kers Challenge, started by Priya Suresh akka of Priya’s Versatile Recipe. The time I saw the announcement, I knew I had to be a part of it. The main intention is to give a challenge every month, which has to be completed within the stipulated period and posted within the due date. This month’s challenge is hosted by Divya Prakash of Divya’s Culinary Journey and the theme was pizza.
Pizza has been on my to-do list, ever since I got the oven last year. But as usual, with a lot of things, I’ve been procrastinating like mad – later, later, later… My Rasha always complained, “Ummi, you have been promising pizza and nothing’s happening!!!” So when the challenge was up, I was the happiest person. Finally, I would go ahead and make my word to her a reality for the sake of this challenge.
The whole process was really fun. I enjoyed doing the base, the tomato sauce and the toppings, which I thought was quite too overloaded, but then for a family like mine, who require heavy dinners, it was OK. Hehe… Thank you so much Divya for this challenge, if it was not for you, I guess it would have been a still-pending promise!!!! 🙂
Chicken Nuggets Vegetable Pizza
Ingredients
- For pizza dough:
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 tsp active yeast
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- Ingredients:
- 1 large tomato or 2 medium tomatoes ripe, chopped
- For tomato sauce:
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- A pinch of black pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
- For topping:
- 10 pcs chicken nuggets chopped
- 1 small capsicum chopped
- 1 small tomato chopped
- 10-15 olives slit
- 1 small onion chopped
- Mozarella cheese as required
Instructions
- Let's start with the pizza dough. Mix the yeast into the warm water and keep aside.
- Add the flour and the olive oil into a large bowl and rub in the oil.
- Pour in the yeast mixture and start kneading. I added another 1/2 cup water approximately to get the dough together.
- Knead for atleast 5 minutes. Rub sufficient olive oil in the bowl and keep the dough in it, covered for 1 hour or till it doubles in size.
- For the tomato sauce - Heat a saucepan. Add the olive oil and let it heat.
- Add the tomatoes and all the ingredients and cook continuously on low flame till the tomatoes get all smashed up and becomes in the form of a sauce.
- If the mixture starts sticking to the pan, add little water till there is no sign of tomato pieces at all. It took me around 30 minutes. Keep aside to cool.
- Now to assemble the pizza, Preheat the oven at 200 degrees. Nicely oil your pizza pan.
- Punch the dough and transfer it to the pizza pan.
- Slowly, with your hands, stretch the dough to cover the pizza pan completely.
- Now spread the tomato sauce on the base.
- Sprinkle all the other ingredients from nuggets to onion randomly to cover the base. Finally top with grated mozarella cheese till the top portion is covered.
- Bake in the oven for around 15-20 minutes till the crust is done and the cheese melts. Serve warm!!!
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| My overloaded pizza… 🙂 |
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| U can see, I’d served HUGE slices!!!! Hehe… |
Now comes the fun part, after serving a big slice of pizza to Rasha, she very conveniently pulled out all the veggies – I admire the way she took it out from all that cheese!!! -, placed it neatly on the side of her plate and had the “remaining” pizza. Azza loved all that greens that were so beautifully assembled that she ate that up once “thaatha” was done with her eating. So much so for my kids!!! 🙂
yummy cheesy pizza … Todays post : http://nayanas-kitchen-kreations.blogspot.in/2013/05/ice-apples-and-mango-smoothie.html
thank u so much nayana… 🙂
Yummy:) and a diff one:)
thank u so much sireesha… 🙂
Have seen quite a variety and now its your version of an inviting pizza. I see nuggets, I see veggies and I see the layer of awesome cheese on top.
thank u so much navaneetham…. lovely words…
Yuppy its pizza….delicious it looks.
thank u so much, latha… 🙂
Yummy chicken nuggets pizza, sure it is going to be a kid's favorite pizza .Loved it.
Happy to follow your blog.
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thank u so much poornima…
yummy and very unique combo….
thank u so much priya…
yummy cheesy pizza..
thank u so much saranya… 🙂
looks yummy and delicious with nuggets and veggies….
thank u so much dear…
Drooling here ….. Pizza is my favorite, loved it !!!
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thank u so much shruthi…
yummy and cheesy pizza..
thank u so much dear…
The pizza with its unique toppings looks irresistible!
thank u so much dear… 🙂
Great one Rafeeda… all these things look so complicated, but are so simple in reality.. love your version..
thank u so much nupur… 🙂
Great combo and looks so yum!
thank u so much dear…
So cheesy and delicious,Raf! 🙂
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thank u so much rita…
sooooo cheezy…love to have a bite
thank u so much divya…
Love the oooyi gooyi cheesey ones .Now that u have perfected pizza I am coming over.
thank u so much meena…
we now make a point to have 'pizza night' every friday- i prepare the base in advance so i dont have to toil in the kitchen before the weekend start! I am going to try your chickennugget topping, looks so delicious!
that's a good suggestion, jehanne… i'm also thinking of freezing small bases so that i can make them when the kids need them… 🙂
Pizza looks yummy and inviting.. So glad that you enjoyed this challenge.. 🙂
thank u so much divya… 🙂
tempting pizza. looks great Rafeeda.
thank u so much dear… 🙂
Lovely combo.. Delicious.. Wish to have a slice Rafeeda 🙂
thank u so much nilu…
Awesome idea of using nuggets, wish I could grab it right now 🙂
thank u so much ambreen… 🙂
Hey Rafeeda, Thanx for stopping by my blog… so glad to have come across u and ur wonderful blog :)… I am gonna follow u 🙂
thank u so much dear… 🙂
Pizza looks yummy. Nice combo and topping.
thank u so much uma… 🙂
pizza luks really yumm n i can have a slice with smile..
thank u so much usha dear… 🙂
Will surely try out this one….kids r going to love it for sure!!!
thank u so much priya… 🙂
We all love overload pizzas. beautifull done.
thank u so much pallavi… 🙂
Pizza looks gorgeous, hmm, chicken nuggets make will probably make it insane good too- thanks Ms. Raf!
thank u so much tisa ji… 🙂