Ages ago I bought Quinoa flour at Whole Foods Market in High Street Kensington. That was a week after I bought a 500 gr Quinoa bread and gasped when I was asked to handle 7 pounds for it. 11 dollars for a piece of bread, isn’t it blasphemy?
Anyhow, it was MY fault. I acted in breach of the rule number one for the smart shopping in Whole Foods Market: always check the price tag first.
When I came back to the crime scene not only I had learnt that a 7 pounds loaf doesn’t taste better than any other mortal bread, I had also recovered from the shock and grown the idea to get a cheaper Quinoa bread by baking it myself, from scratch at home. Revenge.
A pack of Quinoa flour, water, yeast and salt would do the magic, I thought. It would also compensate for the wrong purchase. But the plan did not go exactly as expected. A pack of 500 gr of Quinoa from Bolivia distributed by DbaFoods costed me 6 pounds.
At the end of the day I saved 1 pound but needed more ingredients and time to get to the final product. Which, to be honest, I baked at the best of my culinary skills and yet disliked it more than the fancy “7 pounds bread”!
The precious and prized sack of Quinoa from the Andes of South America, stayed quiet in the cupboard for a few months. Meantime I stopped baking bread. The poor cereal was going to face sure death when I magnanimously gave it a new chance of life by substituting it for a little less than a half of the all-purpose flour in my pizza dough recipe.
The Quinoa mixed with the whole flour did not contribute with the pungent yeasty taste that made me disapprove the deluxe bread. I loved this wholesome pizza and made it twice last week. I managed to pack my pizza with vitamins and other nutrients Quinoa is rich with. Redemption, eventually.
Whole Wheat and Quinoa Flour Pizza Dough
- 2 cups organic whole wheat flour
- 1 cup quinoa flour
- 2 tsp honey or agave nectar
- 2 tsp dry active yeast
- 1 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 tsp salt
- Pour water into a bowl and add yeast and honey. Let mixture stand for 5 minutes. In a bigger bowl add the flours, salt and mix (I used a wooden spoon) until a coarse dough forms.
- Knead until you get a smooth and uniform dough.
- Shape into a ball and leave in the bowl covered with a wet towel. Let it rise for at least 1 hour. If not using right away wrap with plastic wrap then freeze.
At what temperature and amount of time do you cook this?
thank you so much for your recipe.. i wanted a “healthy” pizza and this totally fit the bill.. i googled how to make quinoa flour (toasted a combo of quinoa and kaniwa in a pan for 5 mins and then threw it in my coffee grinder).. the amounts of the ingredients varied due to what i had on hand.. 1/3 c quinoa/kaniwa flour, 1/4 c soy flour, 3/4 c whole wheat flour, 1&2/3 c all purpose flour(to equal 3 c), 1 packet of active dry yeast, 1 tsp of honey(personal pref).. but followed the rest of the recipe.. i added 2 T garlic seasoned parm and 1 T italian seasoning.. topped with homeamde marinara and munster cheese.. we so enjoyed this.. thanks again for sharing
I dint find quinoa flour at all.. Looks like I should try more and try this pizza… crust is too good.. I love pizza!! Nice clicks
Gorgeous pizza! Do you deliver? 😉
This pizza crust looks divine — i need to get my hands on quinoa flour soon!!
There’s an appropriate term coined for Whole Foods Market — Whole Paycheck 😉
Looks so good!!! 🙂
I was just looking for quinoa flour at Whole Foods this weekend, but ours didn’t have it! Now I’m really going to have to find it because this crust looks amazing!
Thanks Kiersten. It’s not easy to find this flour indeed!
ah, quinoa flour is so expensive… but I bet it’s worth the taste in this pizza!I love the toppings you used!
Thanks so much for sharing this!
I love quinoa, so cannot wait to find quinoa flour so I can try this recipe out!