Pizza - Spelt Flour Crust

This was my first time making a spelt crust. I searched a couple vegetarian web sites and found a recipe on vegweb.com. The only ingredient I added to the original recipe was garlic salt.  

Pizza – Spelt Flour Crust

    3 cups spelt flour

    1/4 + cup cornmeal

    1 pkg yeast

    2 teaspoons agave or maple syrup

    1 teaspoon salt

    2 tablespoons olive oil

    1 cup water,

    thyme, oregano, basil dried or fresh to taste

    garlic salt  (optional)

            

 Topping:

    1  15 oz. can of pizza sauce ( I used Trader Joe’s)

         soy sausage (cook in oil then add to crust)

    1   red onion

    1   green or red pepper

         sliced mushrooms

         soy mozzarella cheese

    

Directions

Dough:

Dissolve yeast in 1 cup warm water with maple syrup. Set aside.

Mix spelt, 1/4 cup cornmeal, salt, dried herbs in bowl.  Add oil and yeast and mix well with hands.

Knead it for 5-10min. Thin coat oil on bowl and dough ball, cover with damp cloth. Set aside. Rise for at least 1 hour.

Assemble Pizza:  Preheat oven to 500 degrees.

Lightly oil square baking sheet, then dust with remaining cornmeal.

Stretch out dough to cover most of sheet. Place in hot oven for 2-4 minutes, take out .

Layer sauce, onions, peppers cheese & sausage.

Place back in oven for 4-6 minutes until crust is nicely browned.