Monday, June 4, 2012

Chicken Pizza





Ingredients

For pizza crust  (32 cm diameter size)


Maida  : 2 cups
Instant dry  yeast : 1/2 tablespoon
Sugar : 1 teaspoon
Salt : 1/3 teaspoon
Water : as needed
Butter : 1 1/2 tablespoon

For Topping

Chicken boneless (preferably breast pieces) : 1/2 cup
Button mushroom : 3 nos ( thinly sliced   and sauteed in oil)
Green capsicum  : 1/2  (sliced)
Red capsicum  : 1/2   (sliced)
Onion  : 1/4 (cut into cubes)
Black olives   : 3 nos  (sliced)
Pizza cheese : 150 gms

Other ingredients

Pizza sauce : 5 1/2 tablespoon

Method

Cut chicken into small pieces.Heat oil in a pan.Add chicken and stir fry by adding salt and pepper.

In a bowl mix together maida,yeast,sugar and salt .Knead it into a dough by adding enough water.Add butter and knead it again.Put it in a ziplock bag and keep it in refrigerator for half an hour.Press dough lightly to remove air.Take a greased pizza pan and roll out the dough into approximately 32 cm diameter size.Using a fork ,make some holes on the rolled dough.Spread the  pizza sauce evenly  on the dough and leave 1 cms around  the edges.Top up with 50 gms of pizza cheese followed by chicken,mushroom,onion,red and green capsicum.Spread the remaining  cheese on it  and sprinkle with olives.Preheat the oven to 220 degree celcius and bake the pizza base  for 10-13 minutes.

Tip
1)Use Instant dry yeast for better fermentation.
2)Incase  you  want  pizza of smaller size ,adjust the measurements accordingly..


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