Veggie Pizza

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour/Maida - 1 1/2 cup

Active Dry Yeast - 1/2 tbsp

Honey - 3/4 tbsp

Olive oil -3 tbsp

Water - 1/2 cup

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Mozarella cheese - 1 1/2 cups

Tomato ketchup - 3 tsps

Green chilli sauce - 1 tsp

Onion - 1 medium

Tomato - 1 small

Bellpeper - 1 meduim

Jalapeno - as required

Pineapple chunks - 1 small can

Process for making the dough

1) Take warm water in a small container and add yeast to it. Mix it once and leave the solution aside to rise (for about 5 mins).

2) Take a wide container and add flour, honey and salt. Mix everything once and start making the dough with yeast water and olive oil. Press the dough as hard as you can.

3) The consistency of the dough should neither be too soft nor too hard. Add more water or dough as necessary.

4) Dampen a paper towel and place it on the container.

5) Allow the dough to rise in a warm area (preferably oven).

6) After 45mins, you can notice that the dough has risen around double its size. Punch the thouroughly until it comes to its normal size. Do the same punching two more times in 1 hour intervals. Now, the dough is ready to be used.

This recipe makes a 10 inch pizza.

Process for making the pizza

1) Pre-heat the oven at 400 deg.

2) Take a big pan. Brush it with olive oil.

3) Take the pizza base and place it on the pan. Punch the dough slowly using your knuckles.

4) Spread tomato ketchup and chilli sauce on the pizza dough leaving about 1 inch towards the side.

5) Spread all the cut veggies on the pizza base. At the end top it with cheese.

6) Bake the pizza for about 20 - 25 mins.

Pizza is ready to savour. Bon appetite.

~CG