MY NAME SAYS IT ALL: PIZZA

Back home, I always gave home made snacks to my dotty , after coming here to US, I tried giving her Finger foods like Cheerios, crackers, cereals etc but in vein. I think her tongue is already adjusted to Indian spicy food, she doesnot like to taste these bland cheerios. She loves to eat only 2 things (outside food) here in US, number one is Chocolate Donut and number 2 is none other than PIZZZZZZZZZZZA!!! This is the first time I am trying to make pizza from the scratch, I was skeptical about pizza base, but that too turned out soft.

Ingredients:-

To make 9" pizza

All Purpose flour/ maida- 1 cup

Oil - 2 tsp

Active dry yeast- 4 gms( half sachet, it comes in 8 gms packet)

Tomato sauce-1/2 cup

Chilli sauce- 2 tbsp

Sliced green bell pepper- 1/2 cup

Sliced onion- 1/2 cup

Sliced Tomato- 1/2 cup

Pitted olive- 10-12 nos.

Shredded Mozzarella cheese- 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Hot water -3/4 cup

Procedure:-

Add yeast in hot water and stir it and allow it to sit for 10 minutes.
Add a pinch of salt to flour and make dough by adding the yeast dissolved water.
Smear oil on the surface of dough, keep it in warm place for an hour.
After an hour, size of the dough will be doubled.
Roll it to half inch thick by using roller pin on a flour dusted platform.
Preheat the oven at 450 deg F.
Place the Pizza base in baking pan and bake it for 4-5 minutes.
Take out from oven, apply tomato sauce and chilli sauce on the base.
Mix all the veggies in a bowl add chilli sauce and salt as per your taste.
Place all chopped veggies, olives on the base.
Sprinkle shredded mozarella cheese above the veggies.
Bake it in oven at 450 deg F for 15 minutes. ( I baked it for 20 mins, so my cheese got burnt a bit, so be careful).
Voila!!! Pizza is ready !!!!!!