Pizza is one of the most favorite foods for kids not only
mine for all, even adults love this. When it comes to home made I always try to
make it healthy, this is my first try with wheat flour. One of my close friend
introduced me first a pizza recipe, tried as her instruction and got good
results. During my second try something went wrong, I ended up with searching
for a good pizza dough recipe and got lot of information. Then after some trial
and errors I finalized the recipe and don’t want to try something else apart
from that.
Couple of baking groups chooses pizza for this month’s
challenge. Home Bakers Challenge is a new group started by Priya and the first challenge
given was Pizza by Martha Stewart which is hosted by Diya of Divya's Culinary Journey. As soon I saw the recipe I wonder pizza
dough ratio was close to mine and only minor changes. Yields 2 12 - 14 inch pizzas.
Ingredients:
Pizza Dough:
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Bread flour
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9 oz
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Whole wheat flour
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3 oz
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Active dry yeast
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1 Tbsp or ½ envelope
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Sugar
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1 tsp
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Salt
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1 tsp
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Water
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¾ cup + ¼ cup
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Oil
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1 Tbsp
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Topping:
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Shredded mozzarella
cheese
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½ lbs
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Tomatoes chopped
(seeds removed)
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1 cup
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Black olive
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1 cup
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Onion chopped
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½ cup
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Bell pepper chopped
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½ cup
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Tomato Sauce
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¼ cup
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For Chicken Tikka:
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Boneless chicken
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½ lb
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Onion cubed
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½ cup
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Green bell pepper
cubed
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½ cup
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Yogurt
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2 Tbsp
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Cumin powder
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1 tsp
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Coriander powder
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1 tsp
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Red chili powder
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1 tsp
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Dry methi leaves
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1 tsp
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Ginger garlic paste
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1 tsp
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Turmeric powder
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¼ tsp
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Oil
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1 Tbsp
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Lemon juice
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1 tsp
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Salt
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Directions for Pizza Dough:
- Add yeast with sugar topping to ¼ cup of lukewarm water, give a gentle stir and let it rest for 15 minutes.
- In a large bowl, add flour, salt and mix well, then add water, oil and yeast mixture mix well and knead for about 10 minutes.
- Place the dough in a greased large bowl with a wrap or lid and allow it to rest for about 2 hours or until it doubles.
- Dust a clean surface, transfer the raised dough and divide it to two portions and again wrap and allow it to rise of another hour or 1.5 times rise.
- After this second rise pizza dough is ready to use.
Directions for Chicken Tikka:
- In a mixing bowl, add all the ingredients including oil except chicken, bell pepper and onion mix well until blends well.
- Now take one fourth of the mixture, add onion and bell pepper to that and mix well until it coats evenly.
- In the remaining mixture add chicken and mix until it coats well. Allow it to rest for about one hour.
- Heat oven or grille for 425º F grease pan and bake the chicken for 20 minutes or until it’s cooked on both the sides same way cook onion and bell pepper for about 10 minutes.
- Don’t over cook the chicken or else it will be hard and once its done use in recipe as soon as possible.
Directions for pizza:
- Preheat the oven and pizza stone or pan for about 45 minutes to one hour at 500º F.
- After two rises dust the pizza peel, transfer one portion of the dough. Using your fingers press the dough to spread it evenly and make circle of 12 – 14 inch diameter or to desired shape.
- Spread 2 tablespoon of pizza sauce evenly. Now sprinkle cheese evenly (just cover don’t over dump).
- Next sprinkle the toppings one by one, add cooked chicken tikka, onion and bell pepper too.
- Sprinkle ½ teaspoon of salt and again one handful of cheese.
- Slide the pizza from peel to center of the stone and bake cook for about 10 minutes.
Tips:
- Always use weighing machine to measure your flour, while measuring in cups flour quantity use to vary.
- For best results use king Arthur bread flour or any bread flour which has more protein and more elastic while kneading.
- Don’t use rapid rise or quick rise yeast for this. Active dry yeast to be activated before adding to the flour as mentioned.
- If you don’t have a pizza stone or pizza peel, don’t worry you can use pizza pan instead of stone and use parchment paper instead of pizza peel.
- Transfer the pizza with parchment paper to the preheated pan.
Note:
If you don’t want to try wheat pizza here is the ratio for
regular one 12 oz bread flour and ¾ + ⅛ cup of water which yields 2 12 - 14
inch pizza.
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3 comments:
Looks Delicious...
colorful and healthy pizza, feel like grabbing it now. Todays post : http://nayanas-kitchen-kreations.blogspot.in/2013/05/dhokar-dalna-snc-challenge.html
They look so good. Love the olives in there.
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