The flour mix is ready,Refined flour is here,Here's curd,Chilled water,Salt,I need to be quick! I'm super hungry!dimpi is trying to make the dish that reaches your house within 30 minutes!You order it and it reaches your place within 30 minutes.You must've guessed it!Or the dish for which you make excuses like, "We can't make it, we don't own an oven!"Pizza!Let's make pizza without an oven!Okay?Let's do it.
The modern pizza that we know of was invented in the year 1889.A Chef named Raffaele EspositoHe was from Naples which is in South of Italy.To impress the queen, he cooked a pizza with the 3 colours of Italy's national flag.Red, white and green.The pizza that he cooked for Queen Margherita became famous as "Pizza Margherita"Even today, "Pizza Margherita" is considered as the oldest and the first pizza to be ever invented!I think we should remember his name as well..Raffaele Esposito and the year of 1889!Mr. Esposito, thank you very much!To cook pizza, we'll need..Refined flour and vegetables.I've added 30% wheat flour into refined flour along with some salt.And you'll need baking powder and baking soda.
If you have time, then you can add yeast into it at night as well.But if you start craving pizza last minute like me,Then you should have baking soda and baking powder as well.Okay?Add some baking soda and baking powder into a small bowl.Add oilAnd mix it well!Add some curd,Now pour some water into it.And here goes our mixture.
Add baking soda and baking powder.Add some more water and make the dough a little more thinner.Make the dough thinner and runny. It won't taste good if it isn't runny.Runny as in, it should be flowy.Let this runny dough rest for a while.Till it is resting, we'll start cutting the vegetables for our pizza.
Done?In a pan, pour olive oil,You can use any oil but make sure that you don't use butter.Ranveer Brar asks you to avoid butter rarelySo please don't add butter into it.Oil enhances the shine and richness. That's very important!Sauté the vegetables lightly, Don't cook it completely.We need to cook it thoroughly since we're going to use a pan.Cook the vegetables slightly.We have started the process of cookingAdd some chili flakes and oregano into the vegetables.
Keep the vegetables aside.Nice!Oregano, chilli flakes, onions,The whole Mediterranean feel, That's coming through!I haven't given it any Indian twistAnd I won't because it has simple flavours and it's better that way!We'll put it in the fridge to make sure that the colour isn't hampered.We've prepared the dough as well as the pizza toppings.Now all we need is the pizza sauce!For the pizza sauce,For a quick pizza sauce, we'll need...Finely chopped onion,Garlic,Let's make the sauce!Pour some oilAdd some garlic,Onion,Slightly sweat the onions and then add fresh tomato puree.I have neither blanched nor peeled the tomatoes,I simply made a puree with whole tomatoes.
I don't want to make the recipe more tedious for no reason.If you have time,Then you can use fresh tomato puree and then strain it.Add some sugar to make it more ketchupy because we like it, don't we?Add some vinegar,Salt,Some oregano,Some chili flakes,Make sure that you dry the water quickly.If it makes the dough wet, then it won't taste good.Look at this,The dough is kind of runny,It should be something like this.Let the dough rest for some more time.Your tomato sauce should be this thick.It is called tomato concassé in Italian.Ideally, you're not supposed to roll your pizza baseBecause the dough is so runny that you can simply spread it with your fingers.
That's why, I was emphasizing more on a runny dough.Because if the dough isn't runny, then you won't be able to spread it.Prick it with a fork like this.Cook this dough evenly from both sides.I'll completely cook it from one side and partially cook the other side.The partially cooked side will be used as a base for our pizza!As you can see, there's a rise.Cook it on a low flame, that's the trick!It has started looking like a pizza base, right?Let the partially cooked side get cooked graduallyAnd spread tomato concassé on top of the other side.Ideally, we all know that Pizza is an Italian dishBut the word "Pizza" is originated from a Greek word "Practo"Because earlier in Greece, flat bread was seasoned with oil, sugar as well as fenugreek and cooked!This used to form clots and they used to savour clotted bread.Practo means clotted bread and that's how the concept of pizza reached the country of Italy.In Italy,Especially in Naples, tomatoes were generally consumed by the indigent locals as they were grown in abundanceSo they used to garnish their bread with pieces of tomatoes and bake it.
That's how pizza was invented!Even today, the tomato sauces from Naples are super famous!Tomato concassé is the authentic sauce recipe from Naples!The sauce from Naples is known as Neapolitan sauceA tomato variety from Naples known as San Marzano tomato,They're long, plum and super juicy!These tomatoes are considered as the king of all tomatoes!Ideally, the sauce made with these tomatoes is called as Nepolitan SauceBut you can call any pizza sauce as Nepolitan sauce or Tomato Concassé!Grate some more cheese just to hold the vegetables together.The most common mistake we make is that we put a lot of cheese on vegetables such that the vegetables are no longer visible.The beauty of your pizza gets covered with cheese!You shouldn't do that.You are going to enhance the beauty of your pizzaThat's why first add cheeseThen add top it with vegetables.