Whole Wheat Pizza (with homemade dough)

Hello :) I have been away for almost a month now from this little space of mine. Been busy with various other things from work, to guest at home to fighting a flu. Now am over it all. Also, last month has had a lot of tragedies worldwide, with the Sandy Hook school shootout to the deadly ordeal of the Delhi girl. These two incidents really tugged at my heart deeply and contributed towards my being away from this space, as I was too disturbed and spent a lot of time reading about them :( Just yesterday I penned my thoughts of the unfortunate Delhi girl, into a poem (Shades of shame). RIP all those lovely souls! 

Meanwhile, some of you enquired about why I haven't been posting... thankies for thinking of me, it does feel great to be missed :) So, here I am with this brand new post, one I am truly proud of :) I made this today for lunch. I have been cooking a lot lately as we have been having loads of guests at home... but when it comes to daily meals for the two of us, I get lazy :P Today I had no clue what to make until it was 12 noon! :D

After mentally brainstorming, I settled for this recipe which I had in my head for a while now. I used my fool proof recipe for making the yeast dough and with just tomato ketchup and veggies at hand, created this yummilicous pizza, which by the way is made up of wholewheat with not a pinch of all purpose flour! :) 

For all those who have this misconception that home made pizzas are difficult to make or do not taste as good as store bought ones... well, make these once and you would agree with me that home made pizzas are super yummy and being healthier, you would think twice to order form out next time :)

Makes : 2 medium sized pizzas

Serves : 2

Prep Time & Waiting Time (for dough to rise) : 1 hour

Cooking Time : 20 mins

 Ingredients:

For the dough:

Wheat flour - 2 cups

Yeast - 1/2 tbsp

Sugar - 1/2 tbsp

Salt - a pinch

Water - as needed

Olive Oil - as needed

For the toppings:

Tomato Ketchup - as needed

You can use any combination of veggies that you like. 

I used - Onions, tomatoes, baby corn, capsicum and sweet corn.

Pizza seasoning - as needed,

Rec chilli flakes -  as needed

Cheese - 1 cup, grated

Method:

• I followed this procedure [How to make yeast dough?] to prepare the yeast dough, only that I used only wheat flour and no all purpose flour. Just minus the 1/2 cup of all purpose flour and proceed with the recipe as is.
• While the yeast dough rises, chop all the veggies and keep aside.
• After an hour the dough would have doubled. Half it into two balls.
• Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
• Dust the work floor with a bit of flour and toss one ball on it.
• Knead for a minute and then roll it out into a flat round with about 3/4 inch thickness.
• Fold in the ends a bit to form a mini wall of sorts and using a fork poke holes in it randomly, to ensure even cooking.

• Transfer the dough onto a greased plate and smear tomato ketchup evenly.
• Spread out the chopped veggies over this, sprinkles some pizza seasoning and salt.
• Generously sprinkle grated cheese over. Smear a little oil on the sides, along the crust if you like them to become a golden brown.
• Bake for 10-15 minutes at 170 degrees. Mine were done in 10 minutes.
• Take out of over, sprinkle with red chilli flakes and pizza seasoning and serve hot :)

• This recipe calls for very basic ingredients. I used easily available tomato ketchup instead of pizza sauce or tomato puree. It turned out perfectly well though.
• Play around with the topping and get as creative as you can get :)