The pizza base is an oven-baked, flat shaped bread made with flour, yeast, warm water, sugar, olive oil etc.. combined together and made into a soft and smooth dough. It is commonly supplemented with a selection of meats, vegetables, and condiments.
- Take warm water, add yeast, sugar, salt, all-purpose flour and mix it. Keep it aside for 10-15 minutes.
- Now take flour, add 5teaspoons olive oil, yeast mixture into it and mix it well to make a soft dough.
- When the dough is ready to add some olive oil on top, coat it properly and cover it with a wet cloth then leave it for resting for around 1 hour.
- Knead again, for 3 minutes and rest for another 30 minutes.
- Take a lump of dough, pat or roll into a pizza base and place on the tava or pan.
- Use dry flour to dust if required and keep it from resting for another 5 minutes.
- Spread homemade pizza gravy as required, and add toppings of jalapenos, pineapple, capsicum, onions, cheese, and olive oil.
- Apply olive oil on the edges of the pizza.
- Switch on the flame(very slow flame) and cook it for some time till the base dough is a little bit cooked.
- Transfer the pizza pan in the oven and bake at 450-475 degrees fahrenheit.
- For thin pizza base keep the dough on the tray and with the help of your fingers spread over the flat tray to make very thin.
- Make holes with the help of a fork and spread the pizza sauce over it.
- Top it up with chicken pieces, onions, capsicum, slices of tomato, cheese, olive oil and keep this in the oven.
- Once the color of pizza changes into golden brown it means that it has been cooked.
- Take it out from oven and let it rest for another 10 minutes then, cut into pieces and serve it hot.