Stuffed Pizza Crust At Home

Stuffed pizza crust is very hot these days, if you pardon the pun. It even has some of us beginning to reverse our pizza eating habits by starting our meal at the crust.

People can get very particular when it comes to food and especially in the pizza world. Most order the same pie every time. But when stuffed pizza crust came out, many jumped ship on their old favorites.

I don’t think anyone really knows where it originated. It just appeared in a TV commercial one day and became an overnight sensation. I believe all the large franchise chains have a version of a stuffed pizza crust now. Of course anything really popular usually comes with a premium price. Stuffed pizza crust pizzas are no exception.

Want to save some money and get a better pie at the same time? Make your own stuffed pizza crust pizza at home from scratch. I’m not kidding. It’s really not that hard and you can make it just the way you want it, both in topping selection and dough type.

You can get a good stuffed pizza crust dough recipe right off the Internet. This will illustrate the first advantage of making your own homemade stuffed pizza crust, the number of dough types. Usually restaurants only offer two or three types of crust, but there really are scores of them if you’re willing to make the effort at home.

Yeast is the key ingredient in most pizza doughs. This leavener creates air inside the dough so it won’t be tough. After allowing the yeast to become active in warm water for a few minutes, it is combined with flour and more water and stirred to form a ball. This ball of dough is allowed to rise, then is punched down to remove large air pockets and rolled out to shape. You are close to final assembly of your stuffed pizza crust pizza at this point.

Stuffed pizza crust pizza making is like making any other pizza with one little step added; getting the cheese inside the outside crust. Seem difficult? It’s really not at all. Simply roll out the dough until it’s about four inches longer and wider than the pan you plan to use to bake in on. Pick up the rolled-out dough and place it over the pan until it has about an equal amount of dough overhanging each side. Now using either store-bought cheese sticks or some of your favorite grated cheese, place a narrow pile of cheese all the way around the edge of the pie about 1 1/2 inches in from the edge. To finish, start folding over the outside flap of dough over the cheese and press it into the inside dough to seal it. Keep working around the pie until you get back to where you started. You’ve just made the basic stuffed pizza crust pizza dough base.

The only thing remaining is to start adding your favorite toppings then bake as instructed. That’s it! You just made your first stuffed pizza crust and saved a bundle doing it!

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