Quick Dough Dinner

Recipe by Rena Tuchinsky

Here’s your new favorite recipe to impress your family and feel like a total rock star in the kitchen, all while spending hardly any time preparing it! One quick and easy-to-prepare dough used three delicious ways. Bonus dessert included!

Serves 6

• 1 cup warm water
• 1 Tbsp instant dry yeast
• 1 egg
• 2 Tbsp oil
• 2½ cups flour
• 1 tsp sea salt

Deep-Dish Pizza

• olive oil, for drizzling
• 1 cups pizza sauce
• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

Cheesy Garlic Breadsticks

• ¼ cup olive oil
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 heaping Tbsp parsley flakes
• ¼ tsp salt
• shredded mozzarella cheese, for sprinkling

Cinnamon Sticks with Cream Cheese Dipping Sauce

• oil, for drizzling
• cinnamon and sugar, for sprinkling
• ⅓ cup cream cheese
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 4–6 Tbsp confectioners’ sugar
• 1–2 Tbsp milk

This quick dough recipe makes enough for one of the recipe options. If you want to make all three, triple the recipe.

Pour the warm water into a bowl. Add the yeast and mix to dissolve. Add the egg and oil, then add the flour and salt and mix until combined. Add more flour if necessary, but this will be a sticky dough.

Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).

To prepare the deep-dish pizza, use a 10-inch (26-cm) pan. For a thinner dough, use 2 9-inch (23-cm) pans.