Veggie Pizza Recipe | Veg Pizza Recipe
Veggie Pizza recipe, made with whole wheat dough and topped with homemade pizza sauce, vegetables and cheese. Whole wheat veggie pizza made using whole wheat pizza base loaded with vegetables and cheese with crispy pizza crust and molten cheese. Few tricks for getting the perfect pizza crust is included in this recipe.
Ingredients
For Whole Wheat Pizza Base
- 3 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoon dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup warm water
- 3 tablespoon olive oil
For Toppings
- 1 onion chopped finely
- 1 capsicum chopped finely
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese
- 5 black olives chopped
- 1 cup homemade pizza sauce
- oregano as needed
Instructions
- Start by making the dough, mix yeast and sugar in warm water. set aside for 5 mins.
- Take flour, salt and olive oil in a bowl. Add in the yeast water and make it into a soft dough.
- Cover and let the dough rise for 1 to 2 hours till it is doubled in size.
- preheat oven to 220 degree c. Heat only the bottom heating element mode in oven.
- Take half of the dough and spread it evenly in a oiled surface till it is circle in shape. Make sure the sides are little thicker than the center.
- Heat a cast iron pan on stove till it is very hot.
- Turn off the heat. Add in little olive oil.
- Place the spread pizza base in the pan and spread pizza sauce on top generously.
- Now sprinkle your topping. I used onions, both colour capsicum.
- Transfer the cast iron pan into the oven, place it in the lowest rack of the oven.
- Cook this for 10 to 12 mins till the base is crispy.
- Now remove the pizza from the oven, spread cheese all over it. Arrange some black olives on top.
- Drizzle little extra olive oil. Pop the pan back into the oven. Now place the oven rack close to the grill on top.
- Set the oven to grill mode and cook till the cheese is bubbly and golden it will take around 2 mins.
- Remove the pan from oven and sprinkle some oregano seasoning.
- Carefully remove the pizza from the pan, slice into triangles.
- Serve.
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Notes
Tips for Crispy Pizza Crust
- Make sure you use cast iron pan to bake your pizza.
- Keep your cast iron pan hot when transferring the dough into the pan.
- Cook in the bottom rack of the oven during the first bake to ensure the base of the pizza gets crispy.
- Whenever you remove the pan from oven, put the cast iron pan on gas flame to ensure that it doesn't loses its heat.
- Drizzle olive oil in the cast iron pan before putting the dough, olive oil helps in getting crisp texture.
Toppings Ideas
- Pineapples, Chicken pepperoni, sausages, cooked chicken, cooked paneer, baby corn, sweetcorn, mushrooms, spinach, figs are some of the pizza toppings you can use.
Nutrition
Serving: 1servingCalories: 625kcalCarbohydrates: 76gProtein: 27gFat: 27gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 44mgSodium: 1599mgPotassium: 532mgFiber: 13gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 1338IUVitamin C: 40mgCalcium: 327mgIron: 4mg
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