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Making pizza inhome is really fun and interesting as well as healthy too. We can adapt any pizza recipe to our own taste. Here is an easy recipe for making pizza.| Ingredients-1 | |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | Warm water |
| 2 cup | All purpose flour |
| 1 tsp | Olive oil |
| 1 tsp | Sugar |
| ½ tsp | Salt |
| 1 tsp | Dry yeast |
| Ingredients-2 | |
|---|---|
| 1 tsp | Olive oil |
| ¼ cup | Onion (finely chopped) |
| 1 tsp | Garlic (finely minced) |
| 3 no | Tomatoes (grape) |
| 2 tsp | Italian seasoning |
| ½ tsp | Salt |
| ¼ tsp | Black pepper powder |
| 1 can | Tomato paste |
| 1 tsp | Butter |
| Ingredients-3 | |
|---|---|
| 1 no | Onion (cut lengthwise) |
| 1 no | Capsicum (cut lenthwise) |
| ½ cup | Chicken |
| ½ cup | Shredded cheese |
| 1 tsp | Olive oil |
Instructions
Mix warm water, dry yeast, salt and sugar (from table-1) in a bowl. Mix it with a spoon till the solid ingredients gets dissolved completely and let it rest for 10 mins.
Then add a teaspoon of olive oil to it.
Now gradually add this mix to the flour and knead with your hands to form a soft dough.
Coat the dough with Olive oil and cover it with a plastic bag and let it sit for an hour at room temperature to double in size.
Push it down with your fist to deflate it, cover it and let it sit for an another hour.
Again the dough would have doubled in size.
Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and stretch it with your hands to form a pie shape about 1/4" thick. No need to knead the dough. Try making rim on the outer edge, if you can.
Cover it and let it sit for an another hour (actually I forgot this step). Now the base is ready. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 400'F for 30 mins.
For making sauce, first peel the tomatoes and grind it to make a puree from it. Heat oil in a skillet and saute the chopped onions and garlic for 2 mins. Then add the tomato puree, store bought tomato paste, italian seasoning and stir for 2 mins. Season with salt and pepper. Bring it to a boil and simmer for five mins. Then add the butter piece and switch it off when the butter is half melted. Stir thoroughly to blend all together.
Now transfer the dough to the baking tray and spread the sauce on the dough within 1" from the outer edge.
Spread the onions on top of the sauce.
Spread the capsicum on top of onion.
Spread the chicken on top of capsicum. Fried Chicken – Cut the chicken into bite size pieces and Marinate with 1/2 tsp red chilli powder, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1/4 tsp salt and 1 tsp lime juice for half an hour and fry it in a tsp of oil.
Spread shredded cheese and drizzle a teaspoon of olive oil on top of all.
Now keep the tray in the middle rack of the oven and bake for 20 mins or until the outer edge turns brown.
After 20 mins, switch off the oven and let it cool for 10 mins. Now the pizza is ready to eat.
This one i tried for the third time and turned out pretty good. The only difference is, I baked the base for couple of minutes before baking with toppings.
Comments
25 responses to “Pizza”
hi,
Thanks for the gr8 recipe.
Can we prepare the pizza till the step to adding toppings & cheese, refriegerate it for an hr & bake it for dinner time?
I have a small kid & I can’t even enter kitchen when she is around. So I cook when she is asleep.
But ur recipe is tempting.
Pls let me know.
Priya
Priya & Sugan,
I am not sure abt it, please check with Mullai. Even I have a small kid, couldnt find time at all to browse spice 🙂
Mercy
hi,
thanks for ur step by step procedure.
can we store these prepared bases if so hw?
hav prepard pizza with shop bought base but nw gonna prepare with my own base.
addn of oregano to the sauce gives good flavor
sugan
Hi Sugan,
yes, we can freeze the base, it works fine, also u can freeze with topping too. if u r making fresh, bake the base first for couple of minutes and then the rest. i have put a pic for the second.
Mercy
Hi Mercy, I tried ur pizza receipe & it turned out very nice. Really ur pictures & step by step instructions r superb. Great job. Thanx for the receipe. Bye Mohana kumaran
Hi Mercy,
superb…my small cousins had fun decorating their own pizza last weekend, and all of them turned out soooooooooooo good. Thank you for this wonderful receipe.
KriShanthy
Hi Merchy,
Really super recipe. step by step pic. Let me know we get mozella cheese and Italian seasoning. I plan to try this weekend..
Thanks
Tara
You can get these from any grocery store or supermarket. You can prepare Italian seasoning on your own also (1 teaspoon of dried basil, dried marjoram, dried oregano and 1/2 tsp dried sage).
Mercy
Very nice step by step instructions.Thanks
hi
I don’t have a oven, can i do it in electric rice cooker or any other way to bake, if you have pl. share with me
Thanks
Sorry Amudha, I really dont know and have no idea. I have heard that we can bake cake in pressure cooker, but am not sure about pizza.
Mercy
HI Mercyusha
Really ur recipe is very clear and well presented. I have store bought pizza base..lemme try ur topping recipe and will let u know by this weekend..Thanx once again
Sadhana Raveen
Thanks Sadhana.
Mercy
wow Mercy!!looks very appetizing..i want to grab a bite 🙂
Enna solla??? As usual Simply SUPERB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At shops we wont get pizza with lot chicken & other stuff… Home made means you can add as much as you want.. specially i like more sides… wish i have someone to bake it for me :(:(:(
Hi,
Good work.. Actually i dont like tomato sauce in pizza.. can i avoid tomato sauce.
Thanks
saritha
I have never tasted pizza before as I dont like it. I tried this for the first time for my hubby. I haven't seen pizza without tomato sauce. Anyways, if you wanna try, try with some other sweet and sour gravy of your choice.
Mercy
very nice presentation…Thank u.
May I know why you avoided Mozerella cheese , which gives those stringy pizza pieces?
No particular reason behind that. This is just the basic recipe for making pizza. You can adapt this recipe to your own taste.
Mercy
Nice step by step guide and illustration with pics. Feel like eating pizza. Thanks!
Perfect!! looks awesome, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Mullai.
Hi
I have been really wanting to do one at home. Thanks a lot. I will try and let you know .
Jaya
Lemme know for sure. Thanks for dropping in your comment.
Mercy