Tonight was pizza night. We have found that pizza freezes great. We cut out several cardboard rounds about the same size as our pizza stone then cover them with heavy aluminum foil. Spread the dough over the foil covered cardboard and make your pizza as usual. Wrap with several layers of plastic wrap and freeze. To thaw, take your pizza out in the morning. While frozen gently pull your pizza away from the foil and place on your pizza stone or pan. Thaw in the fridge. Bake as usual. (Don't try baking your pizza on the cardboard round. My sister did this while staying with Claire when I was in the hospital. It will set off your smoke alarm, so unless you are looking to test that out, I wouldn't suggest it.)
Here is our favorite pizza dough. You just make it in the bread machine, but you could definitely make it by hand as well.
Cheese and Garlic Pizza Dough
1 1/4 cups warm water
3 to 4 TB extra virgin olive oil
3 1/2 cups bread flour
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 to 2 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp instant yeast
Place ingredients in your bread machine and set for dough mode.
BBQ Chicken Pizza
2 cups cooked and shredded chicken
1 1/2 cups BBQ sauce, divided (our favorite is Famous Dave's)
3 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella
1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion
Mix about 1/2 cup BBQ sauce with shredded chicken. Spread remaining sauce over rolled out dough. Sprinkle with 3 cups mozzarella. Spread chicken and onions over cheese and top with remaining mozzarella. Bake at 400 for about 15-20 minutes.
Kati, this is such a great idea. I have always frozen balls of pizza dough, but never thought to make the pizza and then freeze it. Do you have a large freezer? Mine is small, so I can't store very much in it. But I would love to have a big freezer in order to do something like this.
ReplyDeleteKati, I'd love to hear what you have to say about rice in freezer meals.
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