With pizza.
It’s also vegan, made with whole-wheat flour, and bakes in a skillet with no kneading and no fuss. The dough comes together in one bowl in minutes, and the bread is ready in 30 minutes. Sold yet?
Last week Gaby invited some San Diego-area bloggers out to lunch to celebrate the release of her new cookbook, Absolutely Avocados. The recipes are creative and fun, Gaby’s writing is easy-breezy and a joy to read, the photography is stunning, and the book is just wonderful. Two thumbs up. Reading all those avocado recipes got my wheels turning and I came up with this.
I took advantage of the natural, plant-based healthy fats found in avocado, skipped any butter in the dough, and added just two tablespoons of oil for this big slab ‘ole pizza bread. Between the seasonings and the cheese, the avocado and sour cream, it’s dense, cheesy, and packed with savory flavor.
Avocado, sour cream, buttermilk, and cheese (use vegan ingredients if desired) keep the bread soft, chewy, and very moist. It’s so moist that when I placed it on the cooling rack after baking, it released a few tablespoons of water onto the counter. That’s some moist bread. If you’re looking for thin and crispy, dry, light and airy, this isn’t that.
The whole wheat flour adds extra chewiness, texture, and an earthier, nuttier flavor that comes with whole wheat flour. I love the taste and health benefits of whole wheat flour but it can be tricky to get to rise properly because is has less gluten. However, it’s perfect in dough that it’s okay if it stays flatter and denser, like Whole Wheat Pizza Dough, Honey Whole Wheat Skillet Bread, or this bread.
If you like cheese bread, pizza, or are already an avocado fan, all the bases are covered here. If you’re not an avocado fan, you’re still in luck because the avocado flavor is hardly noticeable. It adds creaminess, richness, moisture, and softness.
The pizza bread would be great served with a side of guacamole (I ran out of ripe avocados), sour cream, salsa, pico de gallo. And when all else fails, my 6 year old dipped hers in ketchup. So many bases covered in one recipe. Pizza, bread, cheese, avocado. We were fans.
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How do you enjoy avocados? What do you like to make in your skillet?
