Home Made Vegetable Pizza

Size : Appx 10 inch pizza

Serves : 2 -3 adults

Ingredients :-

For making dough:-

Maida / All purpose flour : 2 cups

Yeast : 1/2 tbspn

Sugar : 1/2 tspn

Salt : 1 tspn

Warm water : 1 cup

Olive oil : 2 tbspn

For dusting :-

Maida : 1 cup

Pizza Sauce :-

1/4 tin of pizza sauce

Toppings :-

Onion : 1 small

Capsicum : 1/2

Pineapple : few chunks

Jalapeno : 1

Mushrooms : 5

Broccoli : 1/4 crown

Preparation :-

• Take 2 cups of all purpose flour also called as maida in a big bowl. To this add salt and mix nicely.
• Take a bowl and add yeast , to this add 1 cup of warm water and sugar(Dont add hot water yeast will die) . Mix nicely and put aside for 10 mins .
• When yeast proofs then add 1tbspn olive oil to the flour and add yeast mixture . Mix nicely and finally add 1tbspn olive oil to the dough and give a good mix. The dough will be sticky so dont worry about it and it should be like that only. Cover the dough with a lid or wet damp cloth and put in a warm place for 1 hr.
• After that if u see the dough it will increase its size atleast double. Punch down the dough and mix nicely . cover it and put again in warm place for 45 mins. After the time elapse punch down the dough .
• Take 1/4 cup of flour on a flour board and take the dough on to the board and make a nice dough and roll it with rolling pin or you can directly spread the dough on the pizza pan. Before spreading pizza dough on the pan sprinkle little corn meal or dry flour s that it prevents the pizza base from sticking to the pan . Once done apply olive oil all over the base and edges. Take a fork and prick it allover.
• Preheat oven to 450 degree F and after it is preheated put this pizza pan in oven and bake for 5 mins and take out.
• Now apply pizza sauce all over the base . I used Trader giotto's pizza sauce . You can use any brand or you can use fresh home made pizza sauce.
• Distribute toppings evenly all over the base.
• Sprinkle mozzarella grated cheese all over the vegetables.
• Drizzle olive oil all over the pizza and put the pan back in the oven.
• When cheese melts and turns light brownish color then switch off oven and pull out the pan carefully .
• Transfer pizza on to a chopping board and cut with a pizza cutter.
• Thought of showing the bottom side of the pizza that browned evenly.
  
  
• Serve delicious hot vegetable pizza .

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Mumbai Special Tawa Pulao

Serves : 2

Ingredients :-

Basmathi rice : 1&1/2 electric rice cooker cups

Cauliflower : 1/4 of a small cauliflower

Capsicum : 1 small

Carrot : 1

Potato : 1 small

Green peas : 1/2 cup frozen

Tomato : 1 plum

Onion : 1

Green chillies : 2

Garlic : 3 pods

Ginger garlic paste : 1/4 tspn

Cumin : 1/2 tspn

Bay leaf : 2

Pav bhaji masala : 2 tspn

Kitchen king masala : 1 tspn

Garam masala : 1/4 tspn

Salt : 1&1/2 tspn + 1/4 tspn

Water : 1/4 cup

Spring onions : 1 bunch

Red chilly paste : 1 tbspn

Lemon : 1/2

Preparations :-

• Clean rice and add enough water as directed , add 1&1/2 tspn salt and cook till fluffy and cool it.
• Chop onion , slit green chillies , chop cauliflower , capsicum , carrot , potato, spring onions , garlic and tomato .
  
  
• Heat a wok add 1 inch cube butter and 2 tbspn oil and when hot add cumin seeds , bay leaves, finely chopped garlic and green chillies.
  
  
• Then add onions and fry till half done and add ginger garlic paste.
  
  
• Add all veggies except tomato ,mix them and add 1/4 tspn salt and fry them till they are cooked. Check whether veggies are cooked by piercing laddle into a potato piece .
  
  
• Once they are cooked add tomato and add pav bhaji masala , kitchen king masala and garam masala and fry for a minute, add red chilly paste and add water . Adding little water helps in producing enough moist , helps in better mixing of masalas to veggies and helps in not getting burnt to the bottom. Add spring onions and dont mix it.
  
  
• Immediately add rice and give a good mix. Squeeze lemon juice and mix gently. When Rice turns hot switch off stove and serve hot.
  
  
• If u like u can serve it with raitha but i like it as it is.

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