Chicken Pizza , Murgh Pizza

Sunday evenings are real tough time for me realizing that its ending and standing Next is the boring Monday morning . To overcome such heavy thoughts i usually rush to my kitchen to prepare an amazing dinner that would leave me with a good feeling until next day. What could be a better idea of ending your weekend eating finger licking and mouth watering Chicken pizza. Its extremely easy to prepare and tastes like heaven. Thanks to my hubby because without him saying" Nah!!! " for dinner at some utterly boring pizza restaurant that night i would have never discovered this Dish.

Here's sharing you the Recipe:

Serves- 3 Medium size Pizza

Preparation- 30 minutes

Cooking time- 3 to 5 minutes for each Pizza

Level of difficulty- Easy

Ingredients:

For the pizza base

• All purpose flour or pizza flour- 300gms. 
• Olive oil- 2 Tbsp
• Salt- 1 tsp
• sugar- 1 Tsp
• Fresh yeast or any yeast- 1 to 2 Tsp
• Luke warm water- 200 ml

For the pizza sauce

• Chicken minced- 300 gms
• Garlic cloves- 10 
• Onion- 1 large size, chopped
• Tomato puree- 100gms
• Tomato - 4 medium size , chopped
• Freshly crushed pepper and oregano
• Paprika powder- 1 Tsp
• Curry powder- 1Tbsp
• Salt as per taste
• Olive oil- 2Tbsp
• Mozerrela cheese

Preparation:

Pizza base preparation

1. Bring together flour, salt, sugar, oil and fresh yeast or(in case you are using granules yeast, place them in the luke warm water and let them dissolve, use the same water to knead the dough).
2. Now with the help of Luke warm water knead the dough.
3. cover the dough with a wet towel and let this dough rise for 15 minutes.

Pizza sauce preparation

1. Take 2 Tbsp of olive oil in a pan place the minced garlic. Now turn on the heat , once the garlic starts turning translucent add the onions and fry until translucent.
2. Now add the chicken and salt fry until chicken is cooked. Add the curry powder, tomato puree and tomatoes. Fry until tomatoes are cooked.
3. Once done adjust salt. Add the oregano and paprika give it a quick stir and turn off the heat.

Your Pizza sauce is ready now.

Pizza preparation

1. By this time your pizza dough would be ready. Knock the dough and then take handfull of it. Dust it with flour and roll it flat in round shape. Quickly run a fork through out,  making some marks here and there over the surface of the pizza base.
2. Heat a tawa or pan, Place the base and wait until just little brown spot hits one side, flip and just heat the other side for 10 seconds. Take out of the pan.
3. Preheat the oven at 220C and turn on the broilers or the grills.
4. Grease each pizza base with olive oil before applying the pizza sauce.
5. Place the mozerella cheese all over the sauce.
6. Grease the baking tray with some olive oil and place the pizza on them
7. Bake the pizza until the cheese are done. Take out and season with some pizza spices. 

Serve hot and enjoy finger licking Chicken Pizza. Yummy yum yum.

Happy cooking

By- Sushmita pandit

I have customized this Recipe. Original Recipe by Sanjeev Kapoor's cook book.

Masala Nan, Nan stuffed bread, Tandoori Nan

I have always loved masala nan. I almost like all the dishes that are cooked in Tandoor. While mentioning tandoor i feel like little talking about it. Traditional Tandoor is a mud packed oven, which is quite economical and extremely environment friendly since it is made up of pure clay or mud without the addition of any minerals. It is also not put up into furnace before people start using it. It is simply sundried before it is brought in use. And with the help of tandoor some amazing dishes are prepared. To mention a few namely, tandoori roti, tandoori chicken, tandoori gosht and the list continues.
But here i have prepared Nan by using the science of Tandoor in gas stove  and oven. The results are no less brighter than the Tandoori Nan . I got excellent nan by this process and therefore i would love to share this recipe with you.

This recipe will serve- 4 people(12 medium size nan)
Preparation- 45 minutes to 3 hours
Cooking - 2 to 3 minutes for each nan
Level of difficulty- medium

Ingredients:

For Dough 

• All purpose flour- 500 Gms
• Olive oil- 2 Tbsp
• Salt -1 Tsp
• Sugar- 1 Tsp
• Yeast- 1/2 of fresh block or 1.5 Tsp of instant yeast powder or granules
• Yogurt- 2 Tbsp
• Luke warm water- 130 ml

For the filling

• Potato- 4 large size boiled
• Onion- 1, finely chopped
• Curry leaves- 4 to 5 (optional) or any herb of your choice.
• Mustard seed or cumin seed- 1 Tsp
• Butter- 1 Tbsp
• Chili optional
• Turmeric powder- 1/2 Tsp
• Salt as per taste
• Butter for greasing nan

Preparation:

Dough preparation

• Bring together all the ingredients except luke warm water and then by adding little luke warm water time to time prepare a soft dough. Cover this dough with wet cloth and leave it aside for minimum 45 minutes to 3 hours.

Nan dough after 1 hour of kneading.

Masala Preparation or Filling Preparation

• Heat 1 Tbsp of Ghee or Butter in a skillet, add the seeds and let them crackle. 
• Add the turmeric powder and fry a little .
• Now add the curry leaves and then the onion. 
• Season with salt and fry until onion is translucent. 
• Now pour this whole preparation over the boiled potatoes. Now mash the potato. Your filling is ready.

Masala or potato filling

Nan preparation and baking 

• Fold the dough after the given time. Take 2 inch size ball from the dough.

1 inch size ball

• Dust it with flour.

Ball pressed between palms and then dusted with flour

• Fill in with the masala.

• Roll it flat, prefarably in oblong shape
• Super heat Tawa or frying pan. 
• Grease the flattened nan with water on both side.
• Place this greased nan on the super hot tawa. watch it rise after 30 seconds, Flip it. wait for another 30 second.

Nan on super hot pan, flipped once

• Now place a pizza pan inside the oven and turn on the broiler in the oven.
• Transfer the nan from pan to Pizza pan. Broil for 30 seconds, flip onto other side, broil for another 30 seconds. Take out and grease with butter.

Nan broiling in oven

Nan broiling in oven flipped onto other side.

or

After step 4

(if you have pizza stone heat it inside the oven and straight away place the nan on your pizza stone. Flip onto other side once you see the nan has risen up and allow it to brown on the other side too. Once it is brown grease it with Butter and enjoy)

Repeat the process until you get desired number of Nan's.

This is how we make nan by replicating the mechanism of Tandoor.

Enjoy your masala nan with Mutton Rogan gosht or any curry of your choice.

Ready to east nan, Greased with butter 

Happy cooking.

Don't forget to comment, because your words are inspiration to me and keeps me going. Thanks :-)

By- Sushmita Pandit

Pizza

Hii , in this post we will learn how to make some amazing PIZZA's, This will serve one.

Ingredients:
1. Pizza Base - 1 medium in size
2. For the Sauce

• Tomato- 1 large size
• Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
• Green chilli paste - 1/2 tsp
• Olive oil for make sauce
• Salt for taste

3. Toppings

• Tomatos - 1 small finally sliced
• Onion - 1 small finally sliced
• Capsicum- 1 small finally sliced
• Mozerella Cheese- 250gms finally grated
• Salt for taste

Method:  Making sauce

• Blanch the tomatoes( Make slight cuts on all sides of the tomato, and put it under boiling water for 2 minutes. peel off the skin)
• once blanching is over grind the tomato in the grinder to get a puree out of it
• Now take olive oil in a pan add garlic and chilli paste fry it out and finally add the tomato puree.
• cook for sometime unless you get a thick paste .

  Setting the oven:

• preheat the oven at 180 degrees
• Greese the baking tray with olive oil
• now take the pizza base in the tray and turn on the heat of ur gas stove slightly heat the tray for 30 seconds fliiping the base on both sides
• once u r done with that now spread the sauce over the base
• Sprinkle half of the mozerella cheese over the sauce
• Now spread all the toppings 
• Now sprinkle rest of the cheese over the toppings.
• Spread lots of olive oil over the tray also on the sides of the Pizza base

Once u r done with spreading put the tray in preheated oven. Bake the pizza  for next 10 min at 180 degrees.

U will see the cheese melting and the topping getting a good sizzling with it.

after 10 min take out the pizza transfer it to serving tray. U can add chili flakes and oregano over the hot pizza and what next Cut it and Enjoy......

If u wanna learn how to make home made pizza base..... just comment and get to know the rest.

Enjoyyyyy..................................

Happy cooking

By: Sushmita Pandit