Homemade Chicken Sausage Pizza

Who doesn't love pizza and that too if it is homemade, then everybody in the house will have more slices without thinking about the calories. I never thought that I would be preparing pizza from scratch. But once I tried making at home, we will never have  one from outside.

Assembling the pizza

We can have our desired toppings. We can make the sauce before hand and refrigerate and we can use when making pizza or pasta.

Ready to get baked....

The process of making pizza looks big and tiring, but once started it will be easy and simple. You can use your own assorted veggies. I made the pizza base using maida, we can also make this using wheat flour, but it will be little dense. We can also use dried or fresh herbs like thyme, dill or rosemary of choice for the sauce,whatever it is, this will taste amazing. Just try this out once and you will find it easy and will try to make often.

For veg pizza, add your favorite veggies. Instead of sausages you can also add fried chicken pieces. Pizza base and the sauce will remain the same for all the pizza, only the toppings differ.

As Valentine’s day is coming, give a surprise pizza lunch or dinner to your loved ones and see the magic….

Ingredients:

For the Dough:

1. Maida- 2 Cups
2. Active Yeast- 1 tbsp
3. Warm Water- ½- ¾ Cups
4. Sugar- 1 tbsp
5. Salt- as required
6. Olive Oil- 2 tbsps

For the tomato Sauce:

1. Tomatoes- 3 nos
2. Garlic ( chopped)- 8- 9 Cloves
3. Oregano- 1 tbsp
4. Basil- 1 tbsp
5. Salt- as required
6. Olive Oil- 2 tbsps

For the filling:

1. Chicken Sausages- 5 nos
2. Capsicum- 1no
3. Onions- 1 no
4. Tomato- 1 no
5. Mushrooms- 5- 6 nos
6. Mozzarella Cheese- to cover the pizza

Method:

Preparing the dough:

1. Mix warm water along with sugar, salt and yeast. Pour this yeast mixture on to maida which is taken in a big bowl. Mix well using hand or a wooden spoon.
2. Transfer this onto a floured surface and mix properly using both the hands. Add more flour if the dough is sticky. Take care that the dough shouldn’t be dry.
3. Rub olive oil on top of this dough and cover this using a cling film, keep this aside till the dough doubles, for about 1 hour. Meanwhile prepare the sauce (Method of preparing the sauce is below) and cut the vegetables.
4. After 1 hour, knead and punch the dough and keep this aside for 10 minutes.
5. Grease a pizza tray with oil and spread equally the dough with oiled hand into a round disc or desired shape. Keep this aside.

Preparing the sauce:

1. Blanch the tomatoes, by dropping the tomatoes in boiling water. after about a minute or 2, the skin of the tomatoes will peel off.
2. Remove the tomatoes and remove the skin and seeds. Cut it into small pieces.
3. Heat oil in a pan, add chopped garlic, tomatoes and stir well it forms mushy.
4. Add oregano and dried basil, stir and add little water. Simmer on low flame for about 5- 10 minutes.

For the topping:

1. Cut the sausage into round pieces and lightly fry in oil. Keep this aside.Cut all the vegetables into cubes.
2. On the round disc, Spread the prepared sauce equally by covering the surface.
3. Over this place the cubed vegetables and sausages as desired and sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top covering the pizza.
4. Preheat the oven for 400 degrees C.Bake this pizza in the preheated oven for about 20- 25 minutes or till it turns golden brown in colour. Enjoy this yummy pizza.