Description
Learn to make this nutritious and delicious palak paneer pizza made with homemade wholewheat pizza crust and lot of fresh spinach and cheese.
Ingredients
Scale
For the pizza dough
- 2.25 cups (300g) of wholewheat flour
- 5oz of lukewarm water
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1 tsp of castor sugar
- 1.5 tsp of dried yeast
- 1oz of olive oil
For the palak paneer
- 300g of fresh spinach
- 100g of laughing cow cheese, another soft cheese or paneer
- 1 red onion (peeled and sliced)
- 1 garlic clove (peeled and finely chopped)
- 2 ripe tomatoes (dice) or 150g/3/4 cup of tomato sauce
- 1 tsp of garam masala
- 1 tsp of paprika
- 1 tsp of turmeric
- 1inch of fresh ginger (peeled and grated)
- 1 fresh chili pepper (finely chopped)
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
To prepare the pizza crust
- Prepare the leaven : add ¼ cup of flour, yeast, sugar and 2oz of lukewarm water in a bowl and combine the ingredients together. Leave the mixture to rest for 10-15 minutes. The mixture is ready when it forms a brown dough with bubbles.
- Add flour and salt in the bowl of your Kitchen Aid and mix slowly.
- Pour the leaven in the bowl and continue to mix slowly.
- Pour in the olive oil and continue to mix.
- Pour the rest of the water in little by little and continue to mix slowly for 10 minutes.
- The dough must be smooth and springy.
- If the dough is too dry, add more water. If the dough is too wet, add more flour. Remember, whether adding water or flour, always add little by little.
- Cover the bowl with the doug inside and leave to rest in a warm place for at least one hour. (You can create a warm environment in your oven by heating your oven on low heat (80°F/30°C) for approximately 5 minutes, then turning off your oven and leaving the bowl to sit inside.)
- The dough will double in size.
- Preheat your oven on maximum heat, our oven maximum is 570°F (300°C).
- Remove the dough from the bowl and place on an oiled sheet of baking paper or a silpat.
- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin.
- Now your pizza is ready to add you palak paneer topping!
To prepare the palak paneer
- Remove the spinach stems.
- Heat olive oil in a casserole on medium heat.
- Add onion and a pinch of salt and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add paprika, turmeric, garam masala, ginger, pepper and garlic and cook for 4 minutes.
- Add the spinach in 3 parts, waiting until the spinach softens before adding the next part.
- Add the paneer (or cheese) and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the fresh chili and tomatoes and cover and cook on low heat for 15 minutes.
To assemble
- Spread the palak paneer over the pizza dough.
- Bake on maximum heat for 5-10 minutes depending on your oven.
- Category: Healthy pizza
- Cuisine: Indian