Method:
Before making the cheese ensure that butter
is chilled till hard and paneer is chilled till firm. Cut chilled butter
into cubes. Similarly cut paneer into cubes. Take a mixie jar and add butter
and paneer and blend. Mix with a spoon at intervals and blend the mixture till
smooth. Take a disposable cup and fill it with the prepared cheese. Cover the
cheese cup with cling film and freeze it till hard. After 3 to 4 hours the
cheese will be ready. If wished one may use the readily available mozzarella
cheese.
Pizza
Sauce:
Ingredients:
- Capsicum – 1 (90gms) {Deseed
and use half capsicum}
- Tomatoes – 4 (360gms)
- Onions – 2 (80gms0
- Garlic Cloves – 4 (5gms)
- Salt – To Taste (3/4tsp)
- Sugar – 1tsp
- Red Chili Powder – 1tsp
- Oregano – 1/4tsp
- Italian Seasoning – 1/2tsp
- Crushed Fennel Seeds – 1/4tsp
- Olive Oil – 1Tbsp
Preparations:
Wash capsicum, deseed and use half for making
the sauce. Take half capsicum and cut into small pieces. Wash and chop the
tomatoes. Using a mixer grinder make paste of the chopped tomatoes. Peel and
cube onions. Make a coarse paste of the onions in a mixer grinder. Peel and
grate garlic.
Method:
Heat a pan and add oil to it. When oil is hot
add the grated garlic and onion paste. Fry the onion mixture till it is
somewhat dry. Then add capsicum pieces and mix. Add the tomato paste, mix and
cook covered on medium flame for 5 to 7 minutes. Remove lid and mix with a
spoon. Then add salt, sugar. Red chili powder, oregano, Italian seasoning,
crushed fennel seeds and mix well. Cook on low flame for 10 minutes or till the
sauce reaches desired consistency. See that the consistency of the sauce is
neither too thick nor too thin. Transfer the prepared pizza sauce into a bowl.
Pizza
Topping:
Ingredients:
- Chopped Onions – 45gms (1/4Cup)
- Chopped Capsicum – 35gms (1/4Cup)
- Sweet Corn – 70gms (1/2Cup)
- Chopped Mushrooms – 50gms (1/4Cup)
- Chopped Tomatoes – 20gms (1/8Cup)
- Salt – To Taste (1/4Heaped tea spoon)
- Black Pepper Powder - (1/4Heaped tea spoon—
freshly ground)
- Olive Oil – 1tsp
Method:
Take chopped onions into a bowl and add
chopped capsicum, sweet corn, chopped tomatoes, chopped mushrooms and mix well.
If required/desired parboil the vegetable mix in microwave oven by cooking on
high power for 3 to 5 minutes. To the vegetable mix add salt, black pepper
powder and olive oil. Mix all well together and the topping is ready to use.
Bread
Pizza Making:
Toast bread slices till slightly crisp. To
toast the bread slices use a pop-up toaster or use a flat griddle and toast on
stove top. Here I have used the pop-up toaster. Insert bread slices into the
toaster and toast till slightly crisp. To a toasted bread slice add some pizza
sauce and spread evenly. Above the sauce, spread the pizza topping on the bread
slice. Holding the grater above the bread slice, grate pizza cheese all over as
shown in the movie clip. Ensure that the topping is fully covered with grated
cheese. Transfer the prepared bread slice on to a high stand grill tray. Place
the grill tray in oven and grill for 7 minutes or till cheese melts. Once the
cheese is melted bread pizza will be ready to serve. transfer to a serving
plate and cut with a pizza cutter or a sharp knife into 4 pieces for eating
convenience.
Points To Notice:
Using the bread dough make flat bread (Roll
like Chapati) and proceed to get normal Pizza. Using bread makes the pizza
crisper and tastier. As the melted cheese fries the porous bread slice it
becomes extra crisp than the ordinary pizza.
Seasoning added in the sauce and topping may
be adjusted according to taste.
After experiencing the taste and texture I
found the home-made cheese a lot more tastier than the readily available mozzarella
cheese. However it is a personal choice and one may experience it by tasting
it.
Using chilled butter and chilled paneer gives
a good texture to the pizza cheese.
Garlic may be reduced to two cloves if it
appears pungent. Those who like the garlic flavor may use four cloves as given
in the recipe.
Though Italian seasoning has oregano in it, I
have added extra amount of oregano separately. As mentioned earlier, seasonings
may be adjusted according to taste.
Fennel seeds powder gives a distinct flavor
to the sauce.
Chopping the vegetables finely cooks them
faster and makes rest on the base easily.
Check for the desired consistency while preparing
sauce. If the sauce is thin bread slice will become soggy absorbing the
moisture from sauce. If sauce is too thick it dries out faster while grilling.
Basically see that the sauce sticks to the bread slice and gets fried while
grilling to give flavor to the bread slice.
For topping use your choice of vegetables in
the form you wish— one can use chopped vegetables as I have shown or one
can use sliced vegetables to give a good look to the bread pizza.
Mushrooms
change color when exposed to air
especially after cleaning. Originally choose the white ones and in the
process if they change color, still you can use them. Don't try to clean
them under running water. Wipe them with damp kitchen towel /or kitchen
napkin and cut them to pieces before using(using mushrooms is optional)
Parboiling the topping vegetables is another
option. However finely chopped vegetables gets parboiled while grilling and
gives a nice crunch to the pizza.
To toast the bread slices use a pop-up
toaster or an OTG (Oven-Toaster-Griller), or toast using hot griddle on stove
top.One can adjust the crispness as per choice.
Use high stand grill tray while making bread
pizza, so that the bread slice will be nearer to the heat (Grill) and
gets done
faster.
Now we can prepare PIZZA at home which children crave.
Serve hot to your family members and get their
praises!!!!
Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
