Gluten free pizza dough

[Merlin]

Can anyone please help me with a fairly foolproof way of doing gluten free pizza dough in the TM? I am used to mixing dough in my kitchen aid mixer and being a new TM owner and also coeliac I want to know if there is a way of converting this to the thermomix, particularly as I have young children and we love to make our own pizzas and toppings. 

[CreamPuff63]

merlin, have you seen the Pizza Dough recipe on p111 of EDC? Maybe you could convert your recipe using this as a guide?

[Merlin]

Thanks for the info. Will try. I guess the beauty of having such a great machine is that we get to experiment with all kinds of things and it is all part of the fun if we stuff it up!!!!

[Meagan]

Thanks for the info. Will try. I guess the beauty of having such a great machine is that we get to experiment with all kinds of things and it is all part of the fun if we stuff it up!!!!

Do you use a premix in the KA Merlin? What is the recipe you use at the moment?

[Merlin]

Yes, I either use the Woolworths Freefrom Pizza dough mix or make my own with GF plain flour/ yeast etc. I have tried my normal ratios of flour/water etc in the TM and it doesn't seem to work as well. I thought somebody might have a more reliable recipe using particular quanitities of flour/water/yeast etc. The GF plain flour mix I use is just one of the commercial ones eg White Wings or FG Roberts etc.

[Meagan]

Strange that is doesn't work in the tm but does in the ka. Are you combining on 6 for 5-10 sec and kneading for 1-2 mins? What isn't working? Is it sticky or crumbly? Have you converted the measurements to weights in the tm? If so make sure you are still using teaspoons or tablespoons as the scales aren't precise enough for really small quantities like tea spoons.

[Depome]

Merlin, my disclaimer is that I've never made a GF pizza base, and certainly not therefore in the TMX. However, I have found that I need to use less water when I make any doughs in the TMX as the blades contribute to so much more mess to clean up! My base recipes are Panasonic breadmaker recipes, which are pretty darn good, but aren't designed to be handled of course. So when I first got my TMX I said 'great, I'll make my usual pizza dough in the TMX instead, and my bread recipe' but it just didn't work out right. They are too wet, and that means a fairly sticky mess to remove from the blades etc in the TMX.

You can't really overwork your pizza dough in the TMX, since any extra working that it gets probably negates the need to rest it. So try adding half the quantity of water, then drizzle the rest in slowly until you like the look of the dough, IF 'too moist' is your problem.

[~ - Jules - ~]

I've made this in the thermomix before http://glutenfree.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/gf-wrap-sandwich-success/ (never 100% perfected the conversion hence not posting it), but aside from being really tasty as a "bread" it makes a brilliant pizza base

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks Jules, I was just about to look this up to link it.

I've made this in the thermomix before http://glutenfree.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/gf-wrap-sandwich-success/ (never 100% perfected the conversion hence not posting it), but aside from being really tasty as a "bread" it makes a brilliant pizza base

Merlin, I've made this before and it's lovely. Keep planning to make some GF Pizza bases out of it, but haven't gotten there yet. But it would be lovely. Bake it first of course, then add your pizza topping