Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mini Broccoli Pesto Pizza ~~Home Bakers Challenge

Baking is one of my stress burster, i can bake for hours and i love it. Actually while chitchatting with some of our buddies, suddenly we planned to start a baking group and this is how this beautiful Home Bakers Challenge, our new baking baby group was born. Every month a host will give her choice of bake and bakers from this group will bake the posted recipe within a month, between 10th -12th of each month we will post our tried recipes in our respective blogs. How easy na, yep anyone who love baking or to experiment their baking skills can join their hands with us.

For our first month of Home Bakers Challenge, the host of the month Divya Prakash of Divya's Culinary Journey chosed Pizza with 4 varieties, one with pizza sauce while the another one is without pizza sauce,the third one is with pesto sauce and the last but not the least is naanizza, an Indianized version of pizza with naan.I chosed pesto pizza and baked few mini pesto pizza with homemade basil and walnut pesto with our family favourite veggie broccoli. Each and every baker of this group can chose their toppings with their favourite veggies or cheese,watever this group members are really very amazing and they baked varieties of pizza with beautiful toppings.Thanks to Divya for suggesting us pizza for the first bake of this group and we loved it.


Recipe source : Martha Stewart

2+1/4 tsp Active Dry Or Instant Yeast
4 cups All-purpose Flour
1 tsp  Salt
1tsp Sugar
1/2 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Sprinkle yeast over 1 1/2 cups warm (not lukewarm) water.

Combine flour,sugar and salt in a bowl,drizzle in olive oil until combined with flour. Next, pour in yeast-water mixture and mix until just combined.

Coat a separate mixing bowl with olive oil, and form the dough into a ball.

Coat the dough with olive oil, then cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and store in the fridge until you need it.It’s best to make the dough at least 24 hours in advance, and 3 or 4 days is even better.


Basil Pesto:
2cups Fresh basil leaves
1/4cup Walnuts
2nos Garlic cloves
Salt
Pepper
Olive oil (as per need)

Bring boil two cups of salted water, drop the basil leaves,within few seconds drain them and let them cool completely.

Pat dry them completely.

In a food processor, take the nuts,basil leaves,garlic,salt,pepper,process until the nuts are finely chopped.

While the machine running, pour the oil and grind until smooth. Transfer the pesto to an air tighted box.

Basil pesto is ready..

Assembling the pizza:
Broccoli florets (as per need)
Grated mozzarella cheese

Take enough pizza dough,roll it as small sized circular discs.

Transfer the rolled pizza dough to a baking sheet placed over a baking tray.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Spread the pesto sauce to the rolled disc,arrange the broccoli florets over the pizza base finally sprinkle the grated cheese over the veggies.

Bake this vegetarian pizza in the middle rack for 20-25minutes until the cheese melts.

48 comments:

Finla said... Reply To This Comment

Love pesto so i am sure i will love this pizza.

Rafeeda AR said... Reply To This Comment

lovely pizza akka...

meena said... Reply To This Comment

love the cute little serving spoon.lovely pizza.

Nandita SS said... Reply To This Comment

Awesome pizza!!! Loved it :)

dsdsds said... Reply To This Comment

Looks very delicious.. lovely pic.. drooling here..

virunthu unna vaanga said... Reply To This Comment

Colorful yummy pizza...

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

mini pizza is appealing to eye and nice presentation...

Priya Anandakumar said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely pizza, delicious and mouthwatering

Rumana Rawat said... Reply To This Comment

Pizza looks very cute akka...

Laxmipriya said... Reply To This Comment

wow.. colorful pizza.. :)

Jaleela Kamal said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy Pizza

Uma said... Reply To This Comment

cute pizzas.. love both pesto and broccoli!

Raksha said... Reply To This Comment

This one looks very cute dear.

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Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Nice and delicious..good for kids especially the broccoli can be sneaked in

Jayanthy Kumaran said... Reply To This Comment

looks absolutely inviting
Tasty Appetite

sushmita pandit said... Reply To This Comment

Wow that pizza luks awesome

Aruna Manikandan said... Reply To This Comment

yummy pizza.....

Priya Srinivasan - I Camp in My Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy!!!! Loving that pesto! !!

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

Looks very yummy priya. I love home made pizza base from scratch thats made at home!
Pesto looks amazing!

Shobha

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Beautiful Pizza, that broccoli topping looks so cute.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

yummy and healthy pizza...
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Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Looks great Priya.

Mélange said... Reply To This Comment

What a yummy,cute goodness there Priya...It's an absolute treat..Love to grab this from screen..So tempting.

nayana said... Reply To This Comment

mouth watering pizza , a perfect party dish...

MyBakingDiary said... Reply To This Comment

looks super delicious.....awesome clicks.....Priya ur photography is so perfect that the clicks themselves look yummy!!!

saraniskitchen said... Reply To This Comment

lovely pizza sis..Am sure all love this cuties..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

supera irruku akka.. nice presentation..

Archana said... Reply To This Comment

Looks yum.
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Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

yummy and tempting

kitchen flavours said... Reply To This Comment

I love pesto pizza and these look yum!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

very yummy looking pizza :) love the variation in pesto using broccoli is very new :) you rock as always aks :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

delicious pizza!!! love the pesto sauce instead of the regular sauce.. also would be joining you guys for the challenge from June!!
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Hema said... Reply To This Comment

They are so cute and delicious..

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divya said... Reply To This Comment

So tempting,looks fab

Alessandra said... Reply To This Comment

Yum, these are super delicious!

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divyagcp said... Reply To This Comment

Love that you have made mini pizzas, Akka.. I have become a fan of pesto pizza after trying it recently..

Amarendra said... Reply To This Comment

Mini Broccoli Pesto Pizza is looking awesomest. Very delicious. Loved the crockery also.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Wow back with bang Priya. Pizza looks very delicious and the brocolli topping is just amazing. :)

Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

Mini pizza looks simply superb!!

Vikis Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Pizza looks very beautiful and delicious.

Vidya Chandrahas said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely pizza, looks yummy.

www.mahaslovelyhome.com said... Reply To This Comment

this luks really yumm n delicious..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

What a stunner. Love it.

Swati Sapna said... Reply To This Comment

Broccoli and pesto pizza! you have successfully combines the healthy with the sinful :) Looks great!

Sangeetha M said... Reply To This Comment

Wow...pesto pizza with our family fav broccoli looks so delicious n inviting! Cant wait to try this pesto pizza..love it!

Asiya Omar said... Reply To This Comment

ILOVE THE PESTO SAUCE AND MINI PIZZA VERY MUCH.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

aw! this pizza looks darn cute, i would dare to spoil the way it looks!