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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Home Made Pizza




Ingredients for Pizza Base:


  • 175 gm : Plain flour
  • 1 tsp : Salt
  • 2 tsp : Dried yeast
  • 2 tbsp : Olive oil
  • 200 ml : Luke warm water
  • 11/2 tsp : Sugar



Directions for Pizza Base:

Add yeast and sugar in luke warm water. Leave it for 5 minutes. Sieve the flour and add salt, olive oil into it. Kneed it by adding yeast mixture into it. Set aside for 30 minutes. Kneed it again and cover it with damp cloth for 2 hours.



Ingredient for Pizza Sauce:

  • 2 tbsp : Olive oil
  • 1 tsp : Salt
  • 3 clove : Garlic
  • 2 medium : Capsicum
  • 2 large : Tomatoes (peeled)
  • 16oz : Tomato puree
  • 1 tsp : Whole basil
  • 1 tsp : Whole oregano
  • 1 pinch : Chilli powder 
  • Half tsp : Black pepper (as per taste)




Directions For Pizza Sauce:

Saute garlic in olive oil. Add capsicum, tomatoes, tomato puree, chilli powder, black pepper and salt into it. Cook it on a low flame for 15 minutes. Add oregano and basil into it and cook it for another 15 minutes on a low flame. Make sure the tomatoes and capsicum is mashed up. The consistency of sauce should be right. It should not be  too watery or too thick.

Note: You can make tomato puree at home. Peel the tomatoes and put them into the blender.



Ingredients For Pizza Topping:

  • 1 large : Onion (sliced)
  • 1 large : Capsicum (sliced)
  • 1 tbsp : Olive oil
  • 1 fresh : Tomato (sliced)
  • 5 medium : Olives
  • 2 large pieces : Chicken breast
  • 1 : Green chilli
  • 300 gm : Mild cheese
  • 2 tbsp : Sweet corns
  • 1 1/2 tsp : Salt
  • Black pepper (as per taste)



Directions For pizza Topping:

Add oil in a pan.Cut the chicken breasts into very small pieces and put them in the oil. Fry it for 5 to 10 minutes. Add capsicum and onions into it. Add sweet corn into it and fry for few more minutes. Then add green chilli, salt, black pepper.

Divide the pizza base dough into 3 pieces. Take a piece and make a ball. Roll it, try to make it thin from the centre and little bit thick from the edges. Make marks with fork in the centre. Layer it with pizza sauce (sauce described above). Then layer it with pizza topping. Put tomato slices, onion slices and olives on it. Sprinkle cheese on it and put it into the oven (250 degrees) for 15 to 20 minutes. Serve hot.

Note: I prefer rolling pizza base with hands instead of roller. Just make a ball and stretch it by hands (thin from the middle and thick from the edges.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Pani Poori or Gol Guppa



There are 3 items to be made for this recipe, which are:-
  • Gol Guppas
  • Filling for Gol Guppas
  • Gol Guppas water
The 'ingedrients and directions' for each of the above, are given below in order.


Ingredients for Gol Guppa

  • 1 cup : Semolina (sooji)
  • 1 tbsp : All purpose flour (maida)
  • 1 tsp : Salt (or as per taste)
  • Oil for frying

Direction for Gol Guppas

  1. Mix all the ingredients and make a dough by adding water into it
  2. Leave the dough for 20 minutes to settle
  3. Make a small ball and roll it into thin sheet. Dont make it very thin or very thick
  4. Take a round shape cutter of the desired size and cut the sheet
  5. Deep fry them into very hot oil
  6. Don't take them out quickly as they pop-up, let them cook on a low flame for few seconds
  7. Put the absorbing tissue into the tray and spread all the gol guppas on it.

Ingredients for Gol Guppa Filling

  • 1 tin : White chick peas (boiled)
  • 1 medium : Tomato (cut in small cubes)
  • 2 : Potatoes (boiled, cut in small cubes)
  • 1 medium : Onion (chopped)

Directions for Gool Guppa Filling

  1. Gently break each gol guppa from the middle with the finger
  2. Fill it with some potatoes, chick peas, onion and tomatoes
  3. Sprinkle little bit chaat masala on it
  4. Serve with Gol Guppa water (see below)

Ingredients for Gol Gupa water

  • 2 tbsp : Tamarind (soaked)
  • 1 tbsp : Cumin powder
  • 1 tsp : Chaat Masala
  • 1 tsp : Black salt
  • few : Corriander leaves
  • few : Mint leaves
  • 1 : Green chilli
  • 1 : Pinch Chilli powder
  • 1 tsp : Sugar

Directions for Gol Guppa Water

Mix all the ingredients in as much water as you like and put it on a flame for 5 minutes. Sieve it and its ready to serve.