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9th February is very special for pizza lovers, because every year they celebrate International Pizza Day on this day. On this occasion, you have only one option: order pizza or go out somewhere and eat. So wait… you can make market-like pizza at home without oven and enjoy it with the whole family. In which you will go to the restaurant and order pizza for every family member. In almost that amount you can buy all the ingredients, so that pizza can be made and eaten not once but many times. So let’s see the recipe of Chef Pankaj Bhadauria.
Chef Pankaj Bhadauria has explained step by step the complete method of making pizza in the pan itself. In which he has also shared how you can prepare instant pizza base at home and has also given the recipe of Italian pizza sauce in an easy way. So on International Pizza Day, let’s see how you can make pizza at home in just half an hour without oven.
Pizza Base Ingredients
2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, half teaspoon salt, half teaspoon baking soda, 1 cup curd, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon olive oil,
Ingredients for Pizza Sauce
You will need 8 medium sized tomatoes, 2 teaspoons oil, 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic, salt as per taste, some basil leaves, half cup tomato puree, red chili flakes, 1 teaspoon sugar,
Ingredients for Topping
1 spoon garlic butter, mozzarella cheese (as per requirement), if you wish you can also take cheddar cheese. For topping, you can take vegetables of your choice like different colored capsicum, onions, cherry tomatoes and olives. Now let us know the method of making pizza.
Pizza Recipe
- First of all, you have to add flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda in a big bowl and mix everything well with hands.
- Now add curd to the flour mixture and add 1 cup water. Mix it well with a ladle. You have to make very soft dough.
- To measure the water for kneading the dough for pizza base, you have to use the same cup from which you took out the flour.
- When your pizza base dough is ready, cover it with a damp cloth and keep it aside so that it rises after some time.
- To prepare the sauce, after washing all the tomatoes, cut them into two parts and extract their juice and separate them.
- Put 2 spoons of oil in a pan. Add finely chopped garlic to it and toss it lightly. Now turn all the tomatoes and keep them aside. The cut part of the tomato should be downwards.
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- Cover and cook the tomatoes until the skin separates. After this, remove all the peels and separate them.
- Add salt to tomatoes. Add basil leaves and mash well with a potato masher. You also add tomato puree to it.
- To complete the sauce, add 1 teaspoon sugar and red chili flakes and mix. Your Italian pizza sauce will be ready.
- Now lift the flour and add olive oil to it and mix well. Take flour as per your requirement and make a ball out of it.
- Sprinkle dry flour on a board and then apply some oil on your hands and prepare the base of the pizza. During this time you have to keep the pan hot.
- Spread some oil in a pre-heated pan, add the pizza base in it and cover it by pouring a teaspoon of water around the edges.
- Within some time, your pizza base will be puffed up and ready and will be crisp from below. Now you have to bake the upper part of the pizza on gas like you bake bread.
- Spread some garlic butter on the pizza base and then apply the prepared Italian pizza sauce.
- Now you have to add mozzarella cheese and also grate cheddar cheese and spread it on it. This makes the pizza taste amazing.
- Now you have to cut all the vegetables like capsicum, tomato, onion into small pieces. After this spread it on the pizza.
- Place a pan on the gas and place your pizza in it and cook it on low to medium flame. It will be ready in about 4 to 5 minutes.
Follow step by step
You find many DIY methods on social media in which it is told to make pizza base or bread pizza, but when you try it, it goes wrong. If you follow this pizza recipe of Chef Pankaj Bhadauria properly, you can make perfect pan pizza.
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