Junk Food Made Healthy

All at our house love pizza and I usually buy a pizza base from market and make it at home. Some time back when I started having a regular supply of good yeast I started making the regular base at home too but I still wasn’t too happy with the fact that its all maida… So some days back when I was casually browsing TV I saw a multigrain pizza recipe on Active Cooking on Tata Sky

I loved the recipe and I thought its probably a must try…

The pizza is packed with the goodness of whole wheat flour, roasted channa dal, oats and soya… its an absolute delight… I agree it probably doesn’t have the lightness of a all maida pizza base but we at home didn’t mind it…. infact pretty much loved it

What I used

• 1 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour
• 1.5 tbsp of roasted channa powder
• 1.5 tbsp of soya
• 1/2 cup oats
• 2 tsp of fresh yeast or 1 tsp of dry yeast
• 2 cups water
• 1 tsp of sugar
• salt to taste ( I used about 1.5 tsp)
• 2 tsp of olive oil
• pizza sauce and veggies of choice for topping

How I made it

• Mix yeast with lukewarm water and sugar. Keep aside for about 20 minutes for fermenting (I used fresh yeast and it took only about 10 minutes to look as it is looking in the above picture)
• In a bowl mix all flours, salt and oats. Add the yeast mixture to the above and start the very healing kneading process…When I knead a bread I am actually transported to a different world… I forget all about my tensions and knead knead and knead for about 15 till till u have a nice smooth dough

• Finish the dough with adding the olive oil to it and kneading till it is just about mixed
• Cover and keep aside the dough for about an hour (pls note it will not double in size but still rise a little). Below is my dough after about an hour

• Divide the mixture into 5 equal parts and roll it into a round of about 1/2 inch of thickness or more if u can the pan like crust

• Add the pizza sauce, put some veggies or non veg of choice on top

• Whats a pizza without cheese so add as much cheese as u like on ur pizza…

• And bake in a preheated oven at about 180C for about 15 minutes or till done

U can also choose to blind bake the base before u put veggies for about 7 minutes or so I think next time I make this pizza I will do that so that the cheese doesn’t get overdone

And I am sending this to Champa’s Bake off (my second entry for the week) and YeastSpotting

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