WholeGrain Pizza Recipe Please

[Anonymous]

My kids love Pizza. They would like to eat every meal if they can. I am a good cook, but do not cook Pizza at home. The frozen and take-out kind makes me feel very guilty everytime I serve them to my kids. Can someone suggest a healthy (preferably whole grain) pizza recipe that can be made at home please.

[Anonymous]

We have tried every recipe and trick we could find for years, but it basically boils down to this: pizza appears to be the one food we just cannot switch to whole grain. We are whole grain on pretty much everything else, but we spring for traditional pizza dough.

Oddly, Trader Joe's whole wheat dough was among the better we tried during our exploration.

[Anonymous]

PP here: I should add that we feel guilty for not going whole grain, so we usually add spinach between layers of cheese to "hide" it from DD, who now gets a good serving of spinach every time we have pizza. Makes us feel a little better.

[Anonymous]

I agree with PP. The TJ's whole wheat dough is the only wheat dough we've tried. It tasted so gross, so if PP says that it was the best out there... that's say something. It's just dry and tasteless. I am also someone who tries to use whole grains with everything.

OP, if you are eating pizza frequently (like more than once a week), maybe you could try making pizzas on wheat english muffins, wheat pitas, wheat flatbreads, or something like that...

[Anonymous]

If you make your own pizza dough, you could sub 1/4 - 1/3 of the all purpose flour with whole wheat flour, but I would probably not do more beyond that.

I've found, btw, that the whole wheat crust at Home Made Pizza Co to be not bad.

[Anonymous]

Buy the King Arthur white whole wheat flour, and start by subbing in half for the all purpose flour. Mark Bittman has an easy and quick dough recipe that uses the food processor to make the dough. I can post it later if people like. I use that instead of dragging out the bread machine.