Kitchen-Kollections

 My favourite show on food network is emeril live. He does everything with so much enthusiasm that it would generate interest in the most unlikely people (like me). My another favourite chef is Gordon Ramsay. His series – Hell’s kitchen and kitchen nightmares are also very good. Recently, my husband and I tried our luck in baking a nice pizza. Making the pizza dough is just not easy…In one of the programs, I saw one chef swirling the pizza dough above his head as if its a giant disc. Imagine, one has to keep pounding the dough for at least one hour before it reaches a level of softness!!! We got to know about this after we made our first pizza. The dough has to be pounded for 1 hr and then it should be kept aside for at least 2 hrs before you flatten it to make a pizza base!!  of course all that pounding is a Man’s work…thats exactly what my dear hubby did I only did the chopping part!!

Well…at least i know somethings..hopefully my next pizza would turn out great. Btw – this pizza is my entry to Culinary Bazaar – A.W.E.D. italiano.

For starters – here is the link for making the perfect pizza dough. Once its done, you can keep it aside and start chopping veggies. I used onions, olives, tomatoes, green pepper, red bell pepper (cut in rings – it looks pretty). In my next pizza, i will add roasted brinjal, mushrooms, jalepenos…and the list goes on …it would be great hopefully.  Olive oil is best to use when making italian dishes. Its healthy too.  Once you flatten the dough, apply a sauce on the base ( i used pasta sauce in half side and on the other side – tomato paste…tomato paste was my hubby idea and it actually it tasted better). Then add all the veggies on top and add the grated parmesan cheese. I saw in one of the food network show, they add two to three types of cheese…well..i cant tolerate eating such huge amountsof cheese so I stick with only parmesan cheese. Sprinkly pepper and bake it in a preheated oven (400F) for 10 minutes. And the Most important thing – place the pizza base on a cookie sheet!!! it helps a lot! another learning!

enjoy the pizza with golisoda or banta! it tastes great!