Thursday night, I finally had my first chance of the week to truly RELAX! So after work and a visit to the gym, I headed straight home to make one of my favorite foods — PIZZA! Ever since I learned how to make a super quick and easy dough, pizza has become one of the easiest meals to make. The recipe I’ve eventually settled on is pretty hearty, yet doughy enough for me. I wouldn’t necessarily use it if I wanted a fluffy, thick crust, since I usually divided the dough into 3 portions and roll it out veeeeeeeeeeery thin. Following this recipe, each portion of dough comes out to 290 calories, plus a few extra for flouring the baking stone. Having a healthy base gives me room for lots of toppings, and makes it light enough to eat whenever I have a craving!
Hearty Half Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F
In a small bowl, combine 1 cup warm water with 1 package active yeast; stir and let sit approximately 10 minutes
While yeast mixture is settling, mix 1 cup whole wheat flour with 1 cup white flour. Then add 1 tsp salt and 1 tbsp honey to the flour mixture. Slowly stir the yeast into the flour and knead until a soft dough forms.
Use extra flour for dusting/rolling. Add toppings and bake for 10 minutes!
This gorgeous pizza is actually two servings; usually I just make one a time but I wanted leftovers for lunch! Here are a few of my favorite pizzas I’ve made since starting the blog:
Potato, onion, rosemary pizza
Basil, Grape Tomato, Goat Cheese & Rosemary
Mushroom, Goat Cheese, Grape Tomato & Rosemary
Mushroom & Onion
Mushroom & Onion Calzone
Eggplant, Zucchini, Mushroom, Basil & Onion
Green Pepper, Mushroom, Basil & Onion
Mushroom, Onion & Extra Cheese
Green Pepper, Mushroom, Zucchini, Basil & Onion
Eggplant, Zucchini, Basil & Onion
Red Pepper, Mushroom & Onion
Mushroom & Basil Calzone
Cooking with Kate 
July 19, 2009 at 5:29 pm
wow you are quite the little pizza chef! do you throw the dough in the air and sing while doing so? you should. for sure. i have never made my own pizza dough, but you make it look/sound so easy that i think i should give it a shot! and potatoes on pizza is so dank, people often look at me like i have 3 heads when i do it, but what is better than putting one carb on another?? haha. have a good sunday, thanks for sharing the doughyness!
July 19, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Thanks for sharing this recipe! It sounds super easy and looks super delicious. Believe it or not I’ve NEVER made my own pizza dough. Perhaps laziness, perhaps intimidation. Either way, that should change now! I definitely will have to try this soon.
July 19, 2009 at 6:47 pm
You’re a little pizza queen! They always look amazing, I’m going to have to try your recipe soon!
Glad you got to relax a little bit. Enjoy your sunday!
Kaneil, balanceisbest
July 19, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Darn it, I already finished dinner but now I’m craving pizza!!! Your potato, onion, and rosemary pizza sounds awesome. I love rosemary. Your crust looks so delicious too, and half wheat? Can’t beat it!
July 19, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Ooo I haven’t had calzones in forrrever. Something about eating pizza inside-out makes it 100x better :o)
July 19, 2009 at 11:42 pm
woah – fancy pizza time! i love calzones….haven’t had one in a long time.
July 20, 2009 at 9:26 am
I had to quickly scroll over all those photos because they were making me crave pizza and it’s only 10:30am here 😉 But the last photo is probably my favorite…the calzone looks perfect (crust not too thick, not too thin!).
July 20, 2009 at 10:27 am
Thanks for sharing the recipe! All of your pizzas look so good! Here in Sweden pizzerias only make thin crust pizzas. I know in the US it’s more common with thick fluffy crusts.
July 20, 2009 at 1:25 pm
oh i love love love pizza!!! so yummy! it looks so fresh and healthy..
i think you are right as long as the crust is healthy it makes the whole thing light and yummm!
: )
July 20, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I am in love with all these pizza ideas! I tried making my own crust one time and it was a total FAIL. I’ll have to borrow your recipe next time 🙂
July 20, 2009 at 9:30 pm
pizza parties are so much fun!
Your pizza looks so professional too – so much better than papa johns!
July 21, 2009 at 2:34 am
Love your pizza creations. Better looking than a lot of restaurant pizzas.
July 21, 2009 at 5:09 am
Your pizzas always look so, so, so good!! That crust is KILLIN’ me, it looks so soft and doughy! 🙂
And yesss, la’s weather was perfect this weekend! I loveeee la. Try that matcha tea for me next time you’re at urth!
July 21, 2009 at 1:45 pm
you need to start a pizza shop! everything looks amazing! i swear, theres nothign better than homemade pizza. makes it extra special 🙂
July 21, 2009 at 4:20 pm
i USE your recipe! YUM!!!! so easy, so good…thats it, im making it this week!! xoox LOVE YA!
July 21, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I’m the same way as you, I like my dough very thin!!
Your pizza party looks fantastic. Nice going with all those different toppings!
July 21, 2009 at 10:07 pm
A gal after my own heart! Have you ever made a Mexican pizza?
Bottom layer is a combo of fat free refried beans mixed with enchilada sauce – then a put cooked chopped diced chicken, canned black beans and canned corn.
Then pepper jack cheese and after it comes out of the oven and cools for a minute, I sprinkle with shredded lettuce and pickled jalapenos – yum!
Great job!
July 22, 2009 at 2:39 am
Ooooo, so yummy!! There can’t be anything better than knowing how to make a good pizza!!
July 22, 2009 at 3:08 am
KAte, you are QUEEN of Pizza! Oh my, what a lot of delicious variety!
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September 24, 2012 at 5:40 pm
This sounds delicious– Pizza is our family’s favorite foods. We have it a couple times a week. I am always looking for ways to make our food healthier, but Pizza just seemed to difficult to do that. So usually we just use frozen dough or flat bread. But this only takes about 10 minutes for the dough. Thanks for the recipe!