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Freezing instructions included. Pizza dough is so easy and cheap to make at home. With just a few pantry ingredients, you’ll be rolling out your own pizza dough like a pro! The best part is, this recipe is made with nutritious white whole wheat flour. But unlike many whole wheat pizza dough recipes, it is still light and tasty. What ingredients do I need to make pizza dough? The ingredients in homemade pizza dough are simple. I bet you have most in your pantry already! Active dry yeast Sugar Olive Oil Honey Salt White whole wheat flour (or half all-purpose...

In Arabic, this “man’ouche” is known as “Banadoura w basal man’2oushe” which translates to tomato and onion flatbread. Manakeesh are a very popular Levantine dish consisting of a flatbread topped with a variety of possible toppings such as this tomato and onion mixture, za’atar herb mixture, cheese, or keshek. I shared my za’atar and cheese Manakeesh recipe last year and it proved to be quite popular, as it is actually the second most popular recipe on my blog! Almost every bakery in Lebanon starts selling them very early in the morning, as they are a very popular breakfast food. They...

You would never know this pizza dough was whole wheat! That’s partly because I cheated. I used half whole wheat flour. Does that make this half wheat pizza dough? No, it doesn’t. The “whole” in whole wheat refers to the use of the whole grain in the flour, as opposed to flour in which part of the grain has been removed, as is the case with white or all-purpose flour. In addition to whole wheat pastry flour, I used bread flour in my whole wheat pizza dough — that’s the non-whole wheat half. Let’s talk about why I chose each...