by 2 for my kid is about $1.00 per serving
Sauce
Tomato sauce = 80 cents
Diced tomatoes = $1.25
Garlic - 15 cents
Spices - 20 cents
Total cost = $2.40
Divided by 4 for my kid is about $.60 per serving.
Pizza Toppings
Cheese - 8 oz = $1.25
Peperoni - $2.00
Total cost = $3.25
Both of these are comfortably cut into 1/3rds and rounded up to $1.20 per serving.
Bottom Line
Meal expenditure full total = $7.60
My per meal cost = $2.80

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