Vegetarian Pizza

Finally I have found the easy and the best suited (to my taste) recipe of making a quick vegetarian pizza at home. 

What you need to make this recipe: 

Pizza Dough:

All purpose flour (3 and a half cups) - Makes 4 medium sized pizza

3/4th cup olive oil (or refined oil)

Yeast - 3 tea spoons

Sugar - 1 tea spoon

Hot water - 1 and a half cup

* All the below quantities will be sufficient for 3 pizzas. We will make 1 pizza with zucchini and two with capsicum(green bell pepper). The rest of the toppings remain same. 

Tomato Sauce:

Tomato Puree - 1 can

Tomato Sauce - 2 table spoons

Chilli Sauce - 1 table spoon

Oil - 2 tea spoons

Oregano - 2 tea spoons

Salt - 1 tea spoon

Pizza Toppings: 

Mozzarella cheese - shredded into thin threads

Onion - 2 large onion finely sliced into thin circles

Tomato - 5 finely sliced into thin circles

Zucchini - 10-12 thin circular slices

Capsicum - 10 thin circular slices

Mushrooms - 1 bowl thin slices

Pizza Base: 

Dry all purpose flour

Method: 

Mix the yeast and sugar in the hot water and leave for 5 minutes. You will see that the water becomes milky and the yeast begins to ferment. Adding the sugar helps the yeast ferment faster. 

Meantime take the 3 and a half cup flour in a big bowl, and make a hole in the centre of the flour. Then pour the fermented yeast and oil in the flour. Take a butter knife and start moving it across the flour in a cake cutting fashion. You will see that the flour immediately binds together. Take 2 drops of oil in your hand and knead the flour nicely. One way to test that the flour is done is to make it into a round ball, and then press with two fingers gently on the flour ball surface. If the surface bounces back, the flour is done. Put the flour in a bowl and seal the bowl with cellophane from the top. Leave the flour to ferment for 2 hours. 

When the flour is ready, start with preparing the sauce. Mix all the contents mentioned above in a bowl, and the sauce is ready. 

Now take out the flour and knead again for around 5 minutes. Divide the flour into 4 equal portions. Pack one portion in the cellophane sheet and keep in the refrigerator. This can be used for the next time. Also turn on the over at this time (200 degree centigrade) and pre-heat for 15 minutes. 

Now put some dry maid (all purpose flour) on the surface of the kitchen table and start rolling out the pizza using a roller pin. Roll it out into a large circle keeping in mind that it is uniform in thickness throughout. When the pizza base is large enough, I stop using the roller pin, and flatten out the base more using my hands and fingers. 

Spread 1/3rd of the pizza sauce uniformly on the pizza base. Add a thin layer of pizza base. Cover with onion, zucchini (or capsicum, or both), tomato and mushroom. Finally add another generous layer of cheese on the top. Sprinkle salt on top of the pizza as per taste. 

Place the pizza in the over and bake nicely till the top of the pizza is golden brown and the base is nice and crispy. 

Serve hot with hot coffee or tea :) 

Tip: Add oregano and chill flakes while eating for that extra taste. Don't make it too spicy if you have acidity problems. Zucchini pizza is specially good to curb acidity issues.