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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Pour the two packets of pizza dough mix into a large mixing bowl. Add the water and mix with a fork until a ball forms. Ignore the package directions and do the following: cover with a damp towel and set in a warm place for 15 minutes, allowing the dough to rise a bit. | 2. Preheat the oven to 450-degrees F. | 3. After the dough his risen, spray a 16-inch (or 18-inch) pizza pan with the cooking spray (I use an olive oil spray) and place the dough ball in the center. Wash your hands and rub the 1 teaspoon of olive oil on them -- work the pizza dough out toward the edges. TAKE YOUR TIME! When this is accomplished, place the pizza dough in the preheated oven for 8-9 minutes until there is some VERY SLIGHT BROWNING here and there on the dough. Remove it from the oven and allow it to cool for 3-4 minutes so you can work the sauce on to it without burning your hands. | 4. Once you have the sauce on the pizza, sprinkle on the sliced olives and any other toppings you wish, (such as cooked sausage, banana peppers, etc., but NOT the pepperoni). Then, cover the pizza evenly with the cheeses. Cover the pizza with the pepperoni slices and sprinkle the basil all over the pizza. | 5. Return the pizza to the 450-degree F. oven, on the rack just below the center, for about 10 more minutes, until you just get some slight browning on the cheese. Remove from the oven and slice with a pizza cutter. Wait 2 minutes before plating up the pizza. | 6. NOTE: This makes a super covered dish if you get the pizza ready for the final baking and then do the final baking on-site. Cut it into 2-inch squares for this. I like to take 2 or 3 pizzas along for this as you'll see that it disappears much faster then the entree dish! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
pizza dough mix	13	ounces		327.8167	0.0	72.93	1.8417
pepperoni	4	ounces	sliced	571.2	1.3373	21.8167	52.4507
pizza sauce	8	ounces		122.4698	19.6405	4.9442	2.6082
mozzarella cheese	4	ounces	shredded	367.4094	30.8669	15.3768	20.2642
monterey jack cheese	4	ounces	shredded	327.8167	0.0	72.93	1.8417
parmesan cheese	2	ounces	grated	209.7862	22.6796	22.6796	2.8349
black olive	12		canned pitted sliced	327.8167	0.0	72.93	1.8417
extra virgin olive oil	1	teaspoon		327.8167	0.0	72.93	1.8417
tap water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
basil leaf	1	teaspoon	dried sweet	327.8167	0.0	72.93	1.8417
cooking spray				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.