Sunday, January 10, 2010

HOme made Vegetarian Pizza - Simple method


HOme made Pizza - Simple method

Ingredients :

To make the base :

all purpose flour(maida flour) - 2 cup
dry yeast - 1 spoon
sugar - 1/2 spoon
olive oil - 2 spoon
water needed

To make the toppings :

bell pepper - 2
(you can have small bell peppers in different colour.it will give good look.kids will like to see.If you are in US you can get the mixed colour bell peppers in costco.it is around 2.50 $)

onion(big) - 2
garlic - 4 pods
mushroom - 2
olives - 10
jalepeno pepper - 6
pineapple - 5 pieces( optional)
tomato -4
you can add vegetables as per your wish

(olives,jalepeno is available in small bottles each cost 1.25$ and small packet shredded cheese for pizza is $1.99 and dry yeast is 3 small packets for $1.1 in walmart.you can use this for 3 times.)

procedure :

to make base :

mix the flour with 1 spoon salt and 3 spoon olive oil.
in 1/4 cup of luke warm water add 1/2 spoon sugar and 1 spoon yeast.mix it.keep it for 10 mins.it will raise.
add this water to the flour and mix it.
make the dough as that for chapathi by adding water as needed.
cover this with wet cloth and wait for 1 hour.
after 1 hour the flour will raise to double.
take it out and mix.again keep it for 1 hour.
take out and this is the base for pizza.

To make toppings :

you can use pizza sauce available at walmart for $1.50 or
you can simply made it as below.
in a kadai add oil.
cut 2 tomatoes and 1 onion and fry them in oil
cool it and grind it.this is your pizza sauce.
cut the remaining onion,tomato and bell peppers lengthwise.
in a kadai add oil.
fry the oinion, tomato,and bell peppers.add the garlic pods.
no need to fry for long.just to get rid the raw smell.
add a pinch of garam masala and chilli powder.
this is the topping.

in a pizza pan apply a liitle olive oil.
(you can get the pizza pan even in dollar store for one dollar)
make the dough into a big ball.
using rolling pin roll it like making chapathi.

apply the pizza sauce over it.
then put the topping we made using onion,bell pepper and tomato.
then add the olives,mushroom,jalepeno,pinaapple pieces and the cheese to it.

if u want you can add the pudhina leaves too.

preheat oven to 400 degree for 10 mins.
then keep the pizza in the oven for 20 mins at 400 degree.
check the base.if it is pale brown colour then it is done.
otherwise keep it for 5 more mins.
Eat and enjoy at home.

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