Pizza tales
So I offered on Sunday to make a gluten free alternative to take away pizza tonight for our young-people-get-together thingamy doova (we hate the word "Youth"). Of all of us I can count 6 who are gluten-intolerant or fully-blown coeliacs so it's kinda necessary.
So I thought I'd just stroll down to Woolies and pick up gluten-free pizza mix.
No such luck.
I ended up finding an American recipe for gluten-free pizza dough when I googled it. (seriously, I googled "gluten free pizza dough recipe" and got about 50 sites) The only problem was that it included ingredients like Tapioca flour and Xanthan gum. I'd never even heard of xanthan gum except when I'm really bored and reading the back of lolly packets. Anyway, I thought I'd wing it and pick up some gluten-free self-raising flour and gelatin and powdered milk. You know, the usual stuff.
Got home and whinged to Mum that I couldn't find all these obscure ingredients and she said, "oh yeah, I've got that, and that."
Trust Mum to have all the right stuff.
Oh and by the way, Xanthan gum is this powdery stuff that's meant to hold food together or something.
So the full ingredient list was:
gluten-free sr flour
brown rice flour (good alternative to tapioca flour)
gelatin
powdered milk
salt
olive oil
water
Once I mixed up my "dry-run" last night it equalled one sticky mess.
So I bunged the sticky mess in the oven for 10 minutes and voila! I had one pizza crust (nicely browned at the edges.)
Yay for Google.
So I thought I'd just stroll down to Woolies and pick up gluten-free pizza mix.
No such luck.
I ended up finding an American recipe for gluten-free pizza dough when I googled it. (seriously, I googled "gluten free pizza dough recipe" and got about 50 sites) The only problem was that it included ingredients like Tapioca flour and Xanthan gum. I'd never even heard of xanthan gum except when I'm really bored and reading the back of lolly packets. Anyway, I thought I'd wing it and pick up some gluten-free self-raising flour and gelatin and powdered milk. You know, the usual stuff.
Got home and whinged to Mum that I couldn't find all these obscure ingredients and she said, "oh yeah, I've got that, and that."
Trust Mum to have all the right stuff.
Oh and by the way, Xanthan gum is this powdery stuff that's meant to hold food together or something.
So the full ingredient list was:
gluten-free sr flour
brown rice flour (good alternative to tapioca flour)
gelatin
powdered milk
salt
olive oil
water
Once I mixed up my "dry-run" last night it equalled one sticky mess.
So I bunged the sticky mess in the oven for 10 minutes and voila! I had one pizza crust (nicely browned at the edges.)
Yay for Google.