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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Homemade Veggie Pizza | Best Veggie Pizza

Veggie Pizza, my go to pizza to bake on our Friday night at home. There were times we used to buy pizza on every weekend and now hardly buy it from store, totally love the homemade pizza than the store ones !!! Baking pizza at home is lot simple and easier given few things to be take care earlier if you're making from the scratch.

If i'm planning for pizza with marinara sauce/pizza sauce, i would make the sauce one or two days earlier and kept it in refrigerator. And for the crust, make sure to prepare the dough at least 2 hrs before your meal/dinner time. That gives enough time for dough to proof. Once the dough and sauce are ready, all it need is just assemble and bake. There is no rule here for toppings and the amount of sauce and cheese. Make as your heart desires. I love my pizza with lot of veggies, little sauce and moderate cheese.

Related : How to make Classic Pizza Sauce

In today's recipe, i have used the standard toppings for veggie pizza. But you can make even with one or two veggies alone. Other than the veggies used in this recipes , panner, corn, olives are also nice addition to this pizza.Now let's check out how to make this delicious pizza.

Homemade Veggie Pizza | Best Veggie Pizza

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Pizza | Recipe Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients
Pizza dough - 1
Marinara Sauce - 1/4 cup
Mix Vegetables - 1/2 cup(sliced)*
Mozzarella cheese - 1/2 cup(grated)
*I have used onion, tomato, spinach, mushroom & capsicum

Procedure

Preheat the oven @ 425 F . Keep all the ingredients ready. Take the dough and roll into medium size pizza dough.

Place it on the baking tray and form rim on the dough edges(if you wish) and add the sauce.

Spread the sauce evenly and then add onions, mushroom and capsicum.

Next add the spinach & tomato. Finally sprinkle the cheese on top evenly.

Place it on the oven and bake it for 15-18 mins or until the crust is golden and cheese is bubbly. Remove from the oven and let it cool for a bit and cut into slices.

Tasty homemade veggie pizza is ready.

Related : How to make Pizza dough from Scratch

Related : How to make Cilantro Pesto Pizza

Notes:

Add more or less veggie as per your liking.
Cut all the veggies into thin slices for even cooking.
Just like veggie, you can add more or less sauce and cheese, it's really up to your choice.
Keep an eye on oven after 15 mins since every oven is little different.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Chickpeas Pasta | Farfalle pasta in chickpeas sauce

Chickpeas Pasta, a delicious and healthy pasta made from chickpeas sauce. Similar to my peas pasta recipe, this was also inspired from a book by "Giuliano Hazan".

The idea of this recipe is same as that of peas pasta, instead of peas, here we're using chickpeas.But the flavor and taste is quite different and both are unique in their own ways.

Farfalle pasta in chickpeas sauce

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 1
Recipe Category: Pasta | Recipe Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients
Farfalle Pasta - 1/2 cup
Cooked Chickpeas - 1/2
Onion - 1 small
Tomato - 1
Garlic - 1
Salt & Pepper - to taste
Olive Oil - 2 tsp
Italian Seasoning - as needed

Procedure

First bring a pot of water into boil, add salt & pasta and cook the pasta as per the package instructions.

In the mean time, finely chop the onions, garlic & tomato into small pieces, heat the pan with olive oil and add the onions & garlic. Saute till the onions becomes translucent,then add the tomatoes & saute it till it becomes mushy.

Then add the enough salt & pepper and the cooked chickpeas and saute it in masala for few mins.

Now add 1/2 of the cooked masala into mixie/blender jar and grind into smooth paste and add it back into the remaining chana masala along with some pasta cooked water.

By the time, the pasta would be ready, so drain it and add into the chana masala.Give a good mix.

That's tasty Chickpeas Pasta is ready.Sprinkle some Italian seasoning while serving.

Related : How to make Pesto Pasta

Monday, January 16, 2017

Fettuccine with Peas | Pasta with Peas | Peas Pasta

Peas Pasta, an easy to make delicious pasta recipe with only a handful of ingredients.It's one of the delicious pasta recipes that i have tried so far.

After a long time, i have joined the Blogging Marathon for this month,so for the week 3 , i have chosen "Vegetarian Dinner Recipe". This Pasta dish is ideal for quick dinner recipe(will be ready in 20 mins) yet finger licking delicious.

I have tried this recipe from the cook book(i forgot the name of the book) by "Giuliano Hazan". He is an Italian cook book author and this book have wonderful collection of vegetarian pasta recipe and all the recipes are very simple and most of them doesn't need cheese at all.

Though i have tried many recipes from it, this one is the most favorite of us.Don't underestimate this pasta dish with the minimal ingredients, it tastes so good with the sweet flavor of peas. The author suggest to use the fresh peas for great result, though i had prepared with frozen peas so far, i love the flavor so much, but waiting to try this with fresh peas when are in season.

Fettuccine with peas

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Pasta | Recipe Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients
Fettuccine Pasta - 2oz(56 gms approx)
Peas - 1/2 to 2/3 cup
Onion - 1 small
Garlic - 1
Salt & Pepper - to taste
Olive Oil - 2 tsp

Procedure

First bring a pot of water into boil, add salt & pasta and cook the pasta as per the package instructions.

In the mean time, finely chop the onions & garlic into small pieces, heat the pan with olive oil and add the onions & garlic.Saute till the onions becomes translucent,then add the peas & saute it in oil for 2 mins.

Then add the enough salt & pepper and 1/2 cup of water and cook the peas till it becomes soft.

By the time, the pasta would be ready, drain it from the water and keep it ready.Reserve some pasta cooked water.

Once the peas is completely cooked, add 1/2 of the cooked peas mixture into mixie/blender jar and grind into smooth paste and add it back into the remaining peas mixture.

Now add the pasta cooked water(as needed) and again bring the mixture into low boil,keep the flame in low and added the cooked pasta.

Gently mix it well.

That's it,Fettuccine with Peas is ready to serve.Serve hot.

Related: How to make Chickpeas Pasta

Notes:

I have used macaroni, fusilli & farafalle pasta for this recipe and all turns out super tasty.
Depends on creaminess of pasta you want, you can add up to 2/3 cup of peas.

Friday, July 3, 2015

Focaccia Bread With Rosemary and Garlic | Italian Bread

Focaccia Bread, a soft and spongy Italian Bread. It's one of our favorite breads to have with soup. Though i make them occasionally, we enjoy it wholeheartedly every time i make it at home.

When i first searched for some Italian bread to try at home, i found this focaccia bread.The dough was similar to the pizza dough, so i was confident that there wont be any major disaster and tried it and as expected it turned out so good and i simply loved the golden crust on the top.

For the first time, i baked this bread in a small round pan and my bread turned out thicker than the typical Focaccia bread and also it was very spongy. Later i tried the same in a larger baking sheet and it turned out the perfect Focaccia bread.

Though Focaccia Bread is a flattened bread, we like it better when it's thick. So usually i make it in a small pan so that it will turn out fluffy but you can totally spread the dough thin and bake it as a flatten bread.

When you bake the bread at home, it's all about how you want, right? So bake the way you like even though it's not how it's usually done.

I'm glad that i tried this bread and also it's one of the best breads that i have baked so far.Now let see the procedure.

Focaccia Bread With Rosemary and Garlic

Preparation Time : 1 hr | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Bread | Recipe Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients

All purpose flour/maida - 1 cup

Active dry yeast - 3/4 tsp

Olive oil - 3 tbl spn

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Sugar - 1 tsp

Water - required

Crushed garlic - 1 tsp

Rosemary - 1 tsp

Procedure
Mix the yeast & sugar in lukewarm water and leave it aside for 15 minutes or till it's forthy.After 15 mins, it become frothy and it's ready to use.

Now take the flour in a large bowl along with salt and 1 tbsp of oil , mix it well, then add yeast mixture and make a sticky dough with required water.

Then oil the bowl well with 1/2 tsp of olive oil and place the dough in the bowl ,cover it and leave it aside for 2 hours or until it doubles its volume.

After 2 hours,dough double in its size.Punch the dough to escape the air.Take the baking dish, grease it well with olive oil and keep it ready.

Now transfer the dough into baking dish and stretch it to the size of the pan with your fingers.
Let it sit for 20 mins, in the mean time preheat the oven . After 20 mins the dough slightly raises, make little dimples on the surface of the dough with your fingers.

Drizzle the remaining 1 &1/2 tbsp of olive oil into the dimples of the dough and sprinkle rosemary on the top and bake it in the preheated oven at 220c/420 F for 15 mins.

Wonderful golden crust focaccia bread is ready. Serve it with a bowl of your favourite soup.

Related: How to make Whole Wheat Bread

Notes:

To proof the yeast, make sure that the water is lukewarm. It should be 105F to 110F. If you don't have a thermometer(like me) to measure the temperature. Put a few drops of water in your wrist, if it's warm & comfortable to you, that's the correct temperature.
Instead of active dry yeast, you can use the instant yeast too which doesn't need any proofing and you can mix it directly with the flour.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Pasta With Tomato & Basil | Italian Pasta recipe| Penne Pasta recipe

Last month, i was hardly at home, we were travelling a lot. so i was afraid that i couldn't post this month BM, but somehow i managed to cook three italian recipe and i'm glad that i took this month challenge,otherwise i couldn't push myself to do it.

So here is the first recipe under Italian dinner recipe. Pasta is a staple food of italian cuisine. When i searched for italian recipe, i found that pasta with tomato & basil is a popular combo, so i tried this recipe and it tastes wonderful. Within 10 days, i made it twice and we love it to the core.

Ok, now let see the procedure.

Pasta with tomato and Basil

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Pasta | Recipe Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients

Penne Pasta - 1 1/4 cup

Tomato - 2 nos.

Onion - 1 (small)

Bell pepper - 1/2

Garlic - 1 tsp (finely chopped)

Basil - 1/2 tsp

Oregano - 1/4 tsp

Chili flakes - 1/4 tsp

Mozzarella cheese - 1/4 cup(grated)

Olive oil - 1 tsp

Procedure

First cook the pasta as per the packet instruction(Bring water to boil & add pasta ,cook for 8-10 approx) along with little salt & few drops of oil. In the mean time, cut onions & bell pepper into thin slices and grind the tomatoes into fine paste.