Ŧhe Spëlt Pizźa

The Bodamite and I are pretty big fans of pizza.  Even to the point of eating gluten filled piece after gluten filled piece, to the point of regret. That has only happened once or twice and I wasn't actually involved, my Bodamite had a brief moment of "I don't care if I get glutemated, I want it, I'll sleep it off." Self control is generally our strong point, but we still falter sometimes.

Preparing the Chicken

So, while we were in Pawleys Island, for my birthday weekend, the pizza craving reared it's ugly head. It didn't matter that it was almost nine o'clock at night or that we had to stop by the store for some of the ingredients. We were going to make pizza!

We used Spelt Flour to avoid glutemation. This recipe is super easy.


Ingredients for dough

3 c. Spelt Flour
1 tsp. Salt
1 tbsp. Olive oil
1 packet Dry Active Yeast

We dissolved ours in a measuring cup

To start, dissolve the yeast in 1 c. of hot water. Follow directions on back of Yeast packet, it's very simple. It will take about ten minutes for the yeast to dissolve.

When the yeast has dissolved, combine it with the Spelt flour, salt, and olive oil in a bowl and get to mixing.

It is important to note: You are suppose to let the dough sit for about an hour so the yeast can work it's magic. We neglected this step..oops!  So I honestly am not sure if the yeast is necessary if you choose to forge ahead as we did.

Place the dough on a pizza pan or a cookie sheet. We had neither. I'm still not sure what kind of "pan" it was, but it did the trick.

This part if fun. Shape the dough into a circle or square or even a rectangle, like ours. It is completely up to you what shape your pizza is.

We used Italian sausage pasta sauce on our pizza.

For the toppings on our pizza we went with sauteėd onions, mushrooms, and zucchini, as well as sauteėd  lemon pepper chicken. We topped that with fresh spinach and shredded cheddar cheese.

Ingredients for toppings

1 container mushrooms- chopped
1 small onion - diced
1 large zucchini - sliced
2 chicken thighs - chopped into chunks
1 bag spinach
shredded cheddar cheese
lemon pepper seasoning

Coat the bottom of a medium to large size skillet with olive oil. Add the mushrooms, onions, and zucchini and sauteė on medium/high heat until the onion is translucent. You let the veggies go a bit longer is you want them caramelized. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Hein, the Bodamite's co-worker
added some chicken sausage
to the pizza.
 It was a yummy addition

For the chicken you do basically the same thing. First you have to prep the chicken, though. We cut the chicken into medium chunks and added lots of lemon pepper seasoning. Then we sauteėd the chicken in a large skillet until fully cooked and tender. As always, coat the bottom of your skillet with olive oil before you add the chicken.

When all of your ingredients are cooked and ready to go you can assemble your pizza!

You can see how we assembled our pizza, in the picture.
Sauce then veggies and then the meat. We topped all of that goodness with spinach and the shredded cheddar cheese.

The pizza needs the cook for 15 to 20 minutes.

It turned out to be the most amazing pizza we had ever eaten! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Happy Eating!

We ate the entire thing!