Planned trips — Not for us !!

What will you do if you have been planning for a few weeks for an adventure trip on to the mountains over a long weekend and phew it gets cancelled last minute…Thanks to the rain Gods…they decided to play the trick and made sure that the long weekend is forced to be spent indoors and that your planning goes for a toss…

For few people like us for whom planning ends up in such disasters…the better or I must say the best option is to conduct excursions rather unplanned… because planning is not made for us or we are not made for planning …whatever way one wants to look at it…it screams the same thing…

Mountains to Pizza

So we were not left with too many options…option 1 was to sit and curse my partner… and eat his/ her head that we should go inspite of all odds…option 2 was curse the rain Gods and option 3 was to spend time doing something constructive and experimental cooking… (And believe me other than hot pakodas hot and yummy Pizza is also a good option in the wet and wild weather…)

So we decided to take up option 3 and then after exploring google for few minutes or may be few hours; decides to make a home made Pizza…and so motivated we were that in that rain struck day we went to get our most vital ingredients to make our first Pizza… Though we also took a break …went out to have  a good evening… watched ‘Wake up Sid’ but that was a blessing in disguise for the Pizza dough because it got more time to ferment and resulted in a better end product – THE PIZZA….

Making of the Pizza

So, without any further delay lets take you to the procedure and ingredients for making Pizza…

Ingredients Required (For Dough)

  • 1 cup of warm water
  • 3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour (Maida)
  • 2 tablespoons of olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons of honey
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of yeast

12 steps to Home made pizza!!

  1. Put warm water in a bowl and add salt, honey and yeast and keep it aside for 10 minutes
  2. Add this gradually in flour and olive oil and mix well.
  3. Knead it well till it becomes a soft dough
  4. If it cracks, your dough is too hard; and if it feels like a batter its too soft. If it is too hard then add water and if it is too soft add more flour little by little till it becomes soft
  5. Brush olive oil on the dough and cover it with clean film and set it aside for an hour. Till it doubles the original size
  6. Then push down the dough by kneeding and keep it aside for another 1 hour. Refrigerate it in case you do not want to use it the same day.
  7. With this dough you can make 4 medium sized Pizza base.
  8. Put the dough on a lightly floured surface, put a bit of flour on top and make it into the shape of a pie by stretching it out from the center outwards. Punch some holes in the dough with a fork to let the air escape while the pizza is in the oven
  9. Preheat the oven at 210 degree C and in the meantime top the pizza with the toppings of your choice (We have not mentioned the toppings because that’s your choice what you want to put on toppings…. We added capsicum, carrot, peas, cauliflower, spinach, spring onions, onions, tomatoes, corn, mushrooms, cheese, chillies etc etc…you take your own pick
  10. Grease the baking pan well before putting the pizza base in the baking dish.
  11. Before putting the Pizza in oven,,,do not forget to put salt, pepper, chilli powder on the topping to taste
  12. Place the Pizza in the oven and bake for 20-25 min…or till the time the corner of the Pizza do not become light brown or the cheese does not melt.

Happy Pizza making!!! I am sure you will enjoy making Pizza as much as we did and also get excited while it gets baked in the oven and the aroma fills your nostrils :)

Now Thanks to my better half Bhavna for all the hard work  in making Pizza and then jotting this post down. Check out behind the scenes from making of Pizza -

making of Pizza!
making of Pizza!