Thick-Crust Pizza

Pizza  is a  flatbread topped with sauce,cheese and baked in a oven.A good pizza is all about the crust and pizza sauce.Fresh pizza sauce gives perfect texture and taste to pizza.Here is no fail recipe, easy to make pizza at home.

Ingredients(For one pizza)

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Pizza base

• All purpose flour-1.5 cup
• Yeast – 1 tsp (instant)
• Salt – 1/2 tsp
• Sugar – 1 tsp
• Water – 1/2 cup(warm)
• Mix Italian herbs-1 tsp

Pizza Sauce-

• Tomato-2 cup chopped
• Onion- 2 tbsp finely chopped
• Garlic-3 cloves
• Red whole chili-1-2
• Oregano-1 tsp
• Black paper-1/2 tsp
• Salt-1/2 tsp
• Suger-1 tsp
• basil-2-3 leaves
• Mix Italian seasoing-1 tsp

Topping-

• Oregano-1 tsp
• Red chili flakes-1 tsp
• Cherry tomato-2-3 halved lengthwise
• Red,yellow,green bell paper-1/2 cup
• Mozzarella cheese-1/2 cup
• Black paper  crushed – 1 tsp
• Black olives-5 halved lengthwise
• Green olives-5 halved lengthwise

Method

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Step 1 – In bowl take  warm water, sugar, yeast and mix then keep aside for 5 minutes.

Step 2– Take flour in one bowl flour  and yeast mixture mix it , add salt knead for 5 minutes then add olive oil and kneed 2o minutes(kneading is very important for perfect brown crust). Cover dough and keep aside for 1 hour.

Step 3 –After 1 hour when you open dough it will be almost double/triple in size. Punch it add 1 tsp Italian herbs, 1 tbsp olive oil, then mix it & knead for 10 minute. Once done keep  in line baking trey and spread it with finger/roll out with rolling pin and place in line baking trey. Cover it for 45 minutes.

Step4-Pizza sauce-Take all ingredients in microwave safe bowl and cook 5-7 minutes,cool it and grind it well.Take grind paste in again microwave safe bowl and cook 2-3 minutes, so sauce will became little dry  and it will give perfect texture to pizza.

Step 5 – Preheat oven to 350f/180c for 10 minutes.

Step 6 – After 45 minutes, top of pizza  base prick with fork and drizzle 1 tsp olive oil  ,cover the dough for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes spread 2 tbsp tomato sauce all over pizza base, put bell paper,olives,red chili flakes,oregano,sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the topping. Place pizza  in preheat oven 180c for 20-25 minutes until the crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.Remove it from oven and allow it to cool for 2 minutes then slice it.

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