Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Pizza

Ingredients

For Pizza Dough (can make about 3 medium size and 2 smaller size):
410 g plain flour
1/2 tablespoon of baker's yeast
1 teaspoon salt
250ml hot water

For the tomato paste (enough for 2 small pizza base):
2 tablespoons of minced chicken
1 tablespoon of chopped onions
1 tablespoon of chopped garlic
a little bit of sugar
soy sauce and pepper to taste
a little bit of italian herbs (those dried ones comes in a bottle)
1/3 can of tomato paste
1 tablespoon of olive oil
some water

For Pizza toppings (enough for 2 small pizza)
2 mushrooms (chopped up)
2 tablespoons of chopped up capsicum
2 tablespoons of broccoli
2 tablespoon of tomatoes (seed removed)
Pizza Plus cheese for toppings

Methods

Pizza dough:
(1) Mix all the dry ingredients before adding the hot water.
(2) Add the hot water and start mixing (you can use spoon first before using your hand)
(3) Work on the dough till it is smooth.
(4) Place the dough in a bowl and cover it with towel tissue and leave it there for 1 hr.
(5) After 1hr, the dough should rise and give it a punch and knead the dough again and place the dough back into the bowl, cover it and leave it for 1 hr.
(6) After one hour you can roll the dough using roller on lightly floured surface and set it aside.

Tomato paste:
(1) Heat up the oil and sauteed garlic and onions till fragrant.
(2) Add the minced chicken and stir well.
(3) Add the tomato paste and a little bit of water and stir till boiled.
(4) Add some italian herbs, sugar, soy sauce and pepper to taste.
(5) If the paste is too thick, add a little bit of water but not too much. The paste should not be watery.

Assembling the pizza:
(1) Add the tomato paste on the prepared dough.
(2) Add a little bit of cheese.
(3) Add the pizza topping ingredients and finish off with cheese.
(4) Baked around 20 - 30 minutes at 225 deg Celsius (timing and temperature may varies with different oven, so do peep on the pizza once in awhile to ensure that it is not over baked).

Age:
23 months

Here hows the food looks like (first pic is unbaked pizza, second pic is cooked pizza fresh from oven):