The presentation here is my second try because my food critic - my hubby
did not approve my first try as the pizza was fat (used more dough than necessary). The second time around, I figured the crust had to be a bit thinner so it dint end up fat
and was perfectly cooked from top to bottom. I simply loved the process of making pizza, so different from our conventional cooking style, ready to make it any number of times. Can't wait to share this whole process.
I planned to use my cookie tray and bake a square pizza but my hubby dint want to compromise on the appearance, especially as I was planning to post it in my blog. So he ran to the store and got me pizza pan just minutes before baking - oh how lovely hon!
Please don't forget to read the "Note" in the end of the post. I linked this recipe with my Pizza dough recipe separately to avoid the length of this post. so click on for the basic references.
Ingredients:
Pizza dough (Click for a step wise method for making pizza dough at home)
Pizza / Pasta Sauce - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 5 thin slices
Mushroom - 3 no's (Sliced thin)
Bell pepper - 5 thin slices
Onion - 3 tablespoon(roughly chopped)
Mozzarella cheese - 200 grams
Pepper powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Olive oil - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt - a pinch
Chicken - 100grams(cubed small)
For Vegetarian pizza add ingredients other than chicken. We can also buy pizza base from outside and follow the process.
Method:
- Grease the pizza tray with some olive oil and dust it with some flour and keep aside.
- Take a bowl and mix pepper, salt and olive oil together and toss the vegetables in it. (I chopped the vegetables for my little one). Take a tawa and saute chicken pieces for 5 minutes(Half cooking the chicken helps the chicken to bake fast and be tender soft).
- Divide the dough to two equal parts. Now on your counter top spread some flour and take one part and spread it well to round or square shape and place it on your greased pizza tray and let it sit for 10 minutes to set again. Use a fork and poke all over.
- Spread the Pizza sauce, arrange the toppings.
- Preheat the oven to 400`F for 5 minutes and keep this pizza tray on the middle rack and set the timer to cook for 15 minutes or until the cheese on top gets melted well and the bottom of pizza is slight brown.
- Take the pizza outside and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- Slice and serve..
My Note:
- Its very important that we pat and spread the pizza dough equally on all sides. when i tried for the first time i made the batter thick from all sides and made my pizza fat.
- Taken batter should be spreaded using hand to the maximum.
- Use less Pasta sauce to spread.
- I used bread flour because it helps in giving a crisp crust for pizza but using APF is also fine.
- The moment you take out your cooked pizza you will see some water like structure on top. That is only because of the cheese getting melted. Allow to set for 10 minutes and then serve.
- If you are using chicken, dice them to small bits. this will help chicken to cook well.
- After the step of raising the batter(letting it sit for 2 hours) take the required and store the unused remaining batter in a air tight container. It will sit for 2 weeks long.
- Amount of cheese and Toppings are absolutely our choice. There are "n" number of toppings so you can use any vegetable you like.
the pizzza is really tempting me, Divya. just planning to have a pizza party this saturday for my elder son's birthday, and you seemed to read my mind :)
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Deletelooks so gorgeous..
ReplyDeleteThank you kalpana
Deletewow tasty pizza, love the toppings...
ReplyDeleteThank you arthy
Deletethis looks so gorgeous, divya... could have a pc now... :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Rafee
Deleteyummy pizza
ReplyDeleteThank you amrita
DeleteDelicious n inviting pizza
ReplyDeleteThank you preeti
Deletelooks tempting and well made...
ReplyDeleteThank you saranya
DeleteThat looks absolutely delicious and I can't believe that it is home made...
ReplyDeleteVery tempting..
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Happy blogging..
Reva
Thank you reva for stopping...
Deletelooks perfect divya with all those toppings and sauce..
ReplyDeleteThank you PT
DeleteLooks so yum...love it...
ReplyDeleteThank you Tamilarasi
DeleteOh wow! That's so tempting Divya. Love the toppings. Perfect :)
ReplyDeleteThank you priya
DeleteLove that thin crust, you have done super prefectly, homemade pizzas are always the best,love to have that slice.
ReplyDeleteThank you priya
DeleteMy tastebuds are dancing,seeing your pizza...:)Fantastic!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Nisha
DeleteI love pizza and this looks fabulous.. Pretty much in love with this Divya :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you nilu
DeleteAwesome pizza dear. looks so tempting
ReplyDeleteThank you Vimitha
DeleteNice clicks Divya! So colorful.. I make pizza too, interesting that you directly kept the veggies and pizza bread at the same time in oven.. I usually have to bake my pizza for 5 mins and then do the topping and bake.. Yours still have a perfect crust.. Nice
ReplyDeleteI got the crust perfect everytime may be that is the reason am yet to try baking the bread first and then adding veggies version. thanks for letting me know i am going to try that way too...thank you sumee
DeleteDivya looks so crispy and delicious bookmarked will try out...
ReplyDeleteThank you revathi....will be happy to hear after your try
Deletedelicious and yummy
ReplyDeleteThank you shama
DeleteMy dinner is over and you make me hungry! Perfect pizza!
ReplyDeleteThank you bharathy
DeleteInteresting recipe dear...pizzzaaaa......
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DeleteSuper oppol !!! dont forget to make this 4 me :)
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ReplyDeleteYummy pizza Divya..looks cool...
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