Homemade Pizza Recipe | How to make Pizza from Scratch

Homemade Pizza with Indian Cottage Cheese topping
Ingredients Needed:

For the Dough

All purpose flour / Maida - 3 cups
Dry Yeast - 1 tsp
Milk - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt a pinch
Olive Oil / Cooking Oil - 4 tbsp
Water to make the dough

For the Sauce :

Tomatoes - 5 big
Onions - 2 medium
Garlic - 4 big cloves
Oil - 2 tsp
Roasted Dry Chili powder, Coarse - 1 tsp

For topping

Paneer, cubed -1 cup
Yellow, Red and Green Capsicm - 1 cup
Cheese - 1 cup
Thyme, Basil - 1 tsp

How to make the dough

Heat the milk to lukewarm, add the yeast along with sugar and keep it covered for 10 mins.

In a wide bowl, take the flour, salt and mix well. Then when the yeast has risen well, add to the flour and crumble well. Slowly add the water to knead into a soft pliable dough. Keep adding the oil in intervals, until you get a dough that doesn't stick to your hands.

Pat down well and keep it covered for an hour. Punch and knead again and let it rest for 2 hrs.

For making the Tomato Sauce:

Blanch the tomatoes and remove the outer skin.

When it is cooled down, make a puree.

Mince the onions and the garlic into small pieces.

Heat a non stick pan with oil, add the garlic and saute well. Then add the onions and continue cooking till they brown. Now add the chili powder and combine everthing well.

Now add the tomatoe puree and bring to boil. Continue cooking till you get a thick sauce.

For the topping

Finely chop the capsicum, cube the paneers, if you perfer you can roast them. But as plain it tastes great.

For assembling the pizza:

Pinch out enough balls and dust well. Pat down or roll down each balls and transfer to the baking tray. You can grease the baking tray with butter.

Now spread a layer of tomato sauce over the dough, add all the topping and finally cover with grated cheese and sprinkle crushed thyme and basil

Pre heat the oven at 185 deg C  and bake the pizza for 30 mins at 185 Deg C.

Serve hot

Notes:

Toppings can be anything you want.

Though I have given 4 tbsp of oil, depending on the dough you may require more to make it non sticky.

Minimum of 2 -3 hrs is required for the dough to raise, I almost left it for more than 4 hrs because of work. It turned out awesome! If you want to refrigerate the dough you can do, by storing it in a air tight box.

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