Quinoa is the world's most popular super food. It i s loaded with protein, fiber and plenty of minerals. Somehow we stopped adding this to our regular meal. I just gave a try to prepare a pizza with quinoa flour. To my surprise, the dish came out really well.
Lets see how to prepare this healthy quinoa pizza.
Ingredients:
For pizza base:
Quinoa / Quinoa Flour - 1 cup
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Curd - 500 ml
baking powder - 2 tbsp
Salt - As required.
For topping:
You can use any of these available items for topping. Any one or two items, or everything would be fine.
Garlic cloves - 3
Olive oil - 3 tbsp
Bell Pepper - 1/2 cup finely chopped
Onion - 1/2 cup finely chopped
Cheese - 2 to 3 cups shredded
Olives - 7 - 8
Mushroom - 1/2 cup finely chopped lengthwise
Servings: 1 large pizza size
Cooking time: 45 mins
Preparation time: 20 mins
Method:
In case you have quinoa as a whole grain, dry roast quinoa in a heavy bottom pan for about 5 mins in medium flame. Take care not to burn the quinoa. Once it is cooled, grind it in the mixie to a fine powder. Sieve the flour to get the fine powder. In case you have quinoa flour, its fine to use it.
Take equal amounts of quinoa and wheat flour in a large pan. Add baking powder to the pan and mix it thoroughly with the flour. Now add curd to the flour and mix them in a way it is little watery and sticky than the normal roti dough.
If you prepare a thick and nice dough as we do for chapathi, pizza would be very hard. So let the dough be little loose, sticky and watery. Leave it for just 15 minutes.
In case you plan to use garlic, chop the cloves into very very small pieces and soak them in oil. Keep it aside.
Now preheat the oven to 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Take a large pizza pan and apply generous amount of oil to the surface to avoid sticking. In case you dont have a pizza pan, you can use iron dosa pan. I used the same.
Apply little oil in your hand and rub on both hands. Now take the dough with hand and try to spread it all over the pan evenly in the shape of pizza.
For topping, I first applied the garlic and oil on the base and spread all over the dough. Then added the shredded cheese. Then added onion, bell peppers, olives and mushroom. On top of everything, added a little of remaining cheese
Now get everything into the oven. It took almost 40 to 45 minutes for me to bake it. The pizza is now ready.
