Vegetarian Sunflower pizza without yeast recipe
2 cup Maida / All purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup + 1 tbsp warm milk or as required
2 tbsp butter (melted)
2 tbsp olive oil
For stuffing
1/2 cup finely sliced red bell pepper
1/2 cup finely sliced yellow bell pepper
1/2 cup finely sliced green bell pepper
1/2 cup finely sliced onion
1 cup pizza sauce
1 tsp salt
2 tsp Italian herbs or as required
2 tsp oregano or as required
1 tsp chili flakes or as required
Mozzarella cheese as required
Oil to brush
Method :-
In a bowl
Sieve the flour, add baking powder, sugar and salt. Mix well. Then add butter and oil and mix together.
Now add the milk gradually while kneading the dough . Knead the dough for 4-5 minutes or until it become soft and nice.
Touch a bit of oil with your fingers and apply all over the dough.
Cover the dough and Keep it aside for an hour .
Take another bowl or plate or tray . Add all sliced vegetables , add salt, oregano, Italian herbs and chili flakes. Mix well.
Now take the dough , knead it for few seconds.
Now roll the dough with the rolling pin on the wooden board into a round shape circle to 1/4 inch thickness.
Now preheat the oven to 400 F
Now take baking tray and line it with Foil paper / parchment paper.
Transfer the rolled dough carefully to the prepared tray ( I forget to transfer the dough in this step :( )
Now make circle in center of pizza and slits in the center by using pizza cutter as shown.
Cut 8 equal triangle (like we cut a pizza) in inner circle.
Apply a generous amount of pizza sauce on all around the outer circle border as shown in pic
Now top with veggie filling on tomato sauce and garnish with mozeralla cheese as shown in pic
Take each cut triangle from the inner circle and fold it over the arrange vegetables and tuck the tip of triangle into outer border. Follow and do the same procedure with every triangle to get a sunflower shape.
Brush the dough with oil/ milk/butter
Bake in oven for 25 minutes or until it get brown in color.
Veggie sunflower pizza is ready to eat. Transfer it into serving plate.
Tips:-
1) Kneading dough is important step. More kneading gives soft dough
2) You can add more vegetables like olives, spinach etc.
3) Also can add Tofu, paneer etc.
4) Adjust the italian herbs as per your taste
5) Oven timing can be different just keep eye on the pizza after 20 minutes.