Friday 12 March 2021

Chicken and Mushroom Pizza



Ingredients 

Base

2 cups self raising flour

1 cup milk

3 Tablespoons butter

Pinch of salt

Toppings

Tomato sauce

Hot sauce of your choice 

1/2    purple onion sliced

1 green pepper diced

1/2 cup chopped mushrooms

1/2   tomato diced

1/2 kg chicken fillets diced and fried 

Mixed herbs for sprinkling

Grated cheese

Method 

  • Rub butter into flour 
  • Add salt
  • Add the milk and make a soft dough
  • Grease oven tray and spread dough on tray until tray is covered with the pizza base
  • Spread tomato and hot sauce all over base
  • Add toppings
  • Sprinkle mixed herbs and grated cheese on top
  • Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes 
* Toppings can be changed however you wish.The key to a great pizza is experimenting!😄



Chillie Bites | Pakoras | Bhajias



Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups Chickpea flour or chillie bite mix
  • ½ cup self raising flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp cumin powder
  • ¼ tsp tumeric
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1-2 tsp red chilli flakes(depending how hot you like it
  • 1 large onion, coarsely grated
  • 2 handfuls finely shredded spinach leaves or lettuce leaves
  • Oil for frying
Instructions
  1. Sift all the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients to the above.
  3. Mix in enough water to make a thick batter.
  4. Heat some oil in a large frying pan; add a heaped teaspoonful of this mix to the oil.
  5. Turn over when they are golden brown.
  6. Once the other side is golden brown, remove and drain on absorbent paper.
Serve hot with a chilli sauce
    Tip:As a variation you can omit the spinach, grated onion and grated potato and also dip, sliced eggplant,cauliflower, potato or courgettes into the batter before frying.
      Notes
      Fry chilli bites over a medium heat otherwise they might end up being brown outside, but uncooked on the inside.

      For potato chillie bites cut 2 large potatoes into round rings and omit the the onion and spinach .