Chicken Tikka Pizza

For Pizza Base :

Combine plain flour, yeast, sugar, salt in a large bowl. Add oil & mix it well. Add warm water (IT SHOULD BE WARM NOT HOT) & make soft dough. Turn the dough out onto floured surface; knead it for 5 minutes or until smooth and elastic. Add extra flour as needed to keep from sticking to hands and surface.

Place the dough in a large bowl greased with oil. Cover the bowl with towel or in a big plastic bag & let it rise in warm place for about 45-50 minutes.

For pizza Sauce : Blanch tomatoes in boiling water for 5 mins on slow flame, peel & chop. Grind the chopped tomatoes with garlic paste & chopped onion till it become paste.

In a pan add butter, add tomato paste(which we make now), chilli powder, salt, sugar, oregano or dry herbs, tomato ketchup and cook till it becomes thick.

Chicken Tikka topping : Cut the chicken into small pieces, clean & wash it. Marinate the chicken in ginger paste, garlic paste ,green chilli paste, curd, tandoori masala, tandoori colour ,salt ,lemon juice for 30 mins.

Heat butter in pan, cook chicken till tender & dry.

After 50 mins dough should be double in bulk. Punch down the dough & divide into 2 parts and shape to fit a lightly greased pizza pan of medium size which has been greased with butter. Prick it with fork.

Apply the pizza sauce. , spread the shredded mozzarella cheese; fill your favourite fillings and topping. This is my 1st pizza of homemade pizza base so I used little toppings.

I used only pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and shredded tandoori chicken.

Pre heat the oven @ 200 degree for 15 mins

Bake it for 20 mins at 200 deg.

Tip : 1st marinate the chicken & then make the dough. so by the time dough is resting you prepare the pizza sauce & after that cook the chicken.

Njoy :)

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