Home made Pizza with a Sri Lankan twist!!!

I have tried several pizza recipes, but I couldn’t find a proper pizza dough recipe for a long time. Some recipes dough gets so hard, if not some may very chewy or sticky. After hunting for so many pizza dough recipes I did come up with my own, which I started practicing for a long time. I made pizza with the same dough several times. My husband seems to be so fond of my home made pizza. Not just because, I made them, I think he loves the thin crust and pizza filling I’m using. May be a little bit of LOVE I add to make it … ;)

I usually do not follow any standard guides to make food. I have my own way of doing it. Therefore, I won't use the same Italian pizza filling for my pizza, it may look more Asian twisted pizza. 

I’m a instagram freak. I have shared a few images of home made pizza in my profile. After awhile I started getting calls and comments asking for the dough recipe. So finally I thought of sharing in public, as you all may would like to share what I experienced. Here we go, let’s starts rolling … :)

Ingredients:

For dough: (Makes two large pizza's)

• 600g (4 cups) plain flour
• 375ml (1 1/2 cups) warm water
• 2 tsp of dried yeast
• Pinch of sugar
• Salt
• 60ml (1/4 cup) olive oil, plus extra for brushing

For filling: (In my Asian twisted way)

• Any meat. (Chicken, Beef, Fish or Sausages)
• 1/2 a cup of chopped or diced onions
• Finely chopped garlics
• 01 chopped tomatoes 
• Finely chopped green chilies 
• Salt, pepper & chili powder (If necessary saffron powder)
• Few tsp of soya sauce

For dressing:

• 1/2 a cup of tomato puree
• 250g of mushrooms (Cut the mushrooms side ways and half boiled them)
• Olives & grated cheese 

Instructions: 
Preheat the oven for 275c.

Making the dough:

• In a small cup, add yeast & sugar finally, add 2tbs of warm water, mix it and leave it to active the yeast. 
• Add the flour, salt in a large bowl, make a small hole in the middle, then add the yeast mixture, olive oil & rest of the warm water. Mix it until it makes a nice dough. 
• Cover the dough with a clean white cloth, leave aside for 1 hour. 

Making the filling:

• Heat the pan with some oil or butter. 
• Add all the ingredients under filling mixture. Finally add salt, pepper and the rest of the spices as you prefer. 

• After one hour, roll up the dough and divided the dough into two separate portions. 
• Roll the dough, in a pizza tray and keep in the oven for 3 Sec until dough gets bit bake. (Should bake half way).
• Once the dough is done half way, turn the dough upside down and grease the dough with tomato puree or some other sauce or topping you prefer. 
• Then add the filling on top of it,  then half boiled mushrooms and olives, finally covered with cheese. 
• Again, put the pizza into the oven for a few minutes, until the cheese gets melted.  

Serve yourself with a glass of coke!!