Sunday 22 May 2011

Pizza

Ingredients 
    For the Pizza base and Topping
  • 2 Cups All-purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Ajwain
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning or Parsley or Oregano flakes
  • Finely chopped 3 cloves of fresh garlic
  • 3 finely chopped green chilies
  • 2 teaspoon yeast
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • 3 teaspoon oil
  • Salt to taste
  • Shredded mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese 
  • Toppings of your choice.
    For the pizza sauce: 
  • 1 16 oz tomato sauce
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon red chili powder or cayenne powder
  • Salt to taste


Recipe
    For the Pizza base
  • Soak yeast in hot water for 5 minutes or until it foams on the surface. 
  • Mix all ingredients except yeast well. 
  • Add yeast and again mix well. 
  • Add water to prepare soft dough.
  • Cover the dough and set it aside for at least 11/2 hour or until it doubles itself in size.
    For the Sauce
  • Mix all ingredients to the tomato sauce.
    For Pizza
  • Preheat Oven to 400 F. (this is a must) 
  • Take the dough as it is without trying to blend it again on a pizza pan or cookie pan. 
  • With a rolling pin roll the dough to the edges. 
  • Spread a thick layer of sauce on the dough. 
  • Sprinkle some shredded mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese on it. 
  • Garnish with the toppings. Common ones are sliced or chopped red onions, sliced tomatoes, mushrooms, ground meat, green peppers, pineapple, jalepeno peppers. 
  • Sprinkle cheese after you garnished all the toppings on the pizza. 
  • Set oven to 350 F. with more heat on the lower side.
  • Let it bake to 18-20 minutes or cheese is melted and base is brown.

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