Monday, March 10, 2008

Pizzaaaaaaaaa

Making pizza dough has become a de-riguer thing for me these days, thanks to the epicure in my son, Adarsh. Bloom some yeast in some warm water, make other additions like salt, sugar/honey, olive oil/yogurt/potato, mix in flour (mix of all-purpose and whole-wheat/atta), let it rest for a while, knead it, and you have a multipurpose dough ready.

If you've kneaded dough for rotis, you can swing the proportions too, after a couple of times of measured practice...

Top it with goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers and you've got yourself a gourmet pizza.

Top it with home-made tomato sauce, some mozzarella cheese, and you've got your kid happy.
Add mushrooms, pepper, onions, olives, jalapenos, and you have a vegetable pizza

Make a white sauce, slather on the rolled out pizza dough, add broccoli, corn or spinach with some pecorino-romano/parmesan/cheddar cheese.

The options for pizza are endless..

Or stuff it with curried cauliflower/onion/potato/left-over curries, and you can call it stuffed naan-kulcha

Or make it plain, and you have some yummy naan...

I also used some tile leftover from a bathroom remodel as my pizza stone, and the oven at 500 F, and you have a close recreation of the brick-oven pizzeria...

Get your palette ready, and color away to the varied possibilities...

4 comments:

SpicyTasty said...

Thats a nice tip and idea for making pizza. Whenever i tried to make its a big flop. Love your post.

LVI said...
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LVI said...

Thanks for your comment, Nithu. This is actually my first comment from someone other than family/friends, and I am very excited about it. I am new to the blog world, so please excuse the simple format and the absence of pictures:)

Uma said...

hey didi,
there you go again...(muh mein paani aa gaya).. jaldi se India aa... loved reading ur posts!!