Chicken Fiesta Pizza with Homemade Pizza Sauce
I haven’t tried my hand at
baking bread/s hence I usually buy readymade thin crust bread base for my
pizzas. I’m sharing this recipe is because the pizza sauce, that I make from
scratch, is delicious. This pizza sauce is courtesy my sis-in-law Khorshed. She
taught me how to make this sauce years ago. For me, no other pizza sauce
compares to this. As for the toppings, feel free to use whatever suits your
fancy.
Ingredients for Sauce:
4 large onions, finely
chopped
100 grams mushrooms, sliced
20 cloves garlic, finely
chopped
1 teaspoons ginger-garlic
paste
1 teaspoon red chili-garlic
paste
½ -1 teaspoon Kashmiri chili
powder
3 packets tomato puree
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon chili sauce
2 medium sized green capsicum,
finely chopped
4 tablespoons sugar (or to
taste)
Salt, to taste
¾ -1 tablespoon vinegar (or
to taste)
2–3 tablespoons corn flour
mixed in ¼ cup water
Extra Ingredients:
3 chicken breasts, boiled and
cut into small cubes
6 chicken frankfurters,
lightly sautéed and cut into diagonal rings
6 to 8 slices of chicken
salami, lightly sautéed and cut into pieces
1 onion, sliced for
garnishing
1 medium capsicum, chopped
for garnishing
100 grams mushrooms, sliced
for garnishing
400 grams Mozzarella cheese
(if you’re a health/diet conscious person please use less)
6 six inch pizza breads
Oil
Butter, to dot
Method for Pizza Sauce:
- Heat some oil and fry the finely chopped onions
till translucent. Throw in the garlic and sauté.
- Add the ginger-garlic paste, red chili-garlic
paste, and red chili powder and fry well.
- Add tomato puree, soya sauce, chili sauce and
let it cook till the tomatoes change to a darker color and lose the raw
taste n smell.
- Add the cubed chicken pieces, finely chopped
mushrooms, capsicum pieces and cook for about 2-3 minutes.
- Add the vinegar, sugar and salt. (Adjust all
three according to your taste.) Allow to cook for a minute more.
- Gradually (one tablespoon at a time) add the corn flour mixture to the tomato gravy. It should be of thick, spreadable consistency.
Method
for Pizza:
- Take a pizza bread, spread the chicken pizza
sauce, layer with mushroom slices (I prefer to put the mushroom on the
sauce instead of putting them on top coz on grilling the pizza they tend
to turn dark and look very ugly if you are planning to click a picture).
- Top the mushrooms with mozzarella cheese and
then top the cheese with sausage, salami, capsicum and onion pieces.
- Dot the top of the pizza with a wee bit of butter and grill for about 15-20 minutes or till done and cheese melts and bubbles.
Chef Notes:
- This quantity makes six 6” pizzas.
- I have given the exact amount of sugar and
vinegar as used by me but I advise you to add both, sugar and vinegar,
little by little, and adjust the flavor to your liking when you use it.
- I have chosen chicken as the topping. Feel free
to use whatever topping you prefer.
- I put the mushrooms on the sauce instead of putting them on top (because on grilling they turn dark and spoil the look of the pizza, more so if you are planning to click a photo of it.
- You may share the direct blog-link of the recipe/s but do NOT publish my recipes and my photographs on any blog-site or website without my explicit consent or attempt to pass off my recipe/s as your own. You will be held accountable for plagiarism.
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