When I read this week's prompt HERE
Have you ever set fire to your kitchen, burned your food, or messed up whilst cooking? I am an expert novice in cooking. What do you think, what else do I do at least five times out of ten in the kitchen, if not messing up with my cooking?
I thought I should show my expertise and write about my experiences in cooking and present it here. Now you are the judge and check how well I make pizza without using an oven.
I will now introduce you to this simple gadget that will help you make a pizza without an oven. The gas grill is available at various shopping sites, but I bought it from Amazon for a price that will keep you wondering why you didn't buy it until now.
I normally eat pizza once a week, but I have been eating it three to four days a week for the last few months or so because I am not getting what I prefer, which are other foods like paratha, stuffed with cauliflower, onion, potato, or cheese, etc., with lots of butter and curd. But that's when I am with my parents. I love eating them. But I guess when I am alone in the city, I hate them because it's a lot of work, so I come back to my quick and easy pizza.
I will give you more recipes in a future post, but here is how I make a pizza with my simple gadget when I am on my own and have no one to cook for me. You guessed it, I'm talking about pizza.
Back to Pizza. I normally order one, but guess what? Being jobless, I prefer to keep a couple of pizza bases in my fridge and cook them as and when I am hungry. I use my griller for making one pizza. It's a handy pizza maker that takes only 10 minutes from beginning to end.
Ingredients: pizza base, sliced cheese, cabbage, but if I have no cabbage, then I fine chop cauliflower, capsicum, green, yellow, or red, whatever capsicum I have in my fridge, but mostly green. 1 tomato, cheese powder, and a few small pieces of paneer (cheese), although cheese is not liked by many, as it makes the pizza soft. Chopped onion, mushrooms, and olives (which are rarely found in my fridge), so I usually skip them. Of course, I don't have pizza sauce, so I use tomato catchup and coriander chutney.
First I chop and cut all the vegetables, including onions, and fry them mildly in a frypan for 3-4 minutes. The rest is simple. I put the pizza maker on the stove, pour 200 gms of water into the inner circle of the maker, and then place the pizza base with all of the fried ingredients on this for 2-3 minutes on low heat. The pizza is ready to eat. I eat it hot with green chutney that is already available in my fridge that I prepare myself in a grinder.
As I told you, I have no oven, so I use this handy pizza maker. Pizza may be out of reach for the poor like me, but its early versions were made for the poor and the unemployed. During my college years, I was always in search of cheap food. So vendors selling roadside food always serve my purpose. I am jobless right now, so it still serves my purpose, but the only difference is that I cook my pizza in my room.
They would take large flatbreads and put some cheap vegetables or meat toppings on them. According to the needs and budgets of workers and students like us who could not stay in hostels, they would cut a portion of the flatbread with toppings and give it to us. I would often go to college after eating it for breakfast, and nowadays I am eating it because I have no work. On a low budget, it keeps my stomach full for a long time. And being a vegetarian, it doesn't cost me much.
The special warning is that you should cook it on slow gas and, because it gets ready within 3–4 minutes, don't leave it unattended. Not even when the IPL is going on and David Warner is batting and you hear the crowd cheering Warner for more SIXES.
Smoke and fire is no more scary for me
I did it last night and saw the result. The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt pizza and my small kitchen filled with multicolored smoke and the smell of the fire was different too. Never leave it to watch TV, even for a moment, because when you come back after enjoying that six, you will get this result of all your hard work, what I have shown in the picture. I switched off the stove and then somehow managed with the smoke and burnt pizza.
RESULT
Summery- If you want to watch a game and cook at the same time, take your cooking to your sitting room or your TV to your kitchen. But that's not possible in my case as both my kitchen and room are too small to accommodate both of these.
JOKES APART
“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.”
– Wolfgang Puck
Thanks for reading and hoping you will not commit the same mistakes as I did!
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