MINI PIZZA | HOME MADE PLAIN PIZZA | BAKING

HOME MADE PIZZA, without any preservatives, without store-bought sauces. This recipe describes how to make Pizza sauce, how to make Homemade Cheese for making Pizza at home. Without Oven Mini Pizza for Kids a simple and easy pizza recipe made with wheat flour and fruit salt. It is a no yeast, no maida, no oven pizza recipe. In this recipe, Cheese is made, using paneer.

INGREDIENTS :-

Wheat flour = 1 cup Sugar = 1/2 tsp Salt = as required Fruit Salt = 3/4 tsp Curd = 1/2 cup Cooking oil = 2 tsp Pizza sauce = 2 tsp Cheese = 2 tsp Melted butter = as required

PANEER MAKING:-

1. Heat milk in a pan, when it starts to boil, add lemon juice little by little in low flame.

2. At one stage, the curdling of milk will start, stop adding lemon juice and heat till the whey water separates. Whey water should be clear.
3. Add a cup of cold water and mix well. It helps the paneer to get hard and retains the soft texture.
4. Use a close holed strainer and strain the water, press with a spoon so that all the water is strained thoroughly. Restore this water for making cheese. This water is called whey water. 

5. Open the tap water and wash the paneer once or twice, so that the lemon flavour goes off completely.
6. In a clean cloth, place the paneer and squeeze well so that all the moisture is well drained.
7. After 15 minutes, place the paneer in a bowl. Now it would have crumbled. 

CHEESE MAKING:-

In a mixer jar, add Paneer, required whey water with required salt. In Pulse mode, grind it to get a creamy texture. Add whey water to get the creamy consistency accordingly. Restore it in a air tight container and refrigerate. It can used within 2 to 3 days. Since it does not have any preservatives, we can prepare as and when needed. 

Refer this Blog for HOME MADE PIZZA SAUCE

PIZZA MAKING:-

Preheat a Kadai or Pressure cooker for 10 minutes in high flame. 

Sieve the wheat flour and add it to a plate or bowl. Add sugar, salt and fruit salt. Mix well. Make a well in the centre and add curd. Crumble the mixture and knead. The dough turns sticky. Now add the oil and knead for 5 minutes. 

Grease a plate  with melted butter and spread the dough gently using hands. The edges need to be thick then the inner part. Poke the inner part of the dough with a fork or a toothpick. Spread Pizza sauce and the  homemade Cheese. Bake for 5 minutes in high flame and 10 minutes in medium flame. 

Remove the pizza from the plate using Dosa Spatula. The pizza doesn't stick to the plate. It comes out from the plate easily. 

Homemade  Pizza is ready.

For detailed video recipe in English and in Tamil, 

Click the following link:- MINI PIZZA

See also for, 

PROTEIN WHEAT CAKE

RASMALAI

WHEAT HALWA

Eggless JAGGERY Wheat Cake using PRESSURE COOKER | without OVEN | without GHEE & BUTTER | without MAIDA

 Using Wheat flour and Jaggery, i prepared this soft cake. I added a minimum amount of sugar. 

INGREDIENTS:- ( use the same cup for all measurements)

Jaggery - 3/4 cup

Sugar -1/4 cup heaped

Wheat Flour - 3/4 cup

Cooking Oil ( Sunflower oil ) - 3/4 cup

Lukewarm Milk - 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp (if needed)

Salt - a pinch

Fruit Salt - 2 tsps

Few drops of water

 

METHOD:-

Pre-heat a Pressure cooker with salt and a stand. Do not use whistle and gasket. Pre-heat in medium flame for 10  to 15 minutes.

Grease a tray or bowl or mould with oil and send aside.

In a mixer jar, add Jaggery + Sugar + Wheat Flour and grind till sugar and jaggery are powdered. Restore it in a bowl. 

In the same mixer jar, add oil, milk and mix it in pulse mode for few seconds. 

 

Now add the Jaggery + Sugar + Wheat flour mix to the Oil + Milk mix and grind.

 

Add Fruit Salt with few drops of water. Mix with a spatula and Grind it in pulse mode in mixie for 3 times.

 

Now, add this to the greased bowl and tap the bowl to release air from the mix.

Place the bowl above the stand. Cover with pressure cooker lid. 

Let it bake for 5 minutes in high flame. Turn the flame to low for 30 to 40 minutes.

After 20 minutes, a nice baking aroma arises. Do not open the lid in between. Otherwise, the cake will not be fluffy and soft.

After the stipulated time, uncover the lid. Insert a knife or tooth pick, in cake, to check whether the cake is baked or not. Adjust the time accordingly.

Allow it to to cool  completely.  Scrap the sides using knife. Tap it over a plate.

 EGGLESS SOFT - WHEAT CAKE IS READY.

For Video, Click the link 👉 EGGLESS WHEAT CAKE using JAGGERY

NOTE:-

If needed, instead of sugar, jaggery can be added.

Instead of  1/4 cup heaped sugar, 1/4 cup Custard Powder can be added.

WALNUT COOKIES

Walnuts contain important phytochemicals as well as high amounts of polyunsaturated fats which do offer potential benefits for both brain health and brain function. Omega-3 plays a part by helping to reduce oxidative stress in the brain, but also by helping to improve brain signalling and neurogenesis, which is the creation of neurons.

WALNUT COOKIES

INGREDIENTS:-

Whole Walnuts - 50 gms
Wheat flour - 50 gms
Sugar - 50 gms
Salt - a pinch
Fruit Salt - 1/8tsp
Ghee - 3 tsp
Warm Milk - 3 tsp or as required

METHOD:-

Before preparing the dough for cookies, preheat a kadai with salt and a separator for 10 mins in medium high.
In a mixer jar, add whole walnuts, sugar and wheat flour. Make a powder out of it.
Transfer the contents to a bowl, add salt, fruit salt and mix well.



Now add 2 tsps of ghee and 2 tsps of warm milk. Knead it well. Add warm milk if required, till the dough gets combine. It will turn sticky.

Now add 1 tsp of ghee to the dough and knead for 2 minutes.

Grease little ghee on hands, and divide the dough in small equal parts.Grease an idli mould, place the doughs as shown.

Bake the dough for 15 minutes in sim flame.

After the stipulated time, Insert an knife and check whether the cookies sticks to the knife.

Allow it to cool, unmould it.

Homemade WALNUT COOKIES are ready.

Video Demo for Walnut Cookies:-

See also for
Cashew-Walnut Cake

Walnut Halwa 

Wheat Halwa

CHOCOLATE CAKE

CHOCOLATE CAKE

INGREDIENTS:- (Use same cup for all measurements)

Dry Ingredients.....

Wheat flour = 1 cup

Custard powder = 3 tbsp

Cocoa powder = 3 tbsp

Salt = 1 pinch

Wet ingredients....

Milk  =1/2 cup

Oil / Clarified butter melted = 1/3 cup

Powdered Jagerry/ Naattu Sarkarai = 3/4 cup 

Fruit salt = 1/2 tsp

METHOD:-

For Baking, heat a Kadai/ pressure cooker ( with 1 & 1/2 cups of salt and with a separator), for 15 minutes in medium flame. Cover with lid. It is similar to preheating the oven.

Grease a tray or bowl, for baking with ghee & wheat flour for dusting. Set aside

In a separate bowl, using a siever, sieve wheat flour, custard powder, cocoa powder, salt. It helps in air circulation in the flour.

In another bowl, add milk and oil and mix well. Don't worry, even if it gets curdled. Mix well for a few minutes.  Now add the jaggery powder to it and mix well so that the jaggery is completely dissolved in it.

Now add the dry ingredients to this wet ingredients and continue mixing to avoid lumps in the cake batter. Check the consistency. If it is more watery, add wheat flour to it or if it is thick, add milk to it.

Finally, add fruit salt with two drops of water to the cake mix. Mix gently. Pour this mix to the cake tin/tray/bowl which was greased and dusted. Tap it over the cooktop, to release air from the mix.

Place the tray inside the cooker/Kadai, which was preheated. 

Bake in  Medium Flame for 10 minutes and in Sim flame for 40 minutes. 

After the stipulated time, insert a knife and check if it baked or not. If the batter sticks to the knife, bake it for a few minutes.

The above timings are applicable for the above quantity of ingredients. If you are using half the quantity, adjust the timings, to avoid cake gets burning.

Remove the cake tray and allow it to cool. Cover the cake tray with a plate and tilt it. 

Chocolate cake is ready to serve.....