Dinner: Pizza from sravani's kitchen

This is a long post. I made pizza before but not from scratch. So here is a complete home made pizza recipe, just for you guys.

This post has 3 recipes: Pizza tomato sauce, Pizza dough, Pizza.

It might seems a big task, but trust be it is all worth. You can omit first two recipes and buy them from store and it becomes even more simple.

Pizza sauce:

This recipe is from one of my favorite cooks,Jamie Oliver, with slight modifications and Indian touch.

Ingredients:
Tomatoes - 5
Garlic pods -2
Curry leaves (Original recipe has basil but i could not get it)
Olive oil

It is so simple and i was amazed with the result.

Take a non stick pan, add 2 tbsp olive oil. Once oil heats, add thinly sliced garlic. Once garlic starts to turn brown, add cut tomatoes and 4-5 curry leaves. Until tomatoes starts to boil, try to mash tomatoes as much as possible using back of wooden spoon . Add salt and pepper as per your taste. Let tomatoes boil for a min and then strain them in a sieve . Make sure all the juices get down by pressing down the mix in sieve.



Now boil the extracted tomato sauce until right consistency.

India touch: I added pinch of Garam-masala powder and a pinch of coriander powder. My heart craved for spices and i had to give in.


You can use this sauce for pizza, pasta or toast.

Pizza Dough:

This is very similar to bread dough.

Ingredients:
Plain flour - 4 cups
Warm water - 2 cups
Olive oil
Salt
dry yeast

Activate yeast as per instructions on the packet. Mix all dry ingredients.
Make a well in the flour, add yeast mix, water and 2 tbsp olive oil. Gently mix the flour.

Knead the dough for 10 minutes . Place it a bowl, coat the dough with olive oil and cover it with a kitchen towel.



Let it rest for an hour an half, until the flour doubles its volume.

Knead the dough again and pizza dough is ready. You can wrap it in clingfilm and store it in fridge and use whenever you are making pizza/bread.

Now you can roll the dough into pizza base.


Pizza:

Ingredients:
Pizza sauce
Pizza base
Toppings- (anything you like)
olive oil
cheese


You can use home made pizza sauce and dough or buy them from home as per your convenience.

I like to use fried onions in pizza toppings. It is very simple to make. Fry thinly sliced onion in 1 tbsp of olive oil stirring continuously until onion start to brown.


Other than that I used green olives,capsicum, mushroom, green chillies, onion, tomato, potato as toppings.


Spread the pizza sauce over the pizza base. Grate some cheese over it. Add toppings of your wish. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Drizzle some olive oil and grate some more cheese.

Toss it in preheat oven for about 20 minutes at 200 C.

Yummy pizza is ready :)


I customized my husband's pizza without olives and more tomatoes and cheese. Mine is with olive and no tomatoes.