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Dough makes 2 pizzas, so to make one, divide it in half and let one half sit out for 1/2 hour to get to room temperature.
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Preheat oven with pizza stone (or pan) in it, to 425F.
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Sauce: Remove tomatoes from can, setting liquid aside.
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Put tomatoes and tomato paste in food processor or blender, process briefly to make a chunky tomato sauce.
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Saute onion, garlic in olive oil until tender, add basil, cilantro, oregano and cayenne.
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Put tomato sauce in a saucepan and add onion mixture to it.
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Simmer while preparing dough.
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Remove from pan to a pyrex dish and let cool while crust is pre-cooking.
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Crust: Prepare countertop for rolling out dough by sprinkling wheat bran on it.
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Roll dough into a ball and then roll the ball in the wheat bran.
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Use rolling pin to flatten ball into a round shape, then roll dough out to a very thin crust.
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Sprinkle more wheat bran on dough if it is sticky.
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Pick up and stretch dough occasionally, to get the crust to desired size and make crust very thin.
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Remove hot pizza stone from oven and carefully lift dough and place on hot stone.
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Cut around edges to remove excess dough--save that with the other dough for your next pizza.
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Pre-cook crust until slightly browned, around 6-8 minutes.
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Dough may puff up, that is ok, just gently press down onto stone before adding sauce.
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Topping: Remove crust from oven,spread tomato sauce on top to 1/2 inch from edge of crust.
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Put one layer of spinach leaves over sauce.
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Then cover with shredded cheese.
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Place remaining toppings on top of the cheese, red peppers, chicken sausage, Jalapeno, red onion slices.
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Put pizza back in oven, and cook till cheese is melted and browning, about 8-10 minutes.
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Use pizza cutter to serve.
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Garnish pizza slices with hot red peppers (for super spicy) and/or parmesan cheese.
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***IMPORTANT*** Pre-cooking the crust is essential to the success of this recipe.
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Otherwise the whole wheat dough won't cook through.
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Pre-cooking makes the crust as crisp as a cracker!
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Also -- by placing the spinach topping between the tomato sauce and the cheese -- it actually steams to perfection while you are baking the pizza.
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You will love this healthy pizza!
