Dough for Pita, Pizza, or Empanadas
We like the Trader Joes Sprouted Whole-Grain Pizza Crust for this homemade pizza , but I wanted to make my own for a Greek meza (photos below) with Yannis, Merche, John, & Elsa. Mom made homemade bread all the time, but I've never made a yeast dough. Judi says it's easy; Nick makes dough for their pizzas all the time. Natalie did a science fair experiment and found that adding sugar, honey, or maple syrup to the wet yeast made it rise more. Judi says her favorite dough is whole wheat flour with a little maple syrup. So that's what I tried here, while mostly following the recipe for Roberta's Pizza Dough , which is surprisingly similar to this greek pita recipe . We made pizza the greek way with red onion, capers, oregano, and kalamata olives, and Yannis brought feta. We also had a meza of stewed okra in tomato sauce, greek fava hummus, and stuffed eggplant , which we ate with pita made from the dough. I used the leftovers to make empanadas with the l