Friday, February 6, 2009

I became a Pizza chef..... You can also be one...

It was a sluggish Sunday morning and after having a very tasty breakfast prepared by wife, I was lying on my bed aimlessly, just waiting for the time to go. Suddenly my daughter came to me and asked me if I am willing to do some activity and then she brought some art books which we started colouring.
As I was busy with my daughter, I realised that I was colouring a pizza portion and it stuck me, as to why I should not make a pizza. Just because everyone known to us has bought, we also bought a microwave oven and believe me, my wife uses that to store things, that she wants to keep it out of sight of my daughter and self.
Then I told this idea to my daughter and she also seemed like the same and we both went to my wife and shared her the idea. For a minute, she did not want to entrust a Sunday Afternoon Lunch to a person, who has always thought that the kitchen belongs to the next house. Then reluctantly she agreed. 'A Father is always a super hero for any child', my daughter is no different, she immediately called my parents and my sister, and informed them not to prepare anything for lunch. The plot is now set.
We went to the nearby Reliance Fresh in Ullagaram for buy the necessary ingredients for preparing a pizza. Unfortunately, the Pizza base was not available. My daughter felt very disappointed, though my wife felt relieved. But I did not want to give up, went to Food World in Nangallur, negative. Then finally we got the Pizza bases in Nilgiris Super Market in Nanganallur.
Then, I bought Eight Pizza bases of the size 6 inches. Then bought capsicums, onions, tomatoes, panneer, cheese, butter, frozen sweet corn, hot and sweet sauce, chat masala.
Having bought everything, arranged everything on the table in front of the Microwave Oven, tested if the Microwave oven works, it did. Then I asked my wife for a recipe book and she helped me with a book by 'Mallika Badrinath'. As I was reading that I realised that she had given the way it has to be prepared using using the tawa and induction stove, but not Microwave oven.
So, threw away the book and thought I will follow my instincts.

1) First and foremost, I sliced all the vegetables and collected everything in a shallow microwave bowl, then added a cup of frozen corn and then added a little water and boiled the same in the Microwave for 5 minutes.
2) I applied butter on the pizza bases and got it toasted in a normal tawa, so that it became a little crispy.
3) Took the panneer and got the same slightly heated that in the microwave for 2 minutes.
4) Also using a mixie, I made chilli flakes using dried red chillies.
5) Once I had all these ready, I took one of the base and grated cheese on top of that, so that it covered the top portion of the pizza base.
6) Then I kept it in the oven for 30 seconds, so that the cheese melted on the base.
7) I took the paneer pieces and arranged it on the base.
8) For those who need the pizzs to be a little spicy, this is a good time to put some chilli flakes on the pizza base.
9) Poured some sauce, made a plus design and a round on the pizza base.
10) Now, arranged the vegetables and corn we have already boiled as per the need.
11) Again grated some cheese on top of the toppings
12) Kept this in owen for 2 minutes in High temperature.

Pizza is ready to be served......

My daughter, without knowing the fact she was a guinea pig, claimed that she has to be served the first pizza and everyone agreed willingly. Once she had, the first comment that she told was," Appa you can start Venky Corner" ( Pizza Corner is her favorite pizza outlet in Chennai). This gave enough confidence for others to taste the pizza and improvised it with each and every pizza I made. Honestly, my family is waiting for me to try my next recipe and so am I.

2 comments:

Karthick Prabu said...

Toooooo good.

Your daughter is just too good.

Would love to see a picture of the pizza that you prepared ;-)

Did you take photos at every stage of cooking?

Madhu Nair said...

U mite want to try adding some olive oil before baking...