New York Style Cheese & pepperoni Pizza with Homemade Sauce

This time at the Baking Partners Challenge 10 Swathi had given us 3 recipes for the New York Style Pizza and sauce. Thank you for this wonderful challenge.

I used half the proportion of the crust ingredients and made one cheese pizza and another one was pepperoni, onion & olives. Both the pizzas were extremely good.

Pizza Sauce from here

Total Time: 2 hours

Ingredients:

1 28 oz can whole peeled tomatoes

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

2 medium cloves garlic, grated  (about 2 teaspoons)

1 teaspoon dried oregano

pinch red pepper flakes

kosher salt (I used regular salt)

2 six inch springs fresh basil with leaves attached

1 medium onion chopped fine

Yield 4-3 makes enough for 2 – 4 ½ inch pies depending on how much sauce you like

Method:

Process tomatoes and their juice through food mill, pulse in food processor until pureed, or puree with hand blender. Puree should not be completely smooth, but should have no chunks larger than 1/16 of an inch. Set tomatoes aside.

Combine butter and oil in medium saucepan and heat over medium-low heat until butter is melted.

Add olive oil, onion chopped, garlic, oregano, pepper flakes, and large pinch salt and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant but not browned, about 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, basil sprigs, halves, and sugar. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to lowest setting (bubbles should barely be breaking the surface), and cook, stirring occasionally, until reduced by 1/2, about 1 hour. Season  to taste with salt. Allow to cool and store in covered container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

Vegetable Super Supreme Pizza With Tomato Sauce for 1st Home Bakers Challenge

This is the first Home Baker's Challenge started by Priya Suresh and hosted by  Divya Prakash.

This month challenge is Pizza.  We were given  4 different pizzas - One pizza with pizza sauce, One without pizza sauce, then a pizza with pesto and the fourth is pizza with Indian touch, Naanizza. I chose the first one and made super supreme vegetable pizza with thick crust and a cheese pizza with thin crust.

The pizza was much better than the store bought ones as the vegetables and all the ingredients used were so fresh and for sure the outcome was too good. 

I have used onions, olives, capsicum and loads of cheese to your liking.

Thank you Priya  & Divya for this wonderful challenge. Since my daughter could not enjoy this pizza just waiting for her to come so that I can make this one more time for her.

Focaccia

Focaccia is a very popular flat oven-baked Italian bread in Italy . Don’t get scared with the name thinking its gonna be a big task in baking this. I tell you it’s a very simple and lovely bread, especially for the kids snack box. Ofcourse don’t need any special gadgets to make this.

I have given a small twist by adding  little bit of spices according to my taste buds. No worry on the butter or egg as  just few ingredients  like flour, yeast, salt,  olive oil and ofcourse the main ingredient is the  Italian herbs is just enough to make this. 

As I baked the aroma of the Italian herbs was completely  in the nook and corner of the house. You can top this with onion, cheese and meat or flavored with  your choice of vegetable. I just loved it to be just with the onions as the taste with onion was too good.

This rustic Italian bread is perfect as an appetizer served with a dipping oil  with garlic and herbs into the oil or a side to your favorite pasta dish.

I loved to have it with tea and indeed  good for breakfast too.

Adapated this recipe from showmethecurry.com

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour – 2.5 cups

Warm Water –  ½ + 1/3 cup

Active Dry Yeast – 1 tsp

Sugar – 1 tsp

Salt – 1 tsp

Olive Oil – 3 tbsp + 1 Tbsp for coating the bottom of the pan +2 tbsp for coating the dough

Red chilli flakes – I have used this  its optional

Rosemary but I  have used dried mixed Italian herbs – 1 tsp

Onion – 1/4 small, sliced finely

Lasagna with Meat

(For the vegetarians you can add up carrots, cabbage, capsicum, spinach and make this)

Lasagna, Lasagna is what I hear from my daughter often as she loves it. Its been sometime in my mind to make this dish, something or the other never got an opportunity. Finally  I made it for last nights dinner. Very filling and yummy, infact I felt it was  high on calories once in a while its okay to  have such heavy stuffs.

I have to introduce you guys to one more member of my family he is "Kooky" he such an adorable parakeet. He is all the time on my shoulder when I am at kitchen. He loves cooked pasta, macroni and loves dosa. Whilst making the Lasagna I gave him a piece look how he is enjoying that J