Showing posts with label garden pizza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden pizza. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2009

A simple dinner !

With the arrival of the summer we can see the markets flooding with all the nature's best produce and colorful vegetables. Some weeks before we found a semi home made pizza with zero trans fat and lesser fat-cheese in the frozen food section. From then on, it became our routine to make a colorful dinner on weekends with that store bought frozen pizza topped with our homely choices along with the natural sides and fresh fruits as desserts.

After my last post on dinner etiquette , my eagerness to find the various modes to eat certain food has gone wild . So wanted to share about the facts on food that has to be eaten with fingers:)

What is a finger food?
Finger food is food eaten with the hands without using any knife, fork, chopsticks, or other utensils.
In some cultures, food is almost always eaten with the hands.
Exampe: 1.Ethiopian cuisine, food is eaten by rolling various dishes by Injera bread.
2. Indian food (roti, rice, dosa) is mostly eaten with hands .(we can use a fork if rice is served with meat and veggies . Use a spoon if served like soup consistency ).

Examples of generally accepted finger food: (courtesy - wikipedia)
Miniature beef pies, sausage rolls, sausages on sticks, cheese and olives on sticks, chicken drumsticks or wings, spring rolls, miniature quiches, samosas, onion bhajis, potato wedges, vol au vents, risotto balls, pizza, cookies, crackers, hot dogs, fruit and bread.

So our pizza is definitely a finger food and we can have it comfortably with all that sides and drinks. Enjoy the platter with your hands:)
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Starter:
Fresh broccoli - 1/2 head.
Trim and wash the broccoli florets.
Pat dry with a kitchen towel.
Arrange on baking tray along with pizza and bake for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle lemon juice and salt.
Serve as starter.

Main course:
Healthy slice of pizza without trans fat topped with low fat cheese.
Top with Red, green and yellow bell pepper along with onion , mushroom , olives etc.
Grease a baking sheet with olive oil and bake according to directions.
I used a brand called 'Ellios' from Shop rite.

Sides:
Sweet corn broiled over direct fire , seasoned with lemon and salt.

Drink:
I could not focus more on nutrients here.
The irresistible choice for us is a caffine free zero calorie coke.
We can have a natural choice like lemonade also.

Dessert:

Served a banana , few cherries and a peach as dessert for every one.



Sending this spread to Yasmeen's Well balanced 3 course meal event. Hope it suits the theme.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Garden Pizza

We both love pizza very much , that too for the weekend dinner.This Garden pizza is a vegetarian pizza , which is not only easy to make but also tastes great.I got my inspiration to do this while we had a similar kind of pizza in a restaurant called Culpeppers in O'Fallon, Missouri. Onion rings or french fries and a soda will make your dinner a complete one.

Happy Independence Day.

Pizza base:
1/4 cup warm water
3 spoon vegetable oil
1 sachet dry yeast (1.5 tablespoon approximately)
1 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon sugar
2 small cups of all purpose flour(just enough to make 4 normal chapathi )

mix water oil,yeast,salt,sugar and keep it for 10 minutes.
mix with flour
make a chapathi dough
cover it in a tight vessel and keep it for 1 hour inside oven(not hot).

Sauce:
Ragu sauce(old world style)- 1/2 cup

Pizza topping:
Shredded mozzerella cheese - 1 cup
tomato sauce 1 spoon, chilli sauce 1/2 spoon
1/4 red onion - cut in to small pieces
capsicum - 1/4 cut in to small pieces
mushroom -6 cut into big pieces
black olive fruit -3 cut in to two.

mix every thing except cheese and add salt to taste.
keep it aside for 1 hour or you can prepare it at your leisure time, keep it inside fridge for future use.

Pizza procedure:
Take the dough and roll into a big size chapathi of thickness 1 inch.
place it on the flat baking tray.
put a little oil over the flattened dough.
Spread the ragu sauce.
then spread the topping.
Above the topping spread cheese.

heat oven to 425 F (220 C) . place the pizza in the middle rack and bake it for 15- 18 minutes.
serve hot with tomato sauce , onion rings / french fries and any soda.

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