Thin-Crust Whole-Wheat Pizza with Pesto and Goat Cheese

Name: Thin-Crust Whole-Wheat Pizza with Pesto and Goat Cheese
Yield: Serves 4 to 6 (Makes two 13-inch pizzas)
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups (8 1/4 ounces), whole-wheat flour; 1 cup (5 1/2 ounces), bread flour; 2 teaspoons, honey; 3/4 teaspoon, instant or rapid-rise yeast; 1 1/4 cups, ice water; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 1 3/4 teaspoons, salt; 2 cups, fresh basil leaves; 7 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 1/4 cup, pine nuts; 3 , garlic cloves, minced; , Salt and pepper; 1/4 cup finely grated Parmesan or, Pecorino Romano cheese; 4 ounces, goat cheese, crumbled (1 cup)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2013

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SERVES4 to 6 (Makes two 13-inch pizzas)

TIME1½ hours, plus 19 hours resting

Thin-Crust Whole-Wheat Pizza with Pesto and Goat Cheese

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a pizza with balanced whole-wheat flavor, we used a combination of 60 percent whole-wheat flour and 40 percent bread flour. To ensure that this higher-than-normal ratio of whole-wheat to bread flour still produced a great crust, we incr...

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