Homemade Frozen pizza recipe

Not in the mood to bake ?but would love to have a pizza, that's the exact same way i feel sometimes.Don't worry here is a recipe to rescue the night.One can prepare this par cooked pizza ahead of time and freeze just until needed,great for fixing a dinner under 30 mins .

Ingredients :

• medium size pizza dough(for a low fat homemade recipe click-pizza dough)
• part skimmed mozzarella cheese -handful or as per preference  
• 1 chicken Brest cubed and cooked or toppings of your choice 
• marinara sauce or pizza sauce -1/4cup  
• 2 tsp olive oil 
• corn meal 1tsp



Bake not more than 10 mins

• salt as per taste 

Directions :

• Preheat  oven at 365F. Line a tray with foil or parchment paper.
• Place the dough on  work surface and start shaping the pizza .
•  brush the crust thoroughly with a little oil and transfer it to the tray sprinkled with some corn meal .
• par-bake this crust for 10 mins.take out and let cool completely.   
• Once cool spread sauce evenly on the crust .Don't put too much of sauce as it will make the pizza soggy.
• once the sauce is evenly coating the crust, top up with cooked chicken or toppings of your choice.
• Sprinkle cheese on top  and the pizza is ready to hibernate  .
• Flash freeze this for first 30 mins without any cover in the freezer section .
• Take it out and very important now is to wrap the pizza with stretch tight plastic wrap so as its covered properly without any gaps.If there are gaps in between the chances of freezer burns are more.Use vacuum sealing if you have one .
• Mark the date and freeze the pizza until required ,lasts up to a month.

• When ready to bake turn the oven to broil. Bake the pizza directly out of the freezer for first 5 mins on broil.
• Reduce the temperature to 375 F and bake for 20 min or till the crust looks golden brown and the sauce is bubbly.
• Let cool and slice out .

 The taste of the batch shown above was so fresh that there was no clue it was frozen ,if you don't believe me you have to try this recipe out .Healthy , affordable and not to forget delicious compared to the once that you see in the frozen section of your departmental store,so go ahead  try this recipe and let me how it turns out!

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Mexican sopes recipe

Hola everyone,

Sopes are traditional mexican dish, very versatile and very tasty .Once the corn base are prepared there are many ways to assemble them also the toppings can be varied from black bean to tuna to chicken to whatever you wish.The authentic recipe involves deep frying the corn base disc ,but here greenhouse cuisine brings you the low calorie pan fried version.

INGREDIENTS :

(makes approx 18 sopes )

• MASECA flour ,or masa harina - 1 cup[This is flour(masa)made of ground maize soaked in lime,available in any grocery store].
• 1/3 tsp salt
• 2/3 cup water.
• Oil -2 tsp
• refried beans -1/2 cup
• chicken Brest cooked 1 cup or for a veggie version substitute black bean and sweet corn of same amount .
• Salsa or roughly chopped tomatoes,onions and cilantro -1/2 cup
• taco mix -2 tsp



Meet my three amigos  

• fat free sour cream -1/2 cup

Many have the idea that Mexican cooking involves a lot of  fat calories and is totally time consuming ,but it doesn't have to be the case if some of the ingredients be switched  for fat free, and good  quality canned products be used ,which saves a lot of time .

METHOD:

• Mix 1 cup of the flour with 2/3 cup water and 1/3 tsp salt and make a soft dough.
• Divide the dough into 18 to 20 portions and shape into balls.
• Prepare the bean sauce by heating the refried beans with 2 tsp of taco mix and a little water.keep aside
• wet your fingers with water and flatten out each ball in the palm of your hand as seen in step 2
• Heat a non stick griddle spray some oil and place the sope to cook on one side. 
• Flip within a minute,there will be change in color indicating that the masa has started to cook.
• take the sope out of the pan and very carefully start pinching the ends to give it a disc shape.(stp 3)
• return the disc to the pan and fry for another minute 
• repeat untill all of the masa has been made into discs .
• Assemble the sopes with the bean sauce stp(4),thechicken or topping of your choice stp(5),the salsa stp(6) and the finally sour cream.

Enjoy when still warm.Optional :top it all up with some lettuce to add that extra crunch.Also try replacing the salsa with tomatillo sauce that will add a tangy flavor to your sopes.Hope you give it a try.

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CHICKEN PIZZA RECIPE

Hello guys
It's pizza time.Presenting the perfect T.V dinner fresh out of your oven !.As always, this too is an endeavor by greenhouse cuisine on low fat recipes,so grab your glasses, sit back and enjoy this delicious low fat pizza on a weekend ,watching your favorite show, "without feeling guilty".Lets get it started.

Ingredients:
will make one medium size pizza

• Medium size pizza dough  (for a home made low fat pizza dough recipe follow the link: pizza dough)
• part skimmed mozzarella cheese -1/8part of 8oz pack shredded 
• 1 chicken Brest  
• marinara sauce or pizza sauce -1/4cup 
• half an onion -sliced 
• Italian seasoning ,fresh or dried -1tsp
• 2 tsp olive oil 
• corn meal 1tsp
• salt as per taste 

 The quantities of above ingredients totally depends on the taste ,feel free to add or omit items as per your choice .One important thing i want to mention here is that the taste of your pizza depends directly to the sauce ,I use marinara because it has an extra punch to it ,i also have a low fat pizza sauce recipe that i will post later, but if one wants to keep it real quick then a good brand store bought sauce is the best option .Follow the diagrams step by step for the recipe given below:

• Place the dough on a work surface and start shaping the pizza ,if using a store bought crust then skip this step.
• Drop a tsp of olive oil in the center and brush  crust thoroughly , transfer the dough on a baking sheet sprinkled with corn meal .
• Dice and cook the chicken well in a non stick pan adding herb and salt as per taste  
• Shred the cheese and slice the onions lengthwise
• Spread the 1/4 cup sauce evenly on the oiled crust taking care at the ends, use more sauce if you want a juicer version  .
• once the sauce is evenly coating the crust, top up with chicken and onions
• Sprinkle cheese ,remember a little goes a long way  .
• Preheat oven on broil. Bake the pizza for first 5 mins on broil.
• Reduce the temperature to 375 F and bake for 20 min or till the crust looks golden brown .
• Let cool and slice out .

The one shown above had a really crispy outside and chewy inside.Remember, crunchiness of the crust depends directly on the oven temperature and the amount of oil used ,although only 2 tsp oil was used in the whole preparation, it was distributed evenly over the surface area, so make sure to brush,brush and brush the crust throughly . I hope that you found this recipe useful .Thank you for visiting my blog - now listen closely , someone's calling! it's the baker inside you!Go try this recipe out and enjoy!