I am a beginner when it comes to baking. Considering the time and efforts it needs I bake rarely. But some recipes my family has learnt (I must say hard way, after a lot of failed attempts) and we keep preparing them. Pizza is one such thing. As this is expensive and we get to customize as per our taste at home(like more cheese 😁) we prepare it when everyone is at home. This was prepared today because our microwave oven got repaired.
Ingredients required-
For dough –
- Yeast – about 5tsp
- Sugar – 4 tsp
- Water – 1 cup
- Maida – about 2 cups
- Oil – about 7-8 tsp
- Salt to taste
For veggies mix
- Onion- 2
- Capsicum- 2
- Sweet corn – 1
- Pepper – 2tsp
- Any other vegetable of choice
- Salt to taste
For Paneer
- Paneer cubes – about 15
- Thick curd – 5tsp
- Salt to taste
- Chilly powder- 2tsp
- Pav bhaji masala – 1tsp
Other ingredients-
- Pizza sauce- about 3tsp for a pizza
- Mozzarella + cheddar cheese
Method of preparation-
- First prepare the dough by mixing yeast, sugar and water for about 10min
- After that add salt, oil and maida and kneed well to prepare a soft dough. Don’t add as much yeast as you add for the bread, it will make the crust very soft
- Keep the kneeded dough for about 1hr by covering with a damp cloth
- Meanwhile dice the veggies such as onions, capsicum, tomatoes etc
- Prepare paneer by mixing curd, salt, chilly powder and pav bhaji masala. Mix well
- Add paneer cubes and refrigerate. If you keep it outside it might leave water during baking
- Once the dough is raised properly take a big dough ball
- Greese the baking pan with oil and spread this dough
- Next take the pizza sauce and spread it
- Then spread the cheese
- Next layer the veggies and paneer cubes
- Next spread more cheese on top
- Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about 15min
Note
- Spread the cheese in the bottom. Spreading all the cheese on top my result in burning
- If preparing multiple pizza, refrigerate cheese and paneer after spreading. Keeping them out may result in release of water during baking
- Baking time may vary based on oven. I have a microwave oven. I used microwave convection mode.