Chicken n Veggie Pizza

About this Recipe...

Always loved Pizza...here is the Homemade Chicken n Veggie Pizza recipe from scratch. I used Pizza-Stone to bake the pizza to give a perfect look. Do try making pizza at home...you'll forget the Pizza's from outlets. Try with various toppings, veg or non-veg and you'll fall in love with your homemade PIZZA.

Ingredients

Pizza Dough

• 1/2 Cup Luke warm water
• 1 Tbsp Sugar
• 1 Packet yeast
• All purpose flour
• Salt as per taste
• 1/2 tsp Dry thyme(optional)
• 4 Tbsp Olive Oil

Pizza Sauce

• 3 medium size Tomato blanched and pureed
• 4-5 cloves of garlic finely chopped
• Salt as per taste
• 1 Tbsp Sugar
• 1 tsp Red chilli powder
• 1 Finely chopped green chili
• 1 Tbsp Tomato ketchup
• 1 tsp Roasted fennel powder
• 1 tsp Dried basil
• 1 tsp Dried oregano
• 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
• 2 Tbsp Olive Oil

Toppings

• Chicken Breast
• Skim Mozzarella Cheese (Shredded)
• Cheddar Cheese (Grated)
• 1/2 tsp Black pepper powder
• Cajun spice mix(optional)
• 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
• Salt as per taste
• Chopped onion, garlic, bellpepper, mushroom, long hot peppers

Directions

Pizza Dough

1. In a bowl take the lukewarm water, add the sugar and yeast stir it with a spoon and cover it for at least 5 minutes.
2. Now in a mixing bowl add the flour, salt, dried thyme, oil and mix everything well. Now pour the yeast mixture slowly and make a soft dough. Lastly apply some olive oil on the top of the dough And cover it with a wet cloth and keep it in a warm place for fermentation.
3. (In my case I kept my dough inside the oven).
4. After around one hour take out the bowl you will see that your dough becomes double in volume, punch it so the air bubbles go away and again keep it for 1 more hour for fermentation.

Pizza Sauce

1. In a pan take some olive oil, when oil becomes hot add chopped garlic, sauté it for a while, now add chopped green chili and blanched and puréed tomato, followed by salt and sugar as per taste and cover the pan.
2. After sometime remove the cover mix everything well and add tomato ketchup and fennel powder and cook it until it's been done.
3. Now add red chili powder, basil, oregano and Italian seasoning and mix everything.
4. When the sauce becomes thick then it's ready to use.
5. Notes: For blanching the tomato in a pan of boiling water, kept the tomatoes for one-two minute. Then removed and peeled the skin of the tomatoes and puréed it.

Toppings

1. I used chicken also for my pizza topping, I cut the chicken pieces as small cubes, sautéd it in olive oil with black pepper, salt and Cajun spice until it gets cooked.

Pizza Base

1. Now take the dough in your work surface,spread some flour and punch it again. Now roll it with the help of a rolling pin to a 10-12 inch round size.
2. Now spread the pizza sauce all over the pizza base and add the cooked chicken pieces topped with both the cheese.
3. Now add the other veggies and again topped with the remaining cheese. Now your pizza is ready to bake, bake it for 15 minutes in a 450F preheated oven.
4. Notes:

(If you are making the pizza on a pizza stone, then apply this time and temperature for your baking.)
( if you are baking the pizza on a regular baking tray, then bake the pizza bread without topping for 5 minutes in a 450F preheated oven then add the sauce, cheese and toppings of your choice and then bake it for another 12-14 minutes until the cheese melts.)