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Friday, June 25, 2010

making of Pizza

Ingredients

For the Pizza base and Topping
2 Cups All-purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Ajwain
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning or Parsley or Oregano flakes
Finely chopped 3 cloves of fresh garlic
3 finely chopped green chilies
2 teaspoon yeast
1/2 teaspoon sugar
3 teaspoon oil
Salt to taste
Shredded mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese
Toppings of your choice.
For the pizza sauce:
1 16 oz tomato sauce
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon red chili powder or cayenne powder
Salt to taste
Method
For the Pizza base
Soak yeast in hot water for 5 minutes or until it foams on the surface.
Mix all ingredients except yeast well.
Add yeast and again mix well.
Add water to prepare soft dough.
Cover the dough and set it aside for at least 11/2 hour or until it doubles itself in size.
For the Sauce
Mix all ingredients to the tomato sauce.
For Pizza
Preheat Oven to 400 F. (this is a must)
Take the dough as it is without trying to blend it again on a pizza pan or cookie pan.
With a rolling pin roll the dough to the edges.
Spread a thick layer of sauce on the dough.
Sprinkle some shredded mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese on it.
Garnish with the toppings. Common ones are sliced or chopped red onions, sliced tomatoes, mushrooms, ground meat, green peppers, pineapple, jalepeno peppers.
Sprinkle cheese after you garnished all the toppings on the pizza.
Set oven to 350 F. with more heat on the lower side.
Let it bake to 18-20 minutes or cheese is melted and base is brown.

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