Apple/Paneer Pizza

Follow the ingredients for making pizza dough here .

The toppings:

Paneer - cut into 1/2 inch piece

Apple - Pealed, coarsed, cut into 1/2 inch piece

Cheese

Pizza souce or prego sauce

Pepper

Turn on the oven to 500f  for 20 minutes. Meantime Roll the the pizza dough to desired thickness. Keep the rolled base on the lower rach for 5 minutes, take it outside and spread a cup of sauce on the base, place the other toppings. Sprinkle pepper and spread cheese on top of toppings. Place it in a lower rack of oven for 12-15 minutes or until the cheese melts and starts to bubble or the base turned brown. Do not let it burn. Serve hot and Enjoy.

This recipe is submitted to Ramya's kitchen ongoing event

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Apple/Paneer Pizza

Tomato and Basil Bruschetta

Simple bread topped with tomato and cheese tastes wonderful.

Ingredients:

Italian long sized bread (preferably garlic flavor)

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Tomato and Basil Bruschetta

Green Beans

This is Vighnesh's one of the favorite side dish.  It goes so well with soup and bread. I do it very often. Here is what you need

Green beans : 1/2 pound (long beans cut along the side)
Olive oil - 2 tbs

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Green Beans

Pineapple Pizza

Looks yummy, doesn't it?
Bell pepper with pineapple goes so well, little sweet and little spice!, very delicious.

What Ingredients I used?
All purpose flour or self rising flour - 11/2 cup
Wheat Flour - 1 cup (optional, if you not using this increase the quantity of self rising flour) (wheat is more healthy though!)
Dry yeast - 1 package
Salt - 1 tbs
Sugar - 1tbs
Warm water - 11/2 cup (approximately)
Olive Oil - 2 tbs
Mozzarella cheese - 1 cup or per your taste bud
toppings - I used zucchini, bell pepper, pineapple, onion and garlic
Tomato sauce - I used Prego sauce - 1 cup ( little less than 1 cup)
Corn meal - 1 tbs
Flour  - 1 tbs

How did I Make?

Add 1 package yeast to warm water, stir once and let it rest for 10 minutes, Yeast gets activated in the warm water. Meantime mix all other dry ingredients like flour, salt, sugar. Once the yeast is dissolved add this to dry mix and kneed it well if you have food processor you save energy on kneading! you have to add all the ingredients to that and processor does the rest. Cover the dough with a cheese cloth or clean kitchen towel for 1 hour.
After an hour kneed it again for 1-2 minutes and cover it for another 1/2 and hour to 1 hour. The dough will be very soft and elastic.Now ready for making pizza?

Spread the flour on top of clean counter top, start rolling the dough using rolling pin or by stretching using hands. You can make how much even thick or thin you need. make little thin on the center and thick towards end. If it is not even, use the palm to make it thin and even. Make the lips with the fork on the edges. This fluffy looks good and it comes out more crisp.

Heat the oven to 500 degree Fahrenheit for at least 1/2 an hour. Place the pizza stone in the oven.

Spread tomato sauce evenly on the rolled pizza base, do not overload the sauce. Place pineapple pieces and other chopped toppings. Spread cheese on top the toppings!. you can sprinkle little salt and pepper if you like,

Sprinkle corn meal on pizza stone and transfer this base to stone carefully. and again keep it in oven on the lower rack for 12-15 minutes. Pizza is ready.!
Once it is slightly brown turn off the oven and let it rest for 2 more minutes.
Take it from the oven and serve hot! Enjoy

I tried Apple/paneer pizza the other day and came out wonderful.

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Pineapple Pizza

Pasta

Whenever I go to groceries shop here, I used to look at pasta packets. I was pretty impressed by the different shapes, types of these pastas. But I wasn't purchasing it because I didn’t know how to prepare pasta. One of my friend laksh cooks western style food very well. I asked her and she taught me very well. Now I cook pasta very often. Once in a week Italian dishes will be there at my home. Thanks laksh :)

Ingredients:

• pasta - 1/4 packet
• brinjal chopped - 1 cup
• tomato - 1/4 cup
• black pepper - 1 tbs
• all flour or rice flour - 2 tbs
• Italian seasoning - 1 tbs
• milk - 3/4 cup
• cheese - 1 tbs
• salt
• oil

Cook the pasta as per the direction given in the packet (put pasta to the boiled water and cook for 15 minutes. Add salt for the taste). Mean while cook brinjal separately, add little salt for the taste and keep it aside. Now in the thick based vessel, add the oil or spray the oil. Keep on top of low flamed stove. Add the flour to the oil and stir well for 1 minute or until oil absorbs flour and becomes like dough. Now add milk and stir well until it becomes semi solid. It will take hardly 2 - 3 minutes. Put the cooked brinjal, tomato and black pepper to the semi solid milk and mix well. Now add the cooked pasta to it and mix well. Add Italian seasoning and mix well. Keep it on the stove for 2 minutes. Keep mixing it and see to it that it will not stick to the base. Turn it of the stove. Keep it in the fridge for an hour and serve cold with the Italian sauce. Some people like hot pasta. You can have hot also. Both will be simply amazing. Taste both!

Note: If you like mushroom, you can do this with mushroom also. I don't do it because i don't like it. But laksh told me that mushroom pasta tastes yummy

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Pasta

Spinach Speghetti

Ingredients:

• Angle hair speghetti - 4 ounces
• Spinach - 10 ounces ( finely chopped or frozen baby spinach)
• milk - 1/2 cup
• cheese - 2 tbs (preferably parmesan cheese)
• black pepper - 1/4 tbs
• salt
• italian seasoning - 1 tbs
• onion - 1/2 cup (thin sliced)

Cook the Angle hair speghetti and drain well. Usually it takes 20-25 minutes to cook. Cook the spinach and drain the well. Add milk, cheese, blak pepper, intalian seasoning and spinach to the coocked speghetti. Greese the oven compatible container and put speghetti mixture in it. Close the lid and keep it in the oven for 10 minutes. Now take out the lid and keep it again in the oven and cook until it becomes light brown.

Searve hot with the italian souce, prego sauce tastes good with speghetti.

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Spinach Speghetti