One recent Friday we decided to make a bunch of pizzas. The beauty of pizzas is that they’re really quite easy to make and allow for a wide variety of flavors and tastes in a single meal. Also, while there are a bunch of steps here, most of them can be done in little pieces ahead of time. Dough should be made well ahead of time and the sauce and toppings can all be made hours ahead kept in the fridge. This means a quick finish of just putting the pizzas together once you get hungry.

On this occasion, we were going to just make three pizzas. We tried a Lasagna pizza, with ground beef and ricotta, an Indian-inspired pizza with Saag as the base and chicken and a Thai pizza with a peanut-Siracha sauce and chicken. We had some leftover dough and sauce so added a traditional cheese pizza to the mix as well.

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dpetc Chicken, Indian, Italian, Pizza, Recipes

I grew up in a traditional Indian household, which means I subsisted mainly on a variety of curries, dals, subjis, and assorted other Indian preparations. My favorite dish by far was (and still is) my Mom’s chicken curry. Before graduating from college and moving into my own place, I watched her make her curry and wrote down the recipe. This past weekend, M and I tried the recipe and it turned out exceptionally well (thanks Mom!). We got all of the ingredients at our local normal grocery store, so there is no need to trek out to a specialty Indian grocer or anything like that.

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dpetc Indian, Recipes, Wine

Although I would normally eat chicken curry and saag with rice, M is not a big rice fan. However, we did not want to use the store-bought pita bread or naan as I find them too chewy and off-tasting. Then we remembered that we had some frozen pizza dough in the fridge – made from our simple pizza dough recipe. So we decided to roll it out and grill it and see how it tasted.

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dpetc Indian, Recipes