100% Whole grain pizza? Is this a joke?

[Villa Roma]

Re: 100% Whole grain pizza? Is this a joke?

Here is the ingredient list for the pizza crust. I was using a preferment but found it wasn't necessary. This is for 400 grams of flour, you can scale it up or down to suit your needs. I used 1/32 of a tsp IDY per 100 gm of flour. You can find mini measuring spoon sets on e-bay or at kitchen stores from 1/64 through 1/4 tsp. or just eyeball it.

400 gm Gold Medal stone ground whole wheat flour (100%)
200 gm water (50%)
200 gm cold milk (50%)
8 gm honey (2%)
8 gm sea salt (2%)
8 gm lite olive oil (2%)
1/8 tsp IDY
small pinch ascorbic acid (vitamin C) Do not leave this out!

I make this the night before and it's literally a dump and stir. I put the flour in a bowl and dump everything else in and stir it with the end of a long plastic spoon. Let it sit for an hour and stir it again, then just let it sit overnight. In the morning stir it again. About every 3-4 hours give it a stir, at this point you can either refridgerate it or toss it in a mixer or processor to really develop the glutenus to the maximus. You can also scale it and use it with just the hand mixing.

I'll be making a video later this week and I plan on making three batches. One will be hand mixed, one I'll use my mixer and the last I'll hand mix and retard in the refer. I made a test refer dough and I took it straight from the fridge and cooked it with no warm up time and it was fantastico, as they say in Italy. I'll post a link to the video probably late Saturday or Sunday.

Villa Roma

[Ken524]

Re: 100% Whole grain pizza? Is this a joke?

Villa Roma,

Wow! I'm camping out right here in this thread so I'll be in the front of the line when you publish the recipe!

[Villa Roma]

Re: 100% Whole grain pizza? Is this a joke?

I also made a litter of beagles with the same whole grain dough. They're like bagels only better. Check out all the English muffin like holes to catch the melted butter! Who needs pop tarts when you have these puppies!

Villa Roma

[Villa Roma]

Re: 100% Whole grain pizza? Is this a joke?

Ok, I just made another batch of 100% whole grain pizza and beagles. (not bagels). I used Gold Medal stone ground whole wheat flour and they came out great. Here's some pics.

Villa Roma

[BrianShaw]

Re: 100% Whole grain pizza? Is this a joke?

How many pictures of 100% whole grain pizzas have you seen that you would really want to eat? Personally I haven't found even one but that's about to change.

Me neither. I can't wait for you to perfect the recipe and share. I'll try it if the pizza will look as good as your picture!

[Villa Roma]

No joke here folks. One could say that 100% whole grain pizza is the holy grail of pizza. Sure some people have made pizza with whole grains but most aren't using 100% stone ground whole grains.

Those that are using 100% whole grains are usually making a heavy, dense crust that has a somewhat bitter flavor. How many pictures of 100% whole grain pizzas have you seen that you would really want to eat? Personally I haven't found even one but that's about to change.

I've made pizza with 50% and 66% whole grains, that was too easy. This time I decided to jump on board the stone ground whole grain pizza crazy train. I made two small test pizzas, one with 100% GM stone ground whole wheat flour and another with 100% Hodgsons mills stone ground whole wheat graham flour. Check them out below. These are just the prototypes and I mixed these by hand. They will come out much better when I use my mixer.

I'm working out the details of the large recipe so stay tuned.

Villa Roma