Pizza buns

Quantity: 8-10 (depending on size)

Ingredients:

• For Dough:
• Plain flour/ maida: 2 cups
• Instant Dry Active Yeast: 1 tsp (If using Dry Active Yeast, see notes below)
• Salt: 1 tsp
• Sugar:
• Olive Oil: 2 tbsp (You can use any cooking oil)
• For Stuffing:
• Mozrella Cheese: 1/4 cup (~ 2-3 tbsp) (grated)
• Onion: 1 (finely chopped) (optional)
• Green Capsicum: 1/2 (finely chopped)
• Sweetcorn: 2-3 tbsp
• Pizza Sauce/ Tomato Ketchup: 2-3 tbsp
• Courgette: 1/8 cup (finely chopped) (optional)
• Salt: to taste
• Black pepper pwd: 1 tsp
• Oregano: 1-2 tsp
• Ginger Garlic paste: 1 tsp (optional)
• Oil: 1 tsp
• For Garnish: 
• Sesame seeds: 2 tbsp
• Cream/ butter : for oiling

Method:

1. Preparing Dough:
• In a flat pan, add plain flour, salt, sugar, yeast, oil. Mix well. 
• With warm water, knead soft dough (like chapati dough).
• Oil the surface of dough (to prevent it from drying). 
• Fot soft and spongy buns, Knead the dough well for 4-5 minutes till it becomes soft and spongy.
• Cover and keep aside at warm place for 2 hours. (After 2 hours, the dough will rise and double in quantity)
2. Preparing Stuffing:
• Heat oil in pan.
• Add ginger garlic paste, onions. Cook for few minutes.
• Add capsicum. Cook for another minute.
• Add courgette, sweet corn, salt, black pepper pwd, oregano. Cook for few mins.
• Add pizza sauce/ tomato ketchup.
• Keep it aside. Let it cool a bit. (We will use mozrella cheese later)
3. Preparing Pizza Buns:
• With the help of (dry) plain flour, make 8 or more balls from the dough.
• Take 1 ball, flatten it with hands (or rolling pin). Put 2 tsp of stuffing and 1 tsp of mozrella cheese in the center and cover all sides to make a ball again.
• Prepare all stuffed balls in the same way.
• Lightly oil the baking tray and keep all the buns in it.
• Keep this baking tray aside at a warm place for 30 mins. (This will let the buns rise and will now be ready for baking)
• Preheat oven at 200 deg C.
• Oil the top of buns with butter/ cream and sprinkle sesame seeds on it.
• Put the baking tray in oven and bake for 15 mins at 200 deg C till buns are cooked and turn golden brown. (Cook for more time, if needed)
• Pizza buns are ready to serve.

PS:

• If using Instant Dry active yeast- add it directly to the flour while kneading tom make dough.
• If using Dry Active yeast- You have to activate it as under:
• Dry Active yeast: 1 tsp
• Sugar: 1 tsp
• Lukewarm water: 2 tbsp
• Mix all the 3 ingredients. Cover and keep aside for 10 mins.
• Now you can add it while kneading dough.
• For stuffing, you can use any vegetable of your choice.
• For more healthy option, you can use grated paneer (Indian cottage cheese), instead of mozrella cheese.
• Baking time may vary. You might need to use browning function separately to change the clour of buns.