Pizza is known to have originated from Italy but it is a popular fast food choice of people of all-ages around the world. Pizza are typically made up of round flatbread called crust with toppings offering wide variety of items. Here is a Tandoori Boti Pizza recipe for you to try at home today.
Whatever flavor you may wish to taste, mozzarella cheese is one of the key ingredient in every pizza recipe.
Introduction of pizza in the Asian subcontinent has seen remarkable innovations in the pizza making it a favorite savory dish as we have tasted its amazing integration with desi flavors like ‘Chiken Tikka’, ‘Seekh Kabab’, ‘Chicken Afghani Tikka’, ‘Tandoori Hot’ and so many other glorious varieties out there.
Talking about the popularity of pizza in Pakistan for instance, someone has rightly said.
Italians may have invented the pizza but Pakistanis have perfected it.
Tandoori Boti Pizza recipe is a way of achieving that perfection. So, if you want to east pizza with desi flavor. Then Tandoori Boti is a right choice for the day.
Small Tandoori Boti Pizza
Ingredients
PIZZA TOPPING
Pizza Topping- For making of Tandoori Boti
- 350 grams Chicken boneless
- 1 tbsp Garlic paste
- 1 tsp Red chilies (Laal mirch kooty hue)
- ½ tsp Paprika for color (optional)
- ½ tsp Tandori Masala
- Salt to your taste
- 1 tbsp Vinegar (Sirka)
- ¼ cup Yogurt
- 1 to 2 tbsp Oil
Pizza Topping- Other ingredients
- 1 Onion chopped (Small sized)
- Capsicum
- Tomato
- Cheddar Cheese as required
- Mozzarella Cheese as required
- Black Olives as required
- Chili flakes
- Oregano as required
PIZZA DOUGH
- Warm water as required
- 2 tsp Instant yeast
- 4 cups All purpose flour (maida)
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Oil
Instructions
Making of Chicken Tandori Boti for the Pizza Topping
- In a bowl make a marinade by adding chicken boneless pieces, garlic, crushed red chilies, tandoori masala, salt, vinegar and yogurt. You can also add ½ tsp of paprika for coloring. Mix them well and marinate for at least 30 minutes.
- Cook the marinade on the high flame for 2 minutes. Then cover the pan and cook it on low flame until chicken becomes tender. Uncover the pan and now cook it on high flame until liquid content is dried. Turn off the flame and keep aside.
Dough Formation
- Take ½ cup water in a bowl and add ½ tsp yeast into it and stir them together. Leave the mixture aside for 10 minutes or the yeast get foamy and dissolved.
- Add 4 cups of all purpose flour, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt and 2 tbsp oil in a separate larger bowl and stir them with your hand. Then gradually add in the yeast mixture and warm water as required. Knead with your hands until the dough gets smooth and elastic.
- Shape the dough into a ball, apply some oil and cover the mixing bowl with plastic wrap. Allow it to rise until double in size by resting for 1 to 2 hours.
- After enough rest punch the dough down. Then place it on flat surface and divide it into six equal pieces. Shape all the pieces into round small pizza breads.
Baking of Pizza
- Grease pizza pan and dust with some flour. Place the pizza bread on the pan and mark a border for the pizza topping around the bread with your finger. Use fork to rough the surface of the bread in between so that pizza topping make a nice bond with the bread.
- Then spread some pizza sauce over the bread. Add in tandoori chicken pieces, chopped onion, capsicum and tomato pieces. Set cheddar and mozzarella cheese as required. Lastly, decorate the topping with black olives. Sprinkle some chili flakes and oregano.
- Bake in preheated oven at 160°c for 20 – 25 minutes.
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