Home made Veg Pizza

Ingredients:
For Pizza Base
All Purpose Flour:-2 cups
Dry yeast:-2 gm (1/3rd of small sachet)
Salt:-1/2 tsp
Sugar:-1/4 tsp
For Pizza Sauce
Tomato Puree:-4 tbsp(Or Ketchup)
Olive oil:-3 tbsp
Dried oregano,dried basil powders:-1/4 tsp each
Coriander Powder:-1/2 tsp
Chopped Corinader leaves:-2 tbsp
Salt:-As per taste
For toppings:
Onions
Tomatoes
Capsicum(yellow,green,red,orange)
Green chillies/Jalepenos
Olives
Grated Mozerella Cheese
METHOD:
  • Take a 1/2 cup luke warm water/milk and dissolve salt,yeast,sugar in it.Be careful not to dissolve yeast in hot water,for it will die.Use only lukewarm water.
  • Add in the flour and little oil and make a smooth dough.
  • Coat it with little oil and let it rest in a warm place(preferably oven,take care not to switch on the oven :-) )
  • Dough becomes double its size in an hour.Then punch it down to remove the aeration and leave to rest for 2 hrs.
  • Mean while prepare the pizza sauce.Heat little oil in a pan and add tomato puree and all the spice powders and salt to taste.
  • Let it cook for 5-8 min and add chopped coriander and mix well.
  • Cook till u get a thick sauce consistency.
  • After 2 hrs,again punch down the dough a bit and spread it to form the base thick or thin as per the choice.
  • Take a fork and punch the base so that the base absorbs the pizza sauce.
  • Spread the pizza sauce and the toppings as per choice.
  • Spread the grated cheese and add littleoil on top of pizza.
  • Preheat the oven at 375 and bake the pizza till the cheese melts to a beautiful golden colour.
  • Heat a tawa and transfer the pizza on to it and cook for 5 min on medium flame to get a crispy pizza base and to let the underneath cooked.
  • Serve hot with ketchup.

3 comments:

Pooja March 16, 2009 10:43 PM  

Just looking like a store bought one....Yummy..

Trupti March 19, 2009 7:26 AM  

Pizza looks mouthwatering

Divya Vikram April 10, 2009 12:45 PM  

Great that u made the pizza from scratch! Wish i had a piece right now!

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