Thursday, April 29, 2010

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!!!

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