Veggie Pizza

Recipe: 

Ingredients:

Warm Water - 0.5 cup
Sugar - 1 tsp
Dry Yeast - 1 tsp
Maida (All Purpose Flour) - 2 cup
Salt - 1 tsp
Olive Oil - 5 tsp
Tomato Basil Pasta Sauce - 0.5 cup
Mozzarella Cheese - 1 cup
Oregano - 1 tsp

Toppings:
Your choice of veggies. Below combination tastes great!

• Mushrooms - 1 small box
• Capsicum - 1
• Onion - 1 (optional)
• Broccoli - 1 bowl

Preparation:

1. In a bowl, take warm water, sugar and dry yeast and leave it aside for 5 mins.
2. Then add maida, salt, 3 tsp of olive oil and knead it into a soft dough.
3. Add 2 tsp of olive oil on the side and leave it covered with a muslin cloth for 2 hrs. After 2 hrs, the dough fluffs up. 
4. We divided the dough into 2 equal portions since we had a medium sized pan. Onto the pan, spread aluminium foil, sprinkle some dry flour and slowly spread the dough evenly with the fingers, pushing the extra dough slowly to the outer rim.
5. Next make some fork shapes in the center and spread the pasta sauce. We used the tomato basil organic pasta sauce, but you can use any tomato sauce.
6. Next load it up with the toppings of your choice. We used lots of mushrooms, capsicum, onion and broccoli.
7. Top it with Mozzarella cheese. We love cheese, so we covered it up nicely.
8. Sprinkle some more pasta sauce on the top if you like it.
9. Sprinkle some oregano evenly. You can also sprinkle some chilly flakes if you like it.
10. Preheat the oven for 10 mins at 390 F
11. Now transfer the pizza onto an aluminium tray and put it in the oven to bake for 18 mins.
12. Once its baked, take it out. Use a pizza cutter to slice it. 

Pizza is ready to be served. Enjoy and relish it!

Farfalle Parmigiana

Farfalle is a type of pasta in the shape of a bow-tie, hence it is popularly know as bow-tie pasta in the US. I had read somewhere that the name Farfalla in Italian means "Butterfly". Here is a simple and quick recipe that I tried at home using the butterfly pasta and it turned out yummy.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

Farfalle - 3/4 cup

Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 4 tsp

Salt

Pepper - 0.5 tsp

Onion - 1/2 (chopped)

Tomato - 1(chopped)

Garlic - 1 clove (crushed)

Basil Leaves - 6 (chopped)

Parmesan - 1 cup

Water - 3 cups

Preparation:

1. Bring water with some salt to a rolling boil and add the pasta to it until the pasta is al dente.

2. Meanwhile, until the pasta is ready, we can start with the sauce. Heat olive oil in a pan, add onions and saute it until the onion cooks completely.

3. Add crushed garlic and mix.

4. Once onions are cooked, add tomato, salt and pepper. Let it cook.

5. Once the tomato cooks completely, add farfalle pasta and mix well on low flame.

6. Add parmigiano (parmesan) and mix well.

Basil Farfalle parmigiano is ready to be served.