Everyone loves pizza.Why? It’s delicious, varied, and therefore everyone can choose the filling to their taste. If you master simple techniques and learn some secrets, then everyone can cook this popular Italian dish. After all, you can use everything you have in the refrigerator for the filling. Sausage, ham, vegetables, cheese, olives… Pizza with chicken and mushrooms goes well with pizza. Pizza is identified in everyone’s minds with Italy, or more precisely, with Naples. This southern city is considered the birthplace of a wonderful flatbread stuffed with tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and herbs. However, as in the case of pasta, the story turned out to be not so simple. According to numerous historical sources, something similar to pizza was prepared by the inhabitants of Ancient Egypt, the Indians, the Etruscans, and the ancient Greeks. However, for us today this is hardly important. It's great that pizza exists, and it is cooked everywhere, even in Japan, which is known for its passion for preserving national traditions in all spheres of life, including nutrition. But even the Japanese couldn't resist pizza. Perhaps due to their habit of eating seafood, they mainly cook pizza with seafood. It must be said that each country uses its own favorite ingredients for the filling: curry in India, green peas in Brazil. But the main components remain unchanged - dough, tomatoes, cheese. By the way, the dough can be thick or thin, but it is necessarily yeast dough, and the thickness of the flatbread depends on the cooking technology. Accordingly, thin pizza is baked faster, and less filling is put on it. But this does not make it less tasty - thin crispy dough with a crispy crust is still delicious! In general, during the rather long period during which humanity has been eating flatbread with filling, there have been no fundamental changes in the preparation. True, pizza is baked today not on a fire, as it was in ancient times, but in modern electric and gas ovens. However, the most delicious and expensive pizza is always baked on wood. There are probably as many pizza dough recipes as there are pizzerias in the world. And every pizzaiolo (as a pizza maker is called in Italy) keeps it a secret. It is worth experimenting with the dough, and when you achieve the desired result, you can consider that you now have your own pizza dough recipe. What else is important to know for making a delicious pizza? The correct balance of ingredients is very important - one product should not suppress another, on the contrary, they should "be friends", creating a harmonious combination of flavors. And one more thing. All products must be fresh, frozen ingredients kill the taste. That's all, actually. And although we can talk about pizza for a very long time, we will move on to the practical part - to the recipe.
Pizza with chicken and mushrooms
Ingredients for the dough:
- half a kilo of flour
- 350 ml of milk
- 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil
- tablespoon dry yeast
- a teaspoon of sugar
- salt to taste
Ingredients for the filling
- 400 grams of chicken breast fillet
- 300-400 grams of mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms, chanterelles)
- juicy bulb
- 150-200 grams of hard cheese
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 100 ml of acute ketchup
- salt, pepper, spices to taste
How to make the dough Sift the flour,add yeast, salt and sugar. Make a well and slowly pour in warm milk, kneading the soft dough. Leave the bowl with the dough in a warm place for about an hour so that it rises well. After that, knead, knead well and leave for the same amount of time. How to prepare the filling We will need two frying pans. In one, fry the chicken breasts in olive oil with spices and half an onion cut into halves. Fry the washed and sliced mushrooms in a dry frying pan until the moisture evaporates, and then combine them with the fillet, salt and pepper. Cut the tomatoes, previously peeled, into thin slices, the remaining onion - into half rings. Grate the cheese. Making pizza Roll out the dough and place it on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Generously grease the flatbread with hot ketchup, evenly distribute the chicken fillet with mushrooms, put chopped tomatoes and onions on top, sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 20-30 minutes. Note. You can use chicken breast boiled with spices, you can replace the fillet with minced chicken - it's all at your discretion. You can use raw mushrooms, but keep in mind that they release too much moisture during heat treatment, as a result of which the dough will not bake properly. Enjoy your meal! We recommend reading:
