Veggie Pizza

My kids love home made pizza and it's been awhile since we ordered pizza from outside. It tastes yummy and we can customize the toppings as needed. I listed the ingredients I usually use, but you can replace them with your choice. Here is the recipe to make two thin crust pizzas...

Ingredients for Crust:   

• Unbleached/regular All Purpose Flour - 2 cups 

 

• Yeast - 1 packet

• Sugar - 1 tbsp
• Salt to Taste
• Water - to make batter
• Olive Oil - 1 tbsp

Ingredients for Toppings:   

• Crushed garlic (3 to 6 cloves per pizza)
• Black pepper powder
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Pizza sauce (or tomato paste)

 

• Shredded Mozzarella Cheese or Mexican style blend cheese

    

• Onions
• Green/Yellow Peppers (Capsicum)
• Olives

     

• Mushrooms
• Artichokes(optional)

     

Pizza dough preparation:   

• Warm one cup of water and add little bit salt, 1 tbsp of sugar and 1tbsp of olive oil. Mix it well and then add 1 packet of Yeast (1/4 oz) and mix it again until the yeast is completely dissolved in the water. Keep it aside for couple of minutes.
• Add the warm water to the all purpose flour and mix it well. If the water is less, add more warm water(without yeast) and knead the dough. Keep it covered with wet cloth and keep it in warm place like oven/Microwave.
• Keep the dough in the oven/warm place for an hour or until the batter doubles.

Pizza preparation:   

• Take the pizza pan, apply olive oil to the surface with a brush.
• Optional: you can spread the all purpose flour on the pan and dust it. But my kids don't like the flour on the bottom of the pizza.

• Keep the pan aside. Now take half of the batter prepared above (for one pizza) onto a flat surface and press it with a rolling pin to make it into round shape.
• Place the pizza base on the pizza pan.
• Pour 2 tbsp of olive oil and spread it with a brush.
• Add tomato paste/pizza sauce and spread it evenly with a brush.

• Now sprinkle little bit salt, black pepper powder, and then add crushed garlic.

• Add the vegetables to the pizza (mushrooms, capsicum, onion, olives, artichoke etc)

• Spread shredded cheese.
• Preheat the oven for 375 F degrees and then place the pizza for 25 minutes. You can adjust the timing based on how crispy you want your pizza.
• Remove from the oven and serve hot.