Pizza is a baked pie of Italian origin consisting of a shallow bread-like crust covered with seasoned tomato sauce (Pizza sauce), cheese, and often other toppings such as sausage or olive. The word pizza is believed to be from an Old Italian word meaning "a point".


       Pizza is an oven-baked, flat, round bread typically topped with a tomato sauce (Pizza sauce), cheese and various toppings. The modern pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish has since become popular in many parts of the world. 
 
      An establishment that makes and sells pizzas is called a "pizzeria". Many varieties of pizza exist worldwide, along with several dish variants based upon pizza.




INGREDIENTS:

For Pizza Bread Base:
All-purpose flour/ Maida-3 ½ cups
Dry yeast-2 teaspoons
Lukewarm water-1cup
Milk-1cup
Salt-1 teaspoons
Sugar-2 teaspoons
Olive oil-3 tablespoons


For Chicken Topping: (For 3 Pizzas)

Pizza Sauce - 6 tablespoons
Marinated chicken- 3/4 cup
Capsicum, chopped- 1
Onions, chopped- 1(optional)
Jalapenos- ¼ cup
Olives-  ¼  cup
Mozerella cheese (grated)- 200 grams/ approximately 1cup


PROCEDURE:

Pizza Bread Base:

  • In a bowl take the lukewarm water and add the sugar. Then sprinkle the yeast and allow fermenting for 8-10minutes.
  • Meanwhile in a large bowl mix flour, salt and 1tablespoon of olive oil with hand.
  • Then add the yeast and milk little by little and make sticky dough.
  •  Then transfer the dough to a floured surface and knead and massage the dough for 5mts and make like chapatti dough.
  • Transfer the dough to the greased bowl cover and keep for 2 hrs to ferment and rise in a warm place.
  • After 2hrs the dough would have doubled its size. Knock down the dough by punching the dough.
  • Cover and keep aside for 30 minutes.
  • Punch the dough and cut the dough using knife into equal 3parts.

 
Chicken Pizza:

  • Cut the chicken into small pieces/ strips.
  • Marinate chicken with chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, salt, lime juice and allow to marinate for 10 minutes.
  • Transfer the dough into a floured surface and stretch the dough using hand into a circle or rectangle shape as you wish with little raised edges.
  • Prick the base with skewer/fork. Now brush the base with olive oil.
  • In pizza base apply a two tablespoons full of pizza sauce and spread evenly around the pizza leaving a centimeter at the edge of the pizza.
  • Keep the grated cheese around the pizza and arrange the marinated chicken evenly on top of that.
  • Keep capsicum, jalapenos and olives in between the chicken evenly.

  •  Preheat the oven to 180oC. Transfer the pizza to baking tray or pizza pan and bake till the cheese is melted and the base becomes crisp.
  • Note: If you feel the dough is too dry add little more milk. If it becomes watery dough add some more flour and knead well.
  • Keep the filling as you wish. You can add chopped onions as well.
  • Cut the chicken into small pieces which will allow to cook well when when the pizza base is cooking.

Makes 3 small sized pizzas.