Chicken Meatball Pizza for HBC

I'm so much delayed in posting my Pizza for our HBC, I think I'm the last one to post even though I made it long ago. I was so tied up with work and family matters, I hope that you guys will pardon me for the delay, better late than never right? Now let me share the Chicken Meatball Pizza that I made for our challenge. This is a very simple to make pizza and anyone can make it it in jiffy;

                                          

Ingredients:

Base

2 cups of bread flour

1 tsp of yeast

1 tsp of sugar

3/4 cup of warm water

A pinch of salt

1 tbsp of olive oil

Topping

1 cup of green  capsicum (diced)

1 cup of grated mozarella cheese

1 can of Prego tomato sauce

200 g of minced chicken

1 tsp of corn flour

A dash of pepper

A pinch of salt

For the topping take bowl add minced chicken, corn flour, salt and pepper and mix well. Make small balls and keep it aside. Take a pan, add the tomato sauce let it simmer for a couple of minutes then add in the chicken meatballs and cover to cook, then add in the diced capsicum let it cook until the chicken meatballs are cooked, adjust the seasoning. Let this cool until its ready to be applied to the pizza base.

For the base, mix yeast warm water and sugar and let it foam it takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Pour this mixture to bread flour, olive oil and salt mix , knead until everything is well incorporated and set to rise for an hour. Once the dough rise punch it down to release the air and separate the dough to 2 part. Then roll the dough to your preference for thin crust or thick and apply the topping, cheese and bake at 170 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until the base is cooked. I have used 8'' cake pan and applied some olive oil to the pan before laying in the base.

The pizza is ready to be baked, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

I'm sending this post to our beloved sisters blogs Priya's Versatile Recipe and Divya's Culinary Journey

Quick Thengapaal Appam/ Indian Pancake

Ingredients:

750g rice flour
1 tsp of yeast
A pinch of salt
A pinch of sugar
2 cups of water
1/2 cup of cooked white rice
1 cup of coconut milk
1/2 cup of grated coconut

Blend cooked rice, sugar, yeast and grated coconut with a little water then add rice flour and for a couple of minutes. Now pour this mixture into an airtight container with a pinch of salt and let it ferment for at least 7 to 8 hours or overnight (the consistency of mixture should be thick something like idli mixtures)

After the mixture sits to ferment, mix 1 cup of coconut milk to dilute the fermented mixture, it should be watery not thick to make sure you get crispy edges with spongy middle. Mix the coconut milk only when you are ready to make the appam.

You need appam pan, heat appam pan on low flame and pour a ladle of mixture and rotate the pan to get thin and crispy edges and the balance mixture will form spongy middle. Cover and cook until the edges turn golden brown and crispy. Now remove it to a plate and serve with freshly squeezed coconut milk (added with sugar).

Now our Thengapaal Appam is ready to be eaten, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Cinnamon Sugar & Raisins Pull Apart Bread (Egg-less)

For many months I have been admiring many blogger sisters baking breads, different types and shapes which pokes me every day to try my hand on baking bread but some how delayed all this while as I didn't have the gut to try it. The steps seem to be very tedious and I thought I didn't have that much of patience to wait for it but the first step to any major decision are quite tough isn't it, OMG its just baking a bread nothing as major to a liposuction. I went through many recipes from other bloggers' post and have decided that I would choose Pull Apart Bread as my first choice as the process is quite easy and you can choose any filling of your choice to incorporate with the bread.

I love the Cinnamon Sugar and Raisin combo as its very simple and doesn't need much ingredients and they are something available in almost every kitchen. Now let us look at how to make this wonderful, soft and flavorful bread, I have chosen to follow Nags recipe from Edible Garden, thank you so much dear for the wonderful recipe. For the step by step pictorial do visit her website;

Ingredients:
3 cups of all purpose flour 
1 tsp of sugar 
2 tsp of yeast (I used Mauripan) 
1/2 cup of warm milk 
1 tsp of salt 
25 gm of butter, at room temperature 
3/4 cup of milk, at room temperature 
Oil

Filling:
1 cup of sugar 
3 tbsp of butter (at room temperature)
1 tsp of cinnamon powder
2 tbsp of black raisins

In a bowl, mix warm milk, yeast, sugar and leave it aside for it to work its magic (this mixture will be frothy and it's ready to be used it takes approximately 5-10 minutes).

In another mixing bowl add flour, salt, butter and yeast mixture, mix all these ingredients until it comes together and add the 3/4 cup milk until a soft, slightly sticky dough is formed. Apply some oil and cover the dough with a cloth or cling wrap and set aside for 1 1/2 hour.

If you have followed the exact steps this dough will rise, punch and release the air in the dough and roll on a flat surface using a rolling pin to get a rectangle or a square. Apply some butter, sprinkle generous amount of cinnamon and sugar mixture on the flatten dough on the buttered side, add the black raisins on top of this and lightly roll using a rolling pin t slightly embed the raisins.

Cut the dough into 6 strips and stack on top the other strips filling side facing up, now further cut the strips into equal smaller squares and arrange in a well buttered loaf pan. Cut part facing down, once all arranged cover with a wet towel and let the dough rise for another hour.

Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees and bake for 25-30 minutes until its golden brown, once baked apply generous amount of milk on the bread and let it cool down completely. Now our Cinnamon Sugar & Raisins Pull Apart Bread is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!