Homemade Pizzas for your Weekend Parties!

Homemade Pizzas, easy on the pocket & easy to cook up too!

Weekend's buzzing, festive fervour in the air, it's time to gang up and party, relish and gorge on sinful food, but we also keep an eye on the fact that it happens to be the last week of the month - ordering out pizzas suddenly doesn't seem like the best choice!! So how about 'Cooking Up' sumptuous, sinful pizzas at home for your weekend gathering?! Don't have a microwave? You don't need one either... Make this one on your regular cookstove with a pan - as long as you add a dash of warmth, loads of love, frolic, fun and dollops of cheese, you are sure to get one helluva pizza that you and your friends would wipe out! Find out how....

HOMEMADE PIZZAS

Prep Time: 15-20 mins | Cook Time: 5-7 mins (per pizza) | Servings: Makes 6 pizzas (from pizza bases available in supermarkets) 

Ingredients:

1. Pizza Bases - 6 nos (available easily at supermarkets)
2. Pizza Sauce - 3-4 tablespoons (or mix some leftover herbs in tomato ketchup if pizza sauce is not available)
3. Butter - 2-3 tablespoons 
4. Green Capsicum - 2 large-sized
5. Onions - 2 large sized
6. Olives - 1 cup (sliced) - optional
7. Herbs/ seasoning - as per taste - around 1 tablespoon
8. Olive oil - 1 tablespoon
9. Salt & Pepper - to taste

Preparation:

• Finely slice capsicums and onions and throw in some sliced olives if you like

• Add olive oil, salt & pepper and some herbs (oregano seasoning/ chilli flakes), mix well and set aside

• Add a few gentle cuts on your pizza base and smear some butter followed by pizza sauce. If you do not have ready-made pizza sauce, you can add some oregano seasoning/ herbs to tomato ketchup and use it as a pizza sauce too! Spread a generous portion of the veggies topping on your base.

• Grate some cheese (you can use pizza cheese - mozzarella or use regular cheese cubes) and top it off on the pizza. In the meanwhile, set aside a frying pan to heat. Keeping it on medium flame, sprinkle some olive oil or butter and place your pizza in it. Cover it with a lid. Keep a check on it after about 4-5 minutes. Once the cheese melts and the base of the pizza is crispy brown, take it off the heat and cut into slices and serve! 

Enjoy your house-party with this easy, cheesy homemade pizza and you can warm up with some freshly prepared tomato and mix veggies soup (shared in my previous post) and do let me know how it turned out! You can also experiment with toppings using other veggies of your choice...

And if you run out of pizza bases, you can always fall back on the good 'ol bread and create small bread pizzas in the same way! Have a pizza-licious weekend!