Pizza: Base to oven

Technology makes your life lot easier! This saying goes very true in your work space, well in my case its the kitchen! Recently tried out kneading pizza dough in my Food Processor and it came out amazing and nothing less than a ' store bought ' base; or should I say its better! Try out this amazingly easy pizza dough and top it with your favourite pizza sauce and toppings.

Ingredients

• All purpose flour : 1.5 cups
• Warm water (not boiling) : 1/2 cup and a couple of tablespoons more
• Instant yeast : heaped 1/2 tsp
• Salt : 1/2 tsp
• Granulated Sugar : 1 tsp
• Olive oil : 1 tbspn

Method

1. Put all the ingredients except water to the processor and knead for minute so that all ingredients mix well with the flour
2. Gradually pour the measured warm water into the processor and keep kneading until it forms a soft dough and doesn't stick to your fingers
3. Brush the dough with some oil and allow it to rest in the processor for 45 mins
4. Take the dough and roll it to a large circular pizza and top it with your favourite sauces, veggies or meat and mozzarella

Method for barbecue chicken pizza

 Pre heat oven to 220 Degree Celsius

1. Place the rolled out dough on a pizza tray or use the base of a spring foam cake tin if you are a beginner so that your pizza gets a perfect shape. Trim out the edges.

2. Spread a generous amount of pizza sauce of choice. Here i used a mix of tomato paste and ready made barbecue sauce. Simply mix 1 tablespoon tomato paste with 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce.

3. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce




4. Add all preferred toppings (veg or non veg). Here I used some caramelized onions (check note below), bell peppers and chicken chunks in barbecue sauce.







5. Top it with generous amount of mozzarella




6. Pop it into the hot oven in the middle rack and cook for 10-15 minutes. Keep an eye on it after 10 minutes and bake till cheese is all melted and slightly bubbling

Note : Roll out the dough very thin if you want a thin crust pizza and keep it thick for a thick crust pizza. Both works out perfect. 

If you are adding chicken chunks to your pizza just marinate with chilli powder and salt and shallow fry it before adding to the pizza. This will give a nice flavour. You can also cook it with some salt then shred it and mix it with some barbecue sauce and arrange on your pizza . 
To caramelize the onion simply saute the onions in little olive oil and add half teaspoon brown sugar and keep sauteing on high flame until it changes colour.

Variation : If you want to substitute the all purpose flour with wheat to make a wheat pizza you can go for it. The ratio is 1/2 cup all purpose flour for 1 cup of wheat.

Suggestions for toppings

Diced White onions

Capsicums

Mushrooms

Sausages

Pepperoni

Meat chunks

Green/Black Olives

Tomatoes

Pizza with pepperoni and mozzarella

The Slice with pepperoni 

Chicken tikka (tikka recipe) and Mozzarella 

Hot from the oven

Topped with Mushrooms, olives, bell peppers and cheddar slices

Enjoy!!

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Happy Baking!!
Shabana