Homemade Pizza

Making a homemade pizza right from making the pizza base can be a little frightening. It was scary to me too, but trust me I just made an effort and it came out to be fairly good enough. May not be as good as dominos but can be compared to many of the best restaurant as I can place my own amount of toppings of meat and cheese without worrying at my pocket. So guys try this out and see how good it really becomes.

Pizza

First of all lets learn making the pizza dough.

Ingredients

Flour - 250gms

Dry Yeast - 2 tablespoon

Sugar - 1 tablespoon

Salt - to taste

First of all take around 150 ml of warm water put 1 tablespoon of sugar and place 2 tablespoon of yeast in it. Cover and leave it for about 10mins for the yeast to get activated.

Take a bowl for making the dough. Place the flour in it and instead of water pour the yeast water in making the dough, dont worry if it smells a bit foul as that is the smell of the yeast and will go away when you bake it.

You can add little bit of plain warm water if more water is required.

Now, the texture of your dough should be soft enough but not sticky, you can place dry flour on the kneading floor time to time while you are making the dough.

Once done your dough should be soft and if you press the dough with finger it will slowly bounce back.

Now cover the dough in a container and keep it in the fridge for atleast 2hr or you can also keep it over night or 8hrs.

Now, preparation of the pizza. You can try various ways of making the toppings, from veg stuffs to non-veg variants(smoked or cooked chicken, mutton etc) but I am showing a method and indredients which I used, to make it really cheesy and meaty.

Ingredients

Britannia Cheezza - 150 gms

Milk - one cup

Mozzaralla Cheese - 100gms

Pork Salami - 100gms

Pork Ham - 100gms

Capsicum - 1 pc chopped

Onion - 1 big chopped

Tomato puree

Pepper

Salt to taste

Oreganon and chilli flakes for garnishing

First I make a cheese sauce

To make a cheese sauce, I grate the Britannia Cheezza into one cup of milk and heat them in low flame till the cheese and the milk both mix and melt together. Add some salt and pepper to taste.

Then, take out the pizza dough from the fridge and spread it over a baking pan. I had a rectangular shapped baking tray which I used, you can use any shape but the main thing it has to be less in depth, flat is also better.

Take the tray and put some oil on it to make it little greezy.

Now, I cover the tray with the pizza dough upto the edges and you can make it a thin crust pizza or thick to your preference. But I preferred it a thin crust.

Once the tray is covered with the dough, spread tomato puree on it, then the cheese sauce, then the cut salamis and ham. After that the chopped onions and the capsicum. Add some salt to taste.

Now grate the mozzaralla cheese to cover the tray.

Put it in the pre-heated oven at 220 degrees for about 20-25 mins.

You will be surprised to see that you have made the best pizza ever.

Bon Apetit!!!

Momo (dumplings) with Red Chilli sauce

Momo is one of our favourite dishes and it comes straight from the land of my darling wife, as she is a nepali. So this recipe is authentic to her taste, hopefully you all will enjoy it. Try the sauce also as thats a special sauce to accompany your momos.

Momo (dumplings) with Red Chilli sauce (serves 4 persons)

Ingredients

chicken or pork keema (mince) - 500 gms

onion - 250gms

garlic paste - 2 tablespoon of

Oil - 3 tablespoon

Flour - 500gms

Salt to taste

You also need a momo steamer vessel

Method

Key to this method of momo preparation is "do not pre-cook the meat". Usually pork and chicken mince is very tender, so we let it cook along with the momo while steaming.

Chop the onions into small quite small pieces then take a mixing bowl, put the chopped onions, pork mince, 2 tablespoon of garlic paste and 3 tablespoon of oil and salt to taste. Mix them nicely.

Now, in a separate bowl to make a dough with flour. Put 1 tablespoon of oil into the flour before kneading.

Make small balls out of the dough and roll over it over with make a round approx 3inch diameter. (you can also make it bigger or small depending on your preference)

Place a spoon or 1 and half spoon of the mince mix on it and nicely fold it in a semi-circular shape.

Keep making the mince filled momos and keep then in you momo maker vessel to steam.

Steam it for 15-20 mins and your momo is ready.

Now, to make a red chilli sauce you need;

Red Chilli - 5-6 dry red chillies

Garlic cloves - 5-6

Tomato - 1 big

Soak the dry red chillies in water for about 15mins.

Take them out in a mixer jar, place the garlic cloves and the tomato and little salt to taste.

Blend them nicely and you momo sauce is ready.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!