Mushroom and Feta Pizza

Why eat some store bought stale pizza when you can make healthy pizza at home. Yes I said it, pizza can be healthy if you make it right. Since I perfected the knack of pizza from fresh ingredients, we as a family have stopped eating store bought pizza. It is necessary that you have all fresh ingredients to make delicious and healthy pizza at home. Here is what you need.

 

Ingredients:

For the base

 

2 cups of plain flour

1 tsp of dry yeast

pinch of salt

pinch of sugar

water to make knead the dough

 

For the toppings

1 green capsicum chopped lengthwise

1 onion chopped lengthwise

50 gms button mushrooms chopped lengthwise

1 cup of tomato sauce

2 tsp of dried oregano

1 tsp of chilli flakes

Shredded light cheese

Feta cheese

 

Preparation time: 2 hrs (to cut the preparation time by 2/3rds use pizza bases preferably thin crust)

Cooking time: 20 mins per pizza

 

Mix the flour, yeast salt, sugar and enough water to make dough. Cover the dough and set aside for at lest 30 mins. After 30 mins knead again and cover for further 1 hour. By then you should have a dough which has almost doubled in size due to yeast action. Divide the dough into 2 dough balls.

 

Meanwhile, chop all the vegetables. Mix the tomato sauce and oregano and set aside. Preheat the oven at 180 Deg C.

 

Spread some flour on the bench top and roll the dough to make a round base. The size of this base depends on the pizza stone (if you have one) or oven dish. Using a fork pierce the base at several places. Place the pizza base on the pizza stone.

 

Spread half of the tomato sauce on the pizza dough. Spread a small amount of light cheese on the pizza. Spread all the chopped vegetables on the pizza. Spread some more light cheese on the pizza and spread chunks of feta cheese. Do not smother the vegetables with the cheese otherwise the whole purpose of healthy pizza will be defeated. Sprinkle some chilli flakes.

 

Bake the pizza in the oven for 20 mins or until the feta chunks become golden brown. Enjoy the pizza. You can bring in the variation by adding marinated chicken in BBQ sauce or adding chunks of ham.