CHICKEN SAUSAGE PIZZA

To make pizza base (u can make 3 pizzas from this dough)

Yeast               :            2-1/2 teaspoon

Sugar              :            8-1/2  teaspoon

Curd                :            1 teaspoon

Maida               :            5 leveled cup

Salt                 :            to taste

Olive oil            :            1 teaspoon

Pizza toping:

Tomato                                    :            3 large (slice into round thin pieces)

Chicken sausage                     :            200 g (cut into round thin pieces)

Big onion                                :            2 large (chopped)

Garlic chopped                       :            2 tbsp

Capsicum                              :            1 (chopped)

Butter                                    :            1 tbsp

Pepper powder                       :            1 tsp

Salt                                       :            to taste

Mozzarella cheese                   :            100 g

Method of making dough:

1. In a small bowl, sprinkle the yeast, ½ teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon curd on the warm water and stir to dissolve it. Set aside until the yeast starts forming bubbles in about 5 minutes.

2. Pour the flour into a large bowl.  Pour the yeast mix in the center then pour olive oil and a pinch of salt.

3. Mix it with hands to form a dough.  Squeeze the dough with your hands pushing and folding. Squeeze just long enough for the dough until it no longer sticks to your hands.

4. Cover the bowl with a wet cloth, and set the bowl aside for approximately 1½ – 2 hours until the dough doubles in volume.

5. When the dough is double its original size, punch it down to eliminate the air bubbles.

6. Take a piece of dough and shape it into a thin round layer (like a chappathi). Make a pizza base about 12 inches in diameter.

7. Paint the pizza pan with butter or ghee then transfer the pizza base to the pan. Using your fingertips, push from the center to the sides to cover the entire surface of the pan with a thin layer of dough.

Pizza toping

1. Heat butter in a pan and sauté big onion and garlic.  Sauté it well, add pepper powder and salt.    

2. Sprinkle grated cheese onto the top of the pizza base.

3. Put a layer of cooked onion then put the tomato slices and capsicum.  Sprinkle some pepper powder.

4. Put the sausage pieces on top and grate the rest of cheese onto the top.

5. Cook the pizza in a preheated microwave oven at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.  To check for readiness, lift one side of the pizza. The pizza is ready when the bottom surface is light brown.

Tip: You can make chicken or beef pizza by placing cooked and minced chicken or beef instead of sausage.

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FRIED GRAM CHUTNEY

Ingredients:

Roasted Bangal gram                          :            1 cup (kadala parippu)

Green chili                                          :            3 big

Grated Coconut                                   :            2 tablespoons

Salt                                                    :            to taste

Mustard, red chili and curry leaves         :            as required

Method:

1. Grind finely the gram, grated coconut, green chili, and salt with a little water in a mixie. 

2. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard, red chili and curry leaves.

3. When mustard splutters and red chili turns a little black, add the chutney to it and heat it a little. Mix well.

It is a good combination for ghee roast.

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CARROT HALWA -- Yummy Diwali Desert!

Ingredients:

Carrot                                       :  1 cup grated

Milk                                          :  1 cup or as required for cooking carrot

Sugar                                       :  1 cup

Cardamom powder                    :  1 teaspoon

Ghee                                       :  3 tablespoon

Method:

1. Heat 3 tbsp ghee in a pan. 

2. Roast the nuts till golden brown and set aside.

3. In the same pan add grated carrots and cardamom powder and sauté for 5 minutes.

4. Add milk and let it cook on low flame till milk is absorbed and the mixture becomes thick.

5. Add sugar and cook for 5 minutes.

6. Garnish with roasted nuts and add some ghee on top.  Let it cool and serve.

HAPPY DIWALI

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