Homemade Chicken Pizza

Ingredients for Homemade Pizza:

For Pizza base:

1. Yeast – 2.5 small spoons

    Lukewarm water – 2 big spoons

    Curd – ½ small spoon

    Sugar – ½ small spoon

2. Maida – 5 cups

    Sugar – 9.5 small spoons

    Salt – For taste

For Chicken filling:

3. Butter – 50 gm

4. Capsicum cut into square pieces – 1 cup

    Onions cut into square pieces – 1 cup

    Salt – For taste

    Pepper powder – ½ small spoon

5. Chicken cooked adding pepper and salt and chopped fine – 1 cup

For Cheese sauce:

6. Butter – 2 big spoons

7. Maida – 2 big spoons

8. Milk – 2 cups

9. White pepper powder – ½ small spoon

10. Cheese grated – ½ cup

11. Salt – For taste

For Pizza sauce:

12. Oil – 1.5 big spoons

13. Onion – 1, chopped fine

     Tomato – 2, chopped fine

     Red chilli powder – ½ small spoon

     Garlic chopped fine – 1 small spoon

     Sugar – 1 small spoon

     Salt – For taste

14. Tomato sauce – 3 big spoons

15. Olive oil – As required

16. Oregano – 1 small spoon

17. Mozzarella cheese grated – 1 cup

18. Capsicum – 1, chopped into rounded pieces, after removing sides.

How to prepare Homemade Pizza?

1. Take yeast, sugar, curd and lukewarm water in a bowl.

2. Mix it well and allow to rest for 10 minutes.

3. Add this mixture to maida, salt and sugar.

4. Knead the dough adding lukewarm water.

5. When it turns soft, allow to rest for half an hour.

6. Dip a white cloth in water and place over the dough.

7. After half an hour, the dough rises up.

8. Heat butter, and sauté ingredients no: 4.

9. Add chicken, mix well and take off from flame. This is the chicken filling used for pizza.

10. Heat oil and sauté ingredients no: 13.

11. When it cools off, make a smooth paste using a mixer.

12. Add tomato sauce and mix well. This is Pizza sauce.

13. Heat oil and add maida.

14. When its colour changes, add milk and keep stirring to avoid the formation of lumps.

15. Add salt and pepper powder to it.

16. When the contents thicken, add cheese, mix well and take off the flame. This is the cheese sauce used for pizza.

17. Pre-heat oven in 180 degree celsious.

18. Keep together kneaded dough, pizza pan, chicken filling, pizza sauce, cheese sauce and mozzarella cheese.

19. Beat the dough and spread it and make balls from it.

20. Spread the ball on your palm and then put on the pizza pan.

21. Spread again to get a perfect pizza shape.

22. Bake the pizza in oven for 10 minutes.

23. Spread pizza sauce on its top, followed by chicken filling.

24. Spread oregano followed by cheese sauce, capsicum and grated mozzarella cheese.

25. In the pre-heated oven, bake for 20 minutes.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine August 15 – 31, 2014 

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