Auntie's Pizza Dough

A dieting doesn't mean you have to do without all your favorite foods it just means you have to cook your own food this "Auntie's Pizza Dough" recipe is absolutely delicious. Try it the next time you want a pizza.

Ingredients 

1½ cups All Purpose Flour 

1 tablespoon dry active yeast

½ teaspoon kosher or fine sea salt

½ teaspoon agave nectar, sugar or honey

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

2/3 cup tap water (around 110 degrees is perfect)

Directions

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   1. Pour 2/3 cup warm water into small bowl; stir in yeast. 
   1. Let stand until yeast dissolves, about 5 minutes.
   1. Brush large bowl lightly with olive oil. 
   1. Mix 1 1/2 cups flour, sugar, and salt in processor. 
   1. Add yeast mixture and 3 tablespoons oil; process until dough forms a sticky ball. 
   1. Transfer to lightly floured surface. 
   1. Knead the dough until smooth, adding more flour by tablespoonfuls if dough is very sticky, about 1 minute. 
   1. Transfer to prepared bowl; turn dough in bowl to coat with oil. 
   1. Cover bowl with a dish towel and let dough rise in warm draft-free area until doubled in volume, about 1 hour. 
   1. Hit down dough. 
   1. Rolling out the dough according to recipe instructions. 
   1. Start in center of dough, working outward toward edges but not rolling over them.

Spicy Chicken and Kielbasa Couscous

Try this delicious and flavorful Spicy Chicken and Kielbasa Couscous recipe. It is absolutely perfect for a cold night in the winter.  

Ingredients

1/2 pound kielbasa,  sliced into ½-inch pieces
1 stalks celery, sliced
2 large onions, thinly sliced
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup couscous
1 large orange, yellow, or green pepper, cut into strips
1 stalks celery, sliced2 large carrots, thinly sliced2 cups chicken broth1 cup couscous

1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts sliced into ½-inch pieces

2 1/3 cup chicken broth

1/4 teaspoon cumin

1/4 teaspoon coriander

3 teaspoons tomato paste

1/4 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes

2 tablespoons butter

1 medium onion, thinly sliced

1    3-inch cinnamon stick

1 Tablespoon cornstarch

Directions

Rinse chicken, pat dry.  Cut into bite-size strips and set aside.

In a large skillet brown and stir the chicken and kielbasa.

In a heavy saucepan cook the onion in 1 tablespoon of the butter over moderately low heat, stirring, until it is softened, add the turmeric and the red pepper flakes, and cook the mixture, stirring, for 2 minutes.

In a crock pot peppers, celery, carrots, tomato paste, broth, chicken, kielbasa, and cinnamon stick, coriander, cumin cover and cook on low heat 6 to 8 hours.

Strain off 1 1/3 cups of the broth into a medium saucepan, add the remaining 1 tablespoon butter, and bring the mixture to a boil.   

Stir in couscous; cover remove from heat.  

Let stand while thickening the sauce mixture.

Combine the 1 cup chicken broth and cornstarch, stir into crock pot.

Increase your crock pot heat to medium heat and stir in the broth and cornstarch mixture slowly, until the sauce is thick and bubbly turn off crock pot.

Fluff couscous with a fork.  

Serve chicken mixture over couscous. 

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