This pizza is covered with melted cheese, crunchy onions, black olives, capsicum, mushrooms, soft corn and spicy jalapenos or pickled green chilies.
Makes 2 pizzas
Time: If using ready made pizza bases, preparation time: 30 minutes. Or if making your own dough, then preparation time: 3 hours
Ingredients:
DOUGH:
- 1 recipe of home made dough base, already published, or use 2 ready made pizza bases
- 250 gm tomatoes blanched (put in hot water and peeled) and chopped finely
- ½ cup ready made tomato puree
- 4-5 flakes garlic - crushed
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 bay leaf
- ½ tsp vinegar
- salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- 1 tbsp oil
TOPPING:
- 1 onion-cut into half and then cut into thin rounds to get semi circles
- ½ cup tinned corn kernels or cooked fresh corn
- a few slices of pickled jalapenos, (or green chillies)
- 10 - 15 olives - cut into slices
- 7 - 8 sliced mushrooms
- 2 small-sized capsicum, diced
- 150 gms mozzarella or pizza cheese - grated
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Method / Instructions:
- Prepare the pizza base as given recipe or use 2 ready made bases.
- To prepare the tomato sauce, heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan. Add garlic. Stir and immediately add all other ingredients of the sauce. Bring to a boil.
- Lower heat and simmer on low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally until it is reduced in quantity and thick enough to spread without being runny.
- Spoon the prepared tomato sauce over each pizza base, leaving 1/2" all around the edges.
- Brush the edges with olive oil.
- Sprinkle 1/4 of the grated cheese on each base.
- Sprinkle onions. Sprinkle some corn and jalapenos too.
- Sprinkle left over mozzarella cheese. Arrange olives, mushrooms, and capsicum. Drizzle some olive oil.
- Place on the wire rack of the oven (not tray) and bake at 180°C (350°F) for 15 minutes until golden and crisp.
- Serve hot.
Best Wishes.
