Today I’m sharing a delicious pizza topped with Butter Paneer Curry and Cheese. Absolutely heart paneer(Indian cottage cheese) on pizza. I know traditionally they are paired with a tomato sauce based pizza, but I wanted this different so I decided to do Indian style Paneer pizza. This pizza is truly awesome. Its cheesy,sweet, syrupy and spicyyyy! And I am Happy Give it a try!
The butter spicy sauce complements the paneer perfectly. You can make it healthy by making a wheat dough pizza. But today I made half and half (Wheat and all purpose flour).
Who doesn’t love pizza? I truly think that everybody can make a pizza, it is so easy. I agree making pizza is time consuming but surely not difficult. Try making it once and I bet you would want to do it all the time. And you can top with your dearest toppings! And trust me, this is better than the take-out pizza.
I love pizza. Totally LOVE it but I can’t eat it every single day. Bake your pizza on the highest rack. I know a lot of people assume that your oven is hottest closest to the heat source but it’s actually hottest on top because heat rises.
When I did this, I prepared the dough and made it rest. After 1 ½ hrs I came to the kitchen, did the sauce. Chopped the veggie and sautéed them. So when I started rolling, I preheated my oven. 🙂 so I felt like I did this pizza in no time.
This is my own version of quick paneer curry for pizza. Paneer as I always say they are delicious. You can never go wrong with paneer recipes somehow the end result will be good. And when you do recipes with paneer, it will be great for any get together or parties .I always say I cook recipe for someone, but this recipe I totally made for myself.
Vegan note: Replace paneer with tofu, ghee/butter with oil.
I have collection of paneer & tofu recipes collection with all my paneer tofu recipes that you should look at.
Other favorite Paneer Recipes: Paneer Makhanwala, Paneer peas masala, Palak Paneer, Paneer sandwich,pepper paneer do pyaza,spicy garlic tofu in 10 minutes,malai methi paneer
- For the dough:
- All-purpose flour & wheat flour together – 1½ cups
- Salt – 2 tsp
- Sugar – 2 tsp
- Extra virgin olive oil – 2 tbsp
- Warm water - 1 ½ cup, about 110 degrees
- Instant yeast – 1 envelope•
Paneer Masala: - • Unsalted Butter - 2 Tbsp
- • Turmeric – 1 tsp
- •Tomatoes - 1 cup, chopped finely ( approx. 2 small tomatoes, blended)
- • Sugar - ½ tsp
- • Chilli Powder – ½ tsp
- • Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
- • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
- • Cumin Powder – 1 tsp
- • Kasturi Methi - 1 tsp
- • Mango powder – 1 tsp
- • Coriander – 1 tbsp, chopped finely(garnish)
- • Cream/almond milk - 4 Tbsp
- • Paneer - 250gms
- • Shredded cheese – 1 cup
- For the pizza dough:
- Add the yeast to warm water. Add 2 tsp of sugar to it. Mix and set aside for three minutes.
- In a bowl, drop the flour, salt and pour the yeast mixture. Put your hand in and bring it together. Mix until everything is combined. Knead for ten minutes until smooth.
- Brush the tops of the dough with a little oil to stop them from drying out. Cover both bowls with a plastic wrap and place it into a warm place for two hours. I place them inside a microwave or an oven (oven turned off).
- Once it is roughly doubled in size, knock any excess air out. Place back in your surface. Divide into two and simply flatten using roller or hand. Roll out each dough part into a thin crust about ½ inch thick.
Paneer curry - Take 1 tbsp of butter in a pan, place the paneer cubes and pan fry for a minute in each side till they become crispy golden. Keep it aside. (Optional step)
- Take 1 tbsp of butter in a pan; add the blended/pureed tomatoes, garlic ginger paste, turmeric powder, mango powder, chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and salt. If you want rich color, you can add kashmiri chilli powder. I used normal one.
- Cook for about 10 minutes on a medium flame till everything gets cooked.
- Add dry methi leaves, cream/almond milk, sugar, water and boil for five-seven minutes. Add sautéed paneer, boil for 5 mins and switch off.
- Garnish with chopped coriander or grated paneer, ginger or cream.
To make the pizza: - Preheat the oven to 475 degrees and place a pizza stone/ or a normal baking pan in the oven and preheat it for 20 minutes. I preheated my stone/pan for 20 mins when I was preheating the oven too.
- Place the rolled out pizza dough on a pizza peel or an upside down baking sheet and start topping it. Using a ladle, add the paneer sauce and use the back of the spoon or ladle, swirl it over the top of the dough for an even texture. Add the toppings and top it with shredded cheese and place the pizza into the pizza stone. Cook for twenty minutes, rotating half way through to insure even cooking.
img src="https://www.relishthebite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_6741.jpg"] - Your pizza is ready!
2. If you don’t have a pizza stone, you can use a large baking sheet just place it in the oven upside down so there are no edges to stop them
3. You can always make one pizza and freeze the other dough ball.
