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by Tarla Dalal
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Indian’s love making bread pizza. We have two options for you, bread pizza in oven or bread pizza in tava. You can make it either way and see below the method of making step by step bread pizza in oven and a few steps of bread pizza in tava.
Looking for a super quick and easy snack recipe? We have one of the quickest pizza which is bread pizza. It is just a quick alternate to veg pizza. Bread pizza consists of whole wheat bread, pizza sauce and cheese.
The unique thing about the Indian style bread pizza is the ideal pizza base is replaced with bread. It is a best alternate for someone craving for pizza at an odd hour.
Bread pizza can be made with any bread of your choice but here we have used whole wheat bread as the base. We have started with preparing the Indian style pizza sauce, heat olive oil in a pan. Add bay leave and pepper corn to it as it gives it the flavor. Next, add onion, garlic and capsicum. These veggies will give a mouthfeel and crunchiness to our bread pizza. Next add blanched tomatoes, tomato puree and tomato sauce which will provide color and tang to the sauce. Add sugar for balancing the flavor. Finally, add chilli flakes, oregano and basil and cook. Our pizza sauce or the base is ready!! Next, we have toasted the bread in the oven till turns a little golden, get them off and prepared spread pizza sauce on top of the toasted bread and sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top. Once the cheese is sprinkled on top, bread pizza are baked at 200 degree for 8-10 minutes or until the bread turns brown or cheese melts. Once cooked, cut into triangles and serve quick oven veg bread pizza immediately or it tends to turn soggy.
Alternatively, you can even toast the bread slices in the pop-up toaster till they turn light brown in colour. If you do not have an oven you can also make bread pizza in tava. When I was a kid, we didn’t have ovens at home, my mother used to make it on tava and it would still taste tasty. It is super quick and you can also use this recipe as a starter for your kids birthday party or you can also make it for evening snack. My kids love it and also sometimes take tava bread pizza in their lunch boxes. Also, to make the bread pizza more filling, you can sprinkle some chopped vegetables too.
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For the pizza sauce- Heat the olive oil in a broad non-stick pan, add the bay leaves and peppercorns and sauté for a few seconds.
- Add the onions, garlic and capsicum and sauté on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, tomato purée, tomato ketchup, sugar, chilli flakes and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
- Finally, add the dried oregano and basil and mix well.
- Remove the bay leaves and peppercorns and discard them.
- Divide the pizza sauce into 6 equal portions and keep aside.
How to proceed to make bread pizza- Toast the bread slices in a pre-heated oven at 200°c (400°f) for 10 minutes.
- Spread a portion of the prepared pizza sauce evenly over each bread slice and finally sprinkle 1 tbsp of cheese over it.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200°c (400°f) for 5 to 7 minutes or till the cheese melts.
- Serve the bread pizza immediately.
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To make pizza sauce for bread pizza, heat the olive oil in a broad non-stick pan. Olive oil is widely used in Italian cooking to provide beautiful flavor to sauces but, if you don’t have it handy, make use of butter or regular vegetable oil.
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Add bay leaves.
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Add peppercorns.
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Mix well and sauté for a few seconds or until the whole spices are aromatic.
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Add onions.
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Add garlic.
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Add capsicum.
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Sauté on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes or until the raw smell goes away and onions are soft.
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Add tomatoes. We have blanched the tomatoes, peeled, discarded the seeds and chopped them before adding to the pizza sauce.
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Add tomato purée.
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Add tomato ketchup. It provides pizza sauce a beautiful color and tangy flavor.
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Add sugar. If at all there is excess sourness in our tomato or tomato puree, the sugar will help in balancing out the flavors.
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Add chilli flakes. It can be swapped with chili powder or paprika powder.
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Add salt.
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Mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
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Finally, add dried oregano. When using dried oregano, it is a good idea to crush it in the palms of your hand to help release the essential oils and extract maximum flavors from it.
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Add basil. Every time a recipe calls for fresh basil, simply use whole leaves or tear large leaves into small pieces with your hands for the best flavor.
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Mix well and our pizza sauce is ready.
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Remove the bay leaves and peppercorns and discard them.
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Before we began assembling bread pizza recipe | bread pizza in oven | bread pizza in tava | veg bread pizza | line the bread slices on a baking tray and preheat the oven. We have used white bread slices but you can use any variety of bread like whole-wheat bread, multigrain bread, masala bread.
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Toast the bread slices in a pre-heated oven at 200°C (400°F) for 10 minutes. Alternatively, you can even toast the bread slices in the pop-up toaster till they turn light brown in colour.
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Spread a portion of the prepared pizza sauce evenly over each bread slice.
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Finally, sprinkle 1 tbsp of cheese over it. Use cheddar, mozzarella cheese or a combination of different cheese if you like. To make the bread pizza more filling, you can sprinkle some chopped vegetables too.
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Bake again in a pre-heated oven at 200°c (400°f) for 5 to 7 minutes or till the cheese melts. If you do not have an oven, place the bread pizza on a broad non-stick pan or tava, cover it with a lid & wait for the cheese to melt.
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Serve bread pizza immediately or else it will turn soggy.
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To make bread pizza on tava | quick veg bread pizza | 3 ingredient tava bread pizza | Toast the bread slices in the pop up toaster till they turn light brown in colour. Alternatively, you can even toast the bread slices in an oven if preparing in bulk or on a tava. Instead of whole wheat bread slices, you can also use white bread slices, multigrain bread slices.
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Place 1 toasted bread slices on a clean, dry surface.
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Spread 1½ tbsp of pizza sauce evenly over it. While pizza sauce is readily available in the market, I love making pizza sauce at home using this recipe.
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Sprinkle 1 tbsp of cheese evenly over it. Instead of processed cheese, use cheddar or mozzarella cheese if you like. To make the bread pizza more filling, you can sprinkle some chopped vegetables too.
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Repeat steps 2 to 4 and make 3 more Indian bread pizza | quick oven veg bread pizza | 3 ingredient tava bread pizza |.
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To pack the bread pizza on tava | quick veg bread pizza | 3 ingredient tava bread pizza | for lunchbox, allow it to cool completely, wrap in aluminium foil and pack in an air-tight tiffin box.
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Serve bread pizza on tava | quick veg bread pizza | 3 ingredient tava bread pizza | immediately.
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