Gluten Free Pizza Dough

This gluten free pizza dough is both delicious and healthy. It uses brown rice flour, tapioca flour, and a combination of buckwheat, amaranth, and teff flour to replace traditional wheat flour, which results in a hearty, flavorful, slightly nutty crust.

Many of these ingredients are beginning to show up on supermarket shelves, and are also available at specialty food stores. They are also easily ordered on the internet. Bob's Red Mill carries a full line of whole grain and gluten free products at

For another alternative also try this gluten free pizza dough recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
• 1/2 cup amaranth, buckwheat, or teff flour
• 2 cups tapioca flour
• 2/3 cup instant non-fat dry milk powder (dairy-free: 2/3 cup ground almond meal)
• 3 teaspoons xanthan gum
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons active dry yeast
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 1/2 cups water (105-115F.) or less
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 egg whites at room temperature
• Olive oil for spreading pizza dough

Directions:

Grease two 13-inch pizza pans, using organic shortening. In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the flours, milk powder, xanthan gum, salt, yeast, and sugar. In a measuring cup, combine the water and 3 tablespoons olive oil. Add olive oil-water mixture to dry ingredients, then egg whites, mixing well after each addition. Beat on high speed for 4 minutes.

Divide dough into two (or four) equal portions. Place each portion on a prepared pizza pan. Cover your hand with a clean plastic bag. Drizzle about a tablespoon of olive oil over your hand and one portion of dough. Spread the dough out evenly over the pizza pan, forming a ridge around the edge to contain the pizza toppings. Repeat process for second portion of dough. Let dough rise for about 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 400?F. Bake pizza crusts for 7 minutes (until lightly golden) and remove from oven. At this point you can either cool the crusts, wrapping and freezing them for future use, or you can spread tomato sauce on the crust and top with your favorite toppings.

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