Home-made Pizza
Ingredients for the dough:
2 Cups All-purpose Flour or 1 1/2 cups All-purpose and 1/2 cup Wheat Flour
1 teaspoon Ajwa (will ease the process of digestion!!)
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning or Parsley or Oregano flakes
3 cloves of fresh garlic (finely chopped)
3 finely chopped green chilies (optional)
2 teaspoon yeast
1/2 teaspoon sugar (optional - its takes out the bitterness from yeast)
3 teaspoon oil (any kind)
Salt to taste
You will also need shredded mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese and toppings
of your choice.
Method:
- 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 dough. Dough should be similar to kind of dough we
prepare for roti (soft).
- Cover the dough and set it aside for at least 11/2 hour or until it
doubles itself in size.
Ingredients for the pizza sauce:
1 16 oz tomato sauce
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon red chili powder or cayenne powder
Salt to taste
Mix all ingredients to the tomato sauce.
You can get ready-made pizza sauce too.
Method 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 you like. 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.
- Be sure to put the pizza pan on lowest rack possible and let it bake to
18-20 minutes or cheese is melted and crust (bottom) is brown.
Enjoy your home-made pizza with Coke or Pepsi. Happy Eating!!
This recipe is for one 12" pan Pizza
