NO YEAST PIZZA

PIZZA

Pizza is a savory dish of Italian origin, consisting of a usually round, flattened base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. Classic homemade pizza recipe, including pizza dough and sauce. Make perfect pizza at home! This pizza has a crisp, light & fluffy base. The sauce is amazingly delicious & aromatic. Let me tell you that homemade pizza recipe is one of the easiest you can ever make and once you get to start making your own pizza at home, you will never buy ready made pizza base or order another takeaway.

Let’s start making the pizza step by step.

Step 1: Pizza dough

This homemade pizza dough is a super fast and simple recipe made without yeast and SO easy to make! Let’s start:

Ingredients:

2 cups

2 tbsp Curd/Yogurt

2-3 tbsp water

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

Olive oil

Salt

Recipe:

1. All ingredients to be at room temperature.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, sugar and salt. In another bowl whisk together curd and oil. Now combine the flour mixture and curd mixture and stir to combine.
3. Kneading the dough is so easy, simple and fast. Add water and form a dough. Once everything comes together knead the dough for 5-10 minutes or until a smooth and soft dough is formed. If at all the dough is little sticky dust some flour and knead the dough.
4. Handling this dough is so easy and not messy. The dough is not sticky and that is the best part. Apply 2-3 drops of oil onto it.
5. Resting the dough is not necessary but I let it rest for few minutes while making the pizza sauce is ready.

Step 2: Pizza sauce

Pizza sauce is tomato based sauce prepared by blenching tomatoes and spiced with herbs and garlic.

Ingredients:

3 ripped red tomatoes
2 tsp oil
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped

1 small dried red chilli
1/2 onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp basil leaves, finely chopped
3/4 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
salt to taste
1/2 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp chilli flakes
1 tbsp tomato sauce

Recipe:

1. Firstly, slit x on bottom of tomatoes.
2. Add tomatoes (slitted at bottom) along with dried red chilli into boiling water and blanch.
3. Cover the pan and boil for 3-4 minutes or till the skin starts to leave from tomatoes.
4. Further, peel the skin of tomatoes once they cooled completely.
5. Then take 2 peeled tomatoes and the red chilli and blend to smooth purees.
6. Chop other 1 tomato discarding the seeds.
7. Transfer to the plate and keep aside.
8. Heat oil in a pan and add chopped garlic. Sauté till they turn slightly golden brown.
9. Add sauté chopped onions till they change colour. then add chopped - deseeded tomatoes and cook completely.
10. Mash in between a little so that it turns mushy.
11. Also add prepared tomato puree (from 2 blanched tomatoes).
12. Mix well and add basil, chilli powder, oregano, chilli flakes and salt. mix well and get the sauce to a boil.
13. Cover and simmer the sauce for atleast 5 minutes or till the sauce turns thick.
14. Then add tomato sauce and finally, mix well.
15. Pizza sauce is ready.

**You can even use the same pizza sauce recipe in pasta, spaghetti and lasagna.

Since I did not use any toppings as we wanted to have a plain pizza so I’ll just start with the pizza recipe.

Ingredients:

Homemade pizza base

Homemade pizza sauce

Grated cheese

Oregano 

Chilli flakes

1/2 onion finely chopped

Recipe:

1. Roll the dough in your desired shape. Roll it out about 1/2 inch thick. Turn and stretch the dough until it will not stretch further.
2. Fold over the edges to form the outer crust.
3. Let the dough relax 5 minutes and then continue to stretch it until it reaches the desired size.
4. Prick the dough with fork all over it. Always prick the dough to avoid forming air and puffing in the dough while baking.
5. Lightly sprinkle your pizza plate (or flat baking sheet) with cornmeal.
6. Transfer the prepared flattened dough to the pizza plate.
7. Spread the tomato sauce, sprinkle with cheese, and place your desired toppings on the pizza (I chose only onion)
8. Bake pizza at 220C in oven, until the crust is browned and the cheese is golden, about 10-15 minutes. If you want, toward the end of the cooking time you can sprinkle on a little more cheese.
9. Slice and serve hot pizza.

Feel free to use whatever toppings your family enjoys on this homemade pizza recipe.

Enjoy and keep showering your love.