Gluten Free Pizza

I'm back to start posting recipes! My baby is 10 months and we are finally in a bigger home after selling ours and living with friends. I use recipes as guides and rarely follow them exactly. I recently starting using Pinterest and came across this gluten free pizza crust recipe from recreating happiness. In parenthesis is what I did differently. The recipe is for one pizza crust.

• 1 cup warm water
• 1 package rapid rise yeast or yeast made for pizza
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ¾ cup white rice flour
• ¾ cup brown rice flour (I just used more white rice flour)
• ⅔ cup potato starch
• ⅓ cup tapioca starch
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum (next time I will try to omit this). 
• 1-2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon gelatin (I used 2 tsp and I used unflavored gelatin by great lakes) 
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons oil (I used 3 Tablespoons of olive oil) 

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees 
2. Prepare your pizza pan: I have a nonstick pan that was starting to get scratched so I cut a piece of parchment paper to fit, it makes for easy clean up. Or you can spray your pan with nonstick spray, or grease it lightly, and then dust lightly with rice flour or corn meal. (I used a pampered chef pizza stone for one pizza and an 11x13 pan and GASP I used pam spray) 
3. In mixing bowl combine water, yeast, and sugar. Allow to proof.
4. Meanwhile in small bowl whisk together flours, starches, xanthan gum, salt, gelatin, and garlic powder.
5. Once yeast mixture is proofed, turn on mixer to low speed and add egg and oil. Allow to mix for a moment, and then slowly add in flour mixture.
6. Mix on medium speed for 1 minute. Your dough will not be thick and stretchy like gluten pizza dough nor will it be quite as thin as muffin batter. It’s somewhere in between and it’s sticky (Mine was not sticky)
7. Scoop out the dough on to your pizza pan.
8. Using rice floured hands, press the dough down and out to form your crust. Sprinkle the dough and your hands with rice flour as needed. (my dough was not sticky so I did not need to use rice flour hands) and press or use roller to shape your pizza dough to the pan or stone. 
9. If you have time, cover with plastic wrap and a dish towel, and allow to rise for 15-20 minutes in a warm place. I’ve skipped this step before when short on time with good results but it does have a slightly better texture when allowed to rise.
10. After rising 20 minutes, Brush with olive oil and place in oven for 10 minutes. (I forgot this step on the first pizza but it still turned out fine)
11. Remove from oven, add toppings, and place back in to the oven for another 15 -20 minutes or until the crust turns golden brown.

Read more: http://recreatinghappiness.com/dinner-recipes/gluten-free-pizza-crust-recipe/#ixzz2quNJr8FZ

I copied and pasted this from recreating happiness, changing a few of the words. The picture of the pizza is my own.