Thai/Italian cooking; Thai Chicken pizza
Every Christmas, I make a few kinds of pizza from scratch for family. It takes a few hours from start to finish, and it is never be a quick cooking category but, I always enjoy planning creative flavors on homemade pizza for big night.
Best part of being part of holiday tradition is that not only I get to have fun being creative with "flavor of the year", but also I get to see smiles on their face eating my pizza.
Since homemade pizza seems to be a hit among family,I thought I would share the recipe with you one flavor at a time. This time, Thai chicken pizza.
So, how do you make Thai chicken pizza? Here is how.
Thai Chicken pizza...
** To make pizza, if you were pressed with time, you can buy fresh pizza dough or use flat bread instead
<Pizza dough>
0. Preheat the oven at 200F and when it reached to 200F,turn the oven off
1. To a microwave safe bowl, pour 1.5C water, microwave about 45 seconds or so
2. Take a temperature of the water and if the temperature was at 110F-115F, add 2 1/4tsp of dry yeast (one package of dry yeast if you use packaged dry yeast), 1.5tsp sugar, and mix well and let it sit a while (about 5-10 minutes)
** If you use jar of dry yeast, make sure the yeast is at room temperature. Cold yeast would not make your dough rise properly.
** Water to rise the dough (proof the dough) should be at 110F-115F. Lower temperature water would not proof the dough properly, and higher temperature water would kill the yeast and would not proof the dough properly.
You should see the frothy stuff on top like this..
3. To a big bowl, add 2 1/8C Unbleached All purpose flour, 2 1/8C Unbleached bread flour, 1.5tsp salt and mix well
4. Pour the frothy yeast-sugar- lukewarm water mix to flour-salt mixture a little at a time and stir and when dough became to form a ball, toss them onto lightly floured surface, and start kneading the dough
** Using silpat mat is easy to work with
5. Knead the dough until it is not sticky, but smooth surface and elastic. I usually knead for about 8 minutes.
You can test your dough to see if you knead it more. Do the Windowpane test.
What is windowpane test??
Windowpane test is the test the gluten development in the dough.
What you do is to cut off small piece of dough,and gently stretch out/pulling to see if it will hold a paper-thin membrane.If it tore apart,you would knead a bit more and do the test again.
6. When dough became smooth surface and elastic and not sticky, drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil onto empty bowl and smear it around side and inside bottom to make easy for you to take the dough out later to roll out
7. Place the dough into the bowl,drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil over the dough and smear the oil all around the dough
8. Cover the bowl with saran, and place the dough in the oven,set the timer for 90 minutes
** Using the preheated/turned off oven to rise the dough (proof the dough) is perfect weather proof method.
9. 90 minutes later, dough should be double in volume
Dough should be double in volume..
10. Once the dough gets double, punch down the dough to let the gas out from the dough and make the inner/outer dough temperature equal
11. Toss the dough onto lightly floured surface, and roll out the dough to shape you like, and preheat the oven at 425F to 450F
** There are many kinds of rolling pin but I like the French rolling pin
** If you were to make a crispy pizza, roll out thin and bake at higher temperature
12. If you have pizza stone, use the pizza stone to bake it,but if you do not have one,use the cookie sheet
13. To the half sheet pan/cookie sheet,place non stick foil,sprinkle yellow corn meal
** Sprinkle yellow corn meal before placing the dough onto the foiled half sheet pan is a secret to make crunchy bottom
14. Place the dough onto foiled half sheet pan/cookie sheet, make a little wedge around corner using side of your hand
15. Blush the dough with extra virgin olive oil
16. Place the toppings/sauce and let it rest for 5 minutes or so on counter, covering the pizza with saran loosely
17. Bake the pizza at 425F-450F till the edge become brown
<Thai chicken pizza topping>
1. Pour enough cold water into a sauce pan to cover boneless,skinless chicken breast, add splash of sherry and boil
2. When chicken is cooked through, let it come to room temperature and shred them and keep in a Tupperware
3.To a small bowl, add 4 tbs creamy peanut butter, 3 tbs water, 3 tbs rice vinegar, 2 tbs soy sauce,1/8 tsp sambal oelek (sambal oelek is Indonesian style chili paste. You can get them at Asian store), 1/2 tbs grated ginger,1.5 tbs honey and mix well
** Bellow is a picture of Sambal (Indonesian style chili paste). I like Huy Fong brand with green cap.
Sambal (spicy Indonesian style chili paste)..
4. Mix some of the peanut sauce with shredded chicken
5. Brush the rolled out pizza dough with peanut sauce
6. Place peanut sauce coated shredded chicken, thinly sliced red onion, thinly sliced carrot over the dough
7. place small bits of fresh mozzarella (about 6-9 pieces,about the size of your thumb nail) and top it with low moisture shredded mozzarella cheese and bake at 425F for 18 minutes or until cheese gets melted and edge becomes brown
** You cannot use fresh mozzarella cheese 100% because it hold lots of moisture and it makes puddle of water pool on top of pizza,so it is best to mix with low moisture shredded cheese with low ratio for fresh mozzarella cheese
** Monterey jack cheese also goes well with Thai chicken pizza
8. When pizza is done, take handful of fresh cilantro and chop fine and sprinkle over the pizza
9. Enjoy!
A slice of Thai chicken pizza..
*** If you had left over peanut sauce, you can cook chicken or beef or shrimp etc along with fresh vegetable you have in your fridge and pour the sauce over and you can enjoy the quick one pot recipe that way.
Hmm.. I smell Pizza!
Did you make Pal's chicken pizza too,mom?
I need a piggy-back ride to check it myself..
Best part of being part of holiday tradition is that not only I get to have fun being creative with "flavor of the year", but also I get to see smiles on their face eating my pizza.
Since homemade pizza seems to be a hit among family,I thought I would share the recipe with you one flavor at a time. This time, Thai chicken pizza.
So, how do you make Thai chicken pizza? Here is how.
Thai Chicken pizza...
** To make pizza, if you were pressed with time, you can buy fresh pizza dough or use flat bread instead
<Pizza dough>
0. Preheat the oven at 200F and when it reached to 200F,turn the oven off
1. To a microwave safe bowl, pour 1.5C water, microwave about 45 seconds or so
2. Take a temperature of the water and if the temperature was at 110F-115F, add 2 1/4tsp of dry yeast (one package of dry yeast if you use packaged dry yeast), 1.5tsp sugar, and mix well and let it sit a while (about 5-10 minutes)
** If you use jar of dry yeast, make sure the yeast is at room temperature. Cold yeast would not make your dough rise properly.
** Water to rise the dough (proof the dough) should be at 110F-115F. Lower temperature water would not proof the dough properly, and higher temperature water would kill the yeast and would not proof the dough properly.
You should see the frothy stuff on top like this..
3. To a big bowl, add 2 1/8C Unbleached All purpose flour, 2 1/8C Unbleached bread flour, 1.5tsp salt and mix well
4. Pour the frothy yeast-sugar- lukewarm water mix to flour-salt mixture a little at a time and stir and when dough became to form a ball, toss them onto lightly floured surface, and start kneading the dough
** Using silpat mat is easy to work with
5. Knead the dough until it is not sticky, but smooth surface and elastic. I usually knead for about 8 minutes.
You can test your dough to see if you knead it more. Do the Windowpane test.
What is windowpane test??
Windowpane test is the test the gluten development in the dough.
What you do is to cut off small piece of dough,and gently stretch out/pulling to see if it will hold a paper-thin membrane.If it tore apart,you would knead a bit more and do the test again.
6. When dough became smooth surface and elastic and not sticky, drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil onto empty bowl and smear it around side and inside bottom to make easy for you to take the dough out later to roll out
7. Place the dough into the bowl,drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil over the dough and smear the oil all around the dough
8. Cover the bowl with saran, and place the dough in the oven,set the timer for 90 minutes
** Using the preheated/turned off oven to rise the dough (proof the dough) is perfect weather proof method.
9. 90 minutes later, dough should be double in volume
Dough should be double in volume..
10. Once the dough gets double, punch down the dough to let the gas out from the dough and make the inner/outer dough temperature equal
11. Toss the dough onto lightly floured surface, and roll out the dough to shape you like, and preheat the oven at 425F to 450F
** There are many kinds of rolling pin but I like the French rolling pin
** If you were to make a crispy pizza, roll out thin and bake at higher temperature
12. If you have pizza stone, use the pizza stone to bake it,but if you do not have one,use the cookie sheet
13. To the half sheet pan/cookie sheet,place non stick foil,sprinkle yellow corn meal
** Sprinkle yellow corn meal before placing the dough onto the foiled half sheet pan is a secret to make crunchy bottom
14. Place the dough onto foiled half sheet pan/cookie sheet, make a little wedge around corner using side of your hand
15. Blush the dough with extra virgin olive oil
16. Place the toppings/sauce and let it rest for 5 minutes or so on counter, covering the pizza with saran loosely
17. Bake the pizza at 425F-450F till the edge become brown
<Thai chicken pizza topping>
1. Pour enough cold water into a sauce pan to cover boneless,skinless chicken breast, add splash of sherry and boil
2. When chicken is cooked through, let it come to room temperature and shred them and keep in a Tupperware
3.To a small bowl, add 4 tbs creamy peanut butter, 3 tbs water, 3 tbs rice vinegar, 2 tbs soy sauce,1/8 tsp sambal oelek (sambal oelek is Indonesian style chili paste. You can get them at Asian store), 1/2 tbs grated ginger,1.5 tbs honey and mix well
** Bellow is a picture of Sambal (Indonesian style chili paste). I like Huy Fong brand with green cap.
Sambal (spicy Indonesian style chili paste)..
4. Mix some of the peanut sauce with shredded chicken
5. Brush the rolled out pizza dough with peanut sauce
6. Place peanut sauce coated shredded chicken, thinly sliced red onion, thinly sliced carrot over the dough
7. place small bits of fresh mozzarella (about 6-9 pieces,about the size of your thumb nail) and top it with low moisture shredded mozzarella cheese and bake at 425F for 18 minutes or until cheese gets melted and edge becomes brown
** You cannot use fresh mozzarella cheese 100% because it hold lots of moisture and it makes puddle of water pool on top of pizza,so it is best to mix with low moisture shredded cheese with low ratio for fresh mozzarella cheese
** Monterey jack cheese also goes well with Thai chicken pizza
8. When pizza is done, take handful of fresh cilantro and chop fine and sprinkle over the pizza
9. Enjoy!
A slice of Thai chicken pizza..
*** If you had left over peanut sauce, you can cook chicken or beef or shrimp etc along with fresh vegetable you have in your fridge and pour the sauce over and you can enjoy the quick one pot recipe that way.
Hmm.. I smell Pizza!
Did you make Pal's chicken pizza too,mom?
I need a piggy-back ride to check it myself..
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