Pan Pizza

Pizza prepared on tawa or pan is as delicious as prepared in oven.

Ingredients:

For Pizza Dough

•          2cup maida (All purpose flour)

•          2 ½ tbsp Olive Oil 

•          1tsp Yeast 

•          1tsp Sugar 

•          ½ tsp Salt 

For pizza toppings

•          1 Tomato chopped (without seeds) 

•          1 Capsicum chopped (without seeds)

•          1 Onion chopped

•          1cup grated Mozzarella Cheese  

Method:

•           At first take one cup of luke warm water and add yeast and sugar to it and cover the bowl for 2-3 minutes.

•          Now in a bowl take maida, add Olive Oil, and Salt to it. Mix them well. Knead the Maida mix thoroughly with the yeast water until it gets smooth. Grease the smooth dough with some oil and covered it with fresh clean towel. Place the bowl at a warm place for 3-4 hours. The dough will rise up and get double in quantity. (Pizza dough is ready to make Pizza.)

•          Now take the Pizza dough and roll it with hands in a round shape. Dust it with a little dry Maida and roll it into 10 inch round disc on a rolling board. (or your desire size).

•          Preheat a pan then grease it with little oil and place pizza inside it and use a fork to puts a lots of holes in this pizza dough and cook for 2 minutes or until the lower side gets little brown.

•          Now flip it up side down and reduce the flame to minimum. Garnish pizza with topping. Firstly layer pizza sauce and then place capsicum, onion and tomato on the pizza. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese as well.

•          Cover pizza and cook for 8-10 minutes on medium flame until the cheese gets melted and the lower side gets little brown.  Keep checking after every 3 minutes.

•          Pizza is ready.

Recipe Credit:  From my Ma’s Rasoi

Cook Tip:   You can prepare extra quantity of dough and store it in your refrigerator,  for the next 5-6 days. and whenever you want to make a Pizza, just take it out from the freezer and frost it to make a Pizza instantly.You can create the topping according to your taste .one more thing  that the vegetables should not be extremely moist, else the base will not get crispy.If you are using dry yeast instead of instant yeast, then mix it in sugar and lukewarm water so that it becomes active.