yummy pizzas:do you like to make pizzas at home ???
@angelscreator (42)
India
March 20, 2009 3:01am CST
hello everyone,
Today i am gonna try making pizza at home,i have bought the base and some vegetables too .how many of you have made pizzas at home...which would be the best topping for a pizza??Any new variety of toppings you tried out..let me know it!!
Thanks in advance
5 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
20 Mar 09
Pizza is really only another kind of flat bread (like chapati, naan or pita) but baked in an oven with a topping rather than in a pan, on a griddle or in a tandoor. There are some Indian breads which have (or are served with) toppings, very much like a pizza. Like pizza, they tend to be 'fast foods' or 'street foods' (but that doesn't mean they can't be made and eaten at home, of course!)
There's an article about flat breads in general here: http://www.baking911.com/bread/pizza_flatbreads.htm If you already make chapati, roti, paratha or parantha, you could 'invent' (or re-invent) an Indian-style 'pizza'.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
20 Mar 09
I much prefer home made pizza. Mine are different from the shop ones. I use a wholewheat bread dough base which I make in the breadmaker. (Actually, I use equal quantities of white and wholemeal flour). I may add rosemary, sundried tomatoes or chopped olives to the mix which I make with very slightly more water than I would for bread.
Once the dough is ready, I knock it back and stretch it to fit the pizza tin till I have a circle about 1/2 inch thick. The topping can be almost anything you have to hand (in fact, that is what a pizza originally was - a way to make a filling meal with what little ingredients one could afford). I usually start with a tomato and onion paste (which I make while the dough is preparing), topped with mozzarella cheese if I have it, though it's often grated cheddar. Sometimes I include some ground beef with the tomato - rather like a bolognese sauce only drier. On top of the cheese, I might spread some slices of salami, chorizo or other dried sausage or perhaps some diced ham or bacon. I always have to have black olives (and plenty of them) on my pizza and I sometimes add some anchovy fillets as well. The intense saltiness of the olives and anchovy is something that I think makes a pizza authentic.
There are many other toppings - just about as many as there are pizzas baked. A good pizza should have a mix of meat, cheese and the kind of sweet-sharp fruitiness that you get from tomato, pineapple and things like that.
There is actually nothing against having a sweeter pizza (but I doubt that it's called a pizza then). You could use apple butter and plum or apple slices, for example. For that I might make a bread dough with soured cream, cream cheese or parmesan in it. Cheese and apple make an excellent combination. If you use fruit, it must be drier than you would use for a pie or tart/flan because the whole thing is baked at once in a very hot oven.
The proper way to cook a pizza is in a very hot oven (450F) on a stone or other heated plate which is already hot before the pizza goes on it. That way it is cooked very quickly (five to ten minutes) from both top and bottom heat.
@sophie_dfuss (2365)
• Philippines
20 Mar 09
Yes I love to make pizzas at home, I like Pepperoni as toppings or sometimes veggies like JalapeƱo, mushrooms, bell pepper and tomatoes. My little sister wants the Hawaiian pizza (ham and pineapples)
@patzel88 (3310)
• Philippines
20 Mar 09
i have never tried to cook pizza at home, my husband brought us here a layer of pizza at home when he has an extra money, but i really want to know how to cook pizza like there are lots of cheese on toppings and mushrooms, hmmm so yummy i love eating p;pizza which i get starve thinking of it.