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Monday, July 9, 2012

No Cheese Whole Wheat Tandoori Chicken Pizza & announcing a chota-sa break

Its been a long time since I have been around in the food blogging world.. guess its one week... yes that seems long to me. My system crashed and the mother-board doomed. I am not sure when everything will be back to normal and hence have decided to take a break till I am back to Chennai... Will miss all your posts and will not be able to hop in as usual... So take care till I am back... I will be trying loads of new recipes in the meantime and hence will have a cartload to blog about when I am back. :)
As promised I am publishing my pizza post now.

Healthy whole wheat pan pizza crust topped with tandoored chicken pieces and an olive-oil mayo sauce. Guilt free indulgence

I have a thing with yeast... I am terrified to use it. The first time, I tried activating yeast, it didn't even rise and that was the last time. But I have always been drawn to all the yeast-ed recipes out here. My mom uses yeast in making aappams and since she is around me now, I mustered my confidence and started working with yeast... to be frank it was amma who did it and me just popping my head in at times to check if the yeast had risen. So finally I activated it... it doubled and tripled in volume by and by...

OMGosh. I was too excited. Only after I activated the yeast did I think about "What to make with it"... I have been longing for pizzas for quite sometime since I have been put on a no-outside-food diet these days. What best than making it at home. Went for a healthier version with the wheat crust and no cheese but I will be trying the cheesy versions very soon. The result was a healthy yet deliciously creamy pizza which everyone loved. Now off to the recipe. Again see ya guys... Will be back in a month with lots more to offer...

~*What U Need*~
For the Whole wheat crust

Whole wheat flour - 1 cup
Active dry yeast - 1 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Luke warm water - 1/2 cup
Olive oil - 1 tsp
Salt- 1/4 tsp

For Pizza topping
Tomato chunks - 1/4 cup
Onion rings - 1/4 cup
Shredded Tandoori chicken pieces - 1/2 cup
Garlic mayo - 2 tbsp
Pizza Sauce - 3 tbsp

For garlic mayonnaise cream sauce
Mayonnaise - 1/4 cup
Garlic cloves - 2
Heavy Cream - 2 tbsp
Olive oil - 1 tsp

How I Made:
The pizza crust
Dissolve sugar in warm water and add yeast to it. Set aside until frothy. Meanwhile combine whole wheat flour and salt. Make a well in the middle and pour the yeast mixture and olive oil. Knead the mixture well until it is no more sticky. You can add few spoons of atta if needed. Transfer the dough to an oiled bowl and leave it aside until it doubles in volume. Transfer this dough into a greased baking tray and evenly press this dough to form a thin or thick crust.

Garlic mayonnaise cream sauce
Mix together all the ingredients and whisk well till fully incorporated. I mixed 2tbsps of mayo with 1 crushed garlic clove and spread it on the base before topping with pizza sauce. The remaining mayo I mixed with the other ingredients and used it to top the pizza instead of cheese.

Spread the garlic mayo followed by pizza sauce, arrange veggies and tandoori chicken over the prepared crust leaving 1/2 " on all the sides. Bake the pizza for 25-30 mins at 220 deg C or until crust turns golden brown in color.