This pizza recipe has three types of cheese – mozzarella cheese,cheddar cheese and Parmesan cheese. All these cheese have different taste, mozzarella is the less processed one and the most used cheese in pizza. Parmesan is the hardest and used on top of the pizza it does not melt. Cheddar has a tang from the bacteria it produces it and is used with mozzarella to preserve chewiness.
INGREDIENTS
FOR THE TOPPINGS
Onion cut in squares 1 tbsp
Capsicum Cut in small squares 1 tbsp
Sweet corn kernels 1 tbsp
Oregano 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Fresh Pepper powdered 2 tsp
cheddar and mozzarella cheese 50 gm
Parmesan cheese 2 tsp
FOR THE SAUCE
Tomato 4 medium
Garlic finely chopped 3-4
Oregano 1 tsp
Bay leaf 1
Olive oil 1 tsp
Salt to taste
FOR THE DOUGH
Maida / refined flour 1 tea cup
Yeast 1 tsp
sugar 1 tsp
warm water 1/4 tea cup
Milk 1/4 tea cup
Olive oil 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
METHOD
Add 1 tsp yeast in 1/4 cup of warm water with sugar cover and wait for 5 minutes. Add it in 1 cup maida/all purpose flour and knead it. Add salt , oil , milk ( add the milk as desired) and make a dough. Cover with a wet cloth and keep it aside .It will rise in three hours .
To make the sauce take a kadai/wok put little oil add the chopped garlic,oregano, bay leaf and fry for 2 minutes add the ground tomato(beat the tomatoes in a mixer). Cover it and cook till it becomes thick and there is no liquid left . Add salt.
Take a non stick tawa/pan and on low heat put some olive oil . Add onions, capsicum and sweet corn and fry for 5 minutes. Add salt and oregano. Keep it aside
Preheat the electric oven for 10 minutes. Take the dough and make a round disk ( 7 inches) like a roti, prick it with a fork. The base can be prepared thin or thick as desired. Put this in a greased tray and bake it in oven for 5 minutes.
Take it out add 1 tbsp olive oil on top of the base then spread the tomato sauce over it.
Cut the cheese in cubes and put half of the mozzarella and cheddar cheese on to the tomato spread. add oregano ,pepper powder. Add the toppings and on top, again add the rest of the cheddar and mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, oregano and ground pepper and bake it in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 deg C or till the cheese melts.
Yummy pizza is ready.
Note:
- Preheat the oven for ten minutes.
- To ferment yeast the water temperature should be 100 to 110 deg F or 37 to 43 deg C.
- The pizza base can be made by hand or with the help of a rolling pin.
- Grease the cooking tray and keep the pizza base.
- The pizza base has to be kept for 5 minutes in a preheated oven on bake option and then take it out and add the tomato sauce. cheese and toppings. Keep it again in the oven at 180 deg C for 15 -20 minutes.
- Keep it the middle rack on toast option in the oven for 15 minutes , little more crispy 20 minutes.Keep a watch or the cheese will burn.
- Adding 3 different cheese gives a good flavour to the pizza.
- Add Oregano, fresh pepper and salt in in a small pestle and mortar or blender and make a powder and add on top of the pizza.
- I have used Maida to make pizza base. Maida is finely milled, refined and bleached wheat flour.
- Do not overload the pizza with toppings or the pizza will become soggy.