Healthy full corn Pizza

     Pizza is one of the most loved invention by everybody.Made well,full of flavor, it has the goodness of  everything in one dish. 2 years ago when my husband lived in Austria while we lived in India, we visited him during vacations. We used to travel across the country and we ate so much of pizzas that my kids had enough and wouldn't want another. I then decided I would try and make it more healthy and with more body that suits our tastes. I made it with full corn ready mix for breads with sunflower seeds and various full corns and now my family is hooked to them. In case you do not have it available,you can make your own dough with full corn flour add a few roasted grains it it along with a few sunflower seeds.Add a bit more yeast to it.  I even have friends literally wanting a slice of the delicious and healthy pizza.Sharing the recipe for the healthy eaters.
Makes : 2 pizzas
Ingredients
Ready full-corn bread mix                600gms
olive oil                                            4-5 tbsp
Pasta sauce                                       250ml
broccoli                                           200gms
sliced bell peppers                            1 no
Mushrooms sliced                           4-5 nos
sliced onions                                   1 no
Olives                                             1/2 bowl
Jalapenos                                        4-5 nos
Gherkins                                         2-3 nos
Sliced zucchini                                1 no
basil                                                few
mixed Italian herbs                         1 tsp
grated pizza cheese                         200gms
Salt to taste

Rolled out perfectly

Spread the sauce

Piled up with vegetables

                                                             
           
Method
In a mixing bowl,add the flour and luke warm water and a bit of olive oil.Mix well and keep aside in a warm place for 1-2 hours till it becomes double in size.Punch down and let it rise again.
With the help of flour, divide the dough into 2 parts.Roll and spread on a pizza tray.
Drizzle a bit of olive oil and spread tomato sauce on it.
Sprinkle pizza cheese and arrange all the toppings of your choice on it.
Sprinkle a bit of salt and Italian herbs and basil too.
Bake in a pre heated oven at 250 deg C till golden brown.
Serve hot cut into wedges.

Bread pizza

     One of the biggest problem I face and most mothers face is...what to pack in kids lunch boxes.Well I make this very often for my kids lunch box and they love it.Bread pizza is something they love even when it is cold and top them with vegetables and we are glad too.Try this recipe.I like to make it with multigrain bread , so more fiber and great taste.

Ingredients
Multi grain slices of bread            6-7 nos
tomato sauce                              1 cup
chopped broccoli                       1 cup
chopped onions                          1 no
chopped bell peppers                 1/2 no
chopped olives                           for topping
grated pizza cheese                    as required
pizza spices                               1 tsp
salt to sprinkle
butter to spread on bread
Method
Butter the slices of bread.Spread the tomato sauce evenly.sprinkle the grated cheese liberally on the sauce.Arrang broccoli and other vegetables of choice (mushroom,corn,zucchini,spinach etc).sprinkle salt and pizza spices.Put the oilves and put them for baking in a pre-heated oven at 200deg C for 8-10 mins till the cheese browns and the bread is crispy.Pack them in foil and let your child enjoy the lovely lunch at school.

Calzone

    Germany is doing good for me in the sense I am trying new recipes each day with ingredients easily available in supermarkets.In India it is now getting easier to get all the ingredients but sometimes they are too expensive and sometimes available to far away or maybe all the ingredients are not available.So I was sometimes making pasta sauces at home which I don't need to here and so can try better recipes.My family is excited about me trying out new recipes.This week I had picked up potato bread ready made flour from the supermarket to try out something with it.I thought I would end up making pizza but then decided to make calzone.It is a very close to pizzas, only they are folded over with a nice stuffing and then baked.I sometimes top them with cheese and bake them too or just top up with some herb butter after they are baked.They are delicious.
Ingredients
Flour(ready made dry flour with active yeast)     500gms
olive oil                                                              2 tbsp
warm water                                                        325ml
alternatively
Flour                                                                 450 gms
dry yeast                                                            1 tbsp
sugar                                                                   1 tsp
warm water                                                          250 ml
salt                                                                       1 tsp
olive oil                                                                2 tbsp
For the stuffing
Broccoli  sliced                                                250 gms
sliced mushrooms                                             100gms
sliced onions                                                   1 no
sliced bell peppers                                           1 no
olives                                                               8-9 nos
chopped garlic                                                  1 tbsp
tomato puree                                                     200 ml
chopped tomato                                                1 no
Italian herbs                                                       1/2 tsp
chilli flakes                                                         1/2 tsp
salt to taste
olive oil                                                               1 tbsp
grated cheese                                                       100 gms

Method
If you are using the ready mix,just use warm water , knead well, add oil and knead and keep to rise for 1 hour for the dough to rise to double.
If using dry yeast,soak yeast in luke warm water with sugar and keep aside for it to bubble up.Make a well in the flour mixed with salt.Add the yeast mixture and add more warm water to knead into a soft dough.Put the olive oil and knead well.make into a pliable ball and keep in a warm place covered to double up.This should happen in 1 hour.
Now the stuffing.Heat oil in a pan and add chilli flakes.Add the garlic and saute.Toss in onions and saute.Put in the vegetables and cook on high heat.Sprinkle the herbs and salt.Mix well.Pour in the tomato sauce and cook till the vegetable is in thick gravy.
Divide the dough into 4 portions and roll into a balls.Roll with the help of some flour into a circle.Put some mixture on one side of the circle.Top with cheese and fold over into half.Press the sides to seal well.Brush with oil and put into a pre-heated oven at 200 deg for about 15 mins or till golden brown.Remove from oven and brush with butter and serve them hot.they work very well for snacks, for kids' lunch box or for travel.

TIP...you can also use left over baked vegetables or bakes as a filling.Works well and a good way to recycle  left overs from a parties or previous night dinner.