Hot and spicy tandoori chicken pizza is the best desi pizza that you can easily make at home using your spices. If you are excited to make it then join me and make this homemade tandoori flavor chicken pizza that will give the same flavor as you eat on street food. Desi pizza has an unbeatable taste for desi taste buds.
If are looking for desi pizza around you then try this homemade Pakistani and Indian street-style desi pizza recipe filled with all the spices and flavor that you eat in tandoori chicken pizza. The best is that anyone can try this pizza at home as it is super simple, easy, and delicious.
Mostly the people from South Asian countries especially from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh look for this option. So If you are desi then you must try this desi pizza recipe that I specially prepared for my online family. I am making different styles of desi pizza for a very long time. My pizza-making journey gave me the experience to play with different tastes by adding variations in ingredients and toppings.
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What is Desi Pizza?
Desi pizza is traditional-style pizza that people make on tandoor (clay oven) which is also called tandoori pizza. Pizza dough is more or less like a naan bread dough that adds a desi feature in pizza crust. There are so many options to add in toppings like to add veggies, chicken tikka, tandoori chicken, butter chicken, kebabs, or whatever you have as an option in your kitchen.
The recipe of desi pizza or you can call it tandoori chicken pizza will surely attract the desi people who are living outside away from the home county and looking for halal options for desi pizza. Here is an easy and convenient recipe to make at home.
As the desi pizza is getting popular and demand is growing so many international pizza chains are also making desi style pizza with Indian and Pakistani spices.
Why I Love Desi Tandoori Chicken Pizza Recipe?
My mother used to prepare different styles of desi pizza recipes at home using leftover roti or naan that work as a pizza crust. Topped with homemade tandoori chicken chunks, veggies, chilies, chaat masala, and loaded with cheese. She used to make this pizza on the skillet (Tawa). The flavor was superb and I still remember the aroma of that homemade pan pizza with sizzling and bubbling texture.
I am inspired by this idea, so making the same style of pizza by making pizza dough with naan flavor and adding tandoori chicken tikka topping with onion rings, capsicums, and green chilies. A generous sprinkle of chaat masala will add a big influence to enhance the desi flavor. Loaded with mozzarella cheese and baked in the oven which is of course my tandoor at home.
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Ingredients
For Pizza Dough: Instant Yeast + Water + Sugar + All purpose Flour + Salt + Olive Oil
For Toppings:
Onion Rings + Capsicum + Tandoori Chicken Tikka Chunks + Mozzarella Cheese + Chaat Masala + Egg wash
Tandoori chicken Pizza at street food brings the best flavor for desi people. Here I am making desi pizza at home with all the desi spices and toppings to give the best flavor. Must try this!
How to Make Tandoori Chicken Pizza
Step 01: Preparation of Desi Pizza Dough
Take a deep mouth bowl, add instant yeast, water, and sugar. Mix well! Cover the bowl for 10 minutes to rise the yeast. As the yeast gets bubbly and foamy in texture then add all purpose flour, salt, yogurt, and olive oil. Crumble everything and knead the flour to make the soft dough. (Note: you can add water if the dough is dry). Cover and rest the dough for 2 hours in a warm place. After 2 hours the dough will be double or triple in size. Knead the dough and distribute it in 2 segments. Use 1 segment to make the pizza crust. The other segment can be used to make another pizza.
Now knead the dough with the help of flour and make a big roti/flatbread with the help of hands. Transfer it to the pizza tray. Make sure to place Aluminum foil and apply oil on the base. Now with the hands spread the sides of the pizza to make it big and circular. Fold the edges with your hand. Now the crust is ready to add pizza toppings.
Step 2: Preparation of Tandoori Chicken for Pizza
Whenever I make tandoori chicken at home or take from outside, always use the leftover to make quick and easy pizza for next day. This is simple and easy. Here in this recipe, I used the tandoori chicken tikka chunks that I prepared a day before.
Here is the recipe, if you want to make tandoori chicken for pizza at home on stovetop.
In a heated pan, pour 1 tablespoon of oil and add 1 cup of small chicken pieces and quickly stir until the chicken pieces started to change color. Sauté with 1 teaspoon of ginger garlic paste for a minute. Season with ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon red chili powder, ½ teaspoon paprika, ½ teaspoon coriander powder, and small pinch of turmeric powder and give it good mix. Add ⅓ cup thick yogurt and cook it until the chicken starts to blend with chicken and forms a thick curry. Sprinkle ½ teaspoon of homemade garam masala and Splash 50 ml of water and cover for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, check the water. Tandoori chicken needs to be dry. If there is some water, then evaporate on high heat. Now you chicken is ready to add as a topping on pizza.
Recipe of Tandoori chicken for pizza topping in Oven
In a bowl, add ⅓ cup yogurt, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon red chili powder, ½ teaspoon paprika, ½ teaspoon coriander powder, a small pinch of turmeric, and ½ teaspoon of garam masala and give it a good mix. Marinate 1 cup of boneless chicken pieces for an hour. Preheat the oven before 10 minutes at 220C and place the marinated chicken in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Broil for 10 minutes to get nice roasted color. Your homemade tandoori chicken is ready to add as topping on your desi pizza.
Step 3: Toppings
Add thick Pizza sauce. (I used the ready-made pizza sauce). Apply a thick layer of mozzarella cheese. Place onion rings, small pieces of capsicum, and green chilies all around the pizza. Generously topped with Chicken tikka chunks. Sprinkle chaat masala to add purely desi flavor. Make another layer of mozzarella at the top. Apply egg wash on pizza crust edges.
Step 3: Bake in Oven
Preheat the oven at 220°C or 428°F and bake the pizza for 12 to 15 minutes.
Now it's ready to take out! enjoy your desi pizza time.
Expert Tips
- Use good quality instant yeast as it’s the main ingredient that will make the perfect pizza crust. Check it by adding in lukewarm water with sugar. Cover it and leave for 10 minutes in a warm place. If it’s foamy, bubbly, and double in size the yeast is good and you are ready to make your dough.
- Don’t skip sugar to add with instant yeast as it will work as a catalyst to accelerate the yeasting process.
- Properly knead the dough.
- If you are a beginner and seems difficult to make dough then take ready-made pizza dough.
- Don’t forget to brush oil on the pizza base. It will help to make a toasted base that will give you good taste while eating.
- Add toppings as per your convenience and availability.
- Mozerella and cheddar cheese make a perfect combination to make cheese strings in pizza.
- Use thick pizza sauce and make sure the pizza sauce should not be watery otherwise the pizza will get soggy after some time.
- Chaat masala will add a perfect desi touch so don’t skip it. If you are reluctant then give it a try!
- Egg wash brushing on pizza crust edges will make it extremely lustrous and golden in color after baking.
- Monitor the time of baking according to your over requirements. Mine was 12 to 15 minutes.
Serving
There are different options to serve addons with pizza. I personally like to have and serve salad. The best option is to add healthy chickpea salad, veg macaroni salad, creamy mango fruit salad, or fresh fruit salad.
Along with this, Potato Wedges, Oven Fries, and Chicken Wings are best!
To be very honest, carbonated drinks go well with pizza but you can switch it with fresh juice.
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Variations
There are many options to add variation in pizza toppings.
Here are some ideas:
- chicken tikka pizza
- Use fried fish as topping
- Seekh kabab makes a good flavor in pizza (I have tried)
- Naan veggie pizza
- Roasted Paneer Pizza
- Aloo Pizza
- In sauces, you can also add green chutney.
- Most of the Indian pizza serves with roasted almonds and cashews on topping.
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How to Store and Reheat
You can store the leftover pizza slices in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 days. Don’t store it for a long time as it’s homemade and doesn’t carry food preservatives.
To reheat, it’s best to microwave for 2 minutes. To reheat on a skillet, first, preheat the skillet and place the pizza slices over it. Give a splash of water to the base of the skillet and cover it for 3 to minutes on medium heat. The steam of water will melt the cheese and it will be reheat like a fresh one.
Q & A
Yes, it is! Prepared with naan bread dough and topped with onion, capsicum, and chicken tikka. Chaat masala added to create true desi flavor.
People from Amritsar and Pindi make tandoori pizza which is famous as Punjabi pizza. Most people refer it to as Indian pizza or desi-style pizza.
Yes, it is! But can be manageable as per the people's taste. It’s been prepared with a desi touch using desi ingredients so most of the spices contain spice like red chili powder and green chilies are the main ingredients to create spice in pizza.
As it’s a desi pizza so to add a desi flavor matched with naan. Yogurt will add softness and make fluffy pizza crust.
Yes, you can! But it will not be as fluffy as the yeast perform the job. Both are leavening agents so you can use them accordingly.
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Desi Pizza (Tandoori Chicken Pizza)
Ingredients
- 11 g Instant Yeast
- 100 ml Water
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- 3 cups All purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
- 10 Onion Rings
- 1 tablespoon Capsicum
- 1 Cup Chicken Tikka Chunks
- Mozerella Cheese
- 1 teaspoon Chaat Masala
- 1 Egg wash
Instructions
- Prepare the Pizza Dough
- In a deep bowl, add instant yeast, lukewarm water, and sugar. Give it a good mix.
- Cover the bowl for 10 minutes to rise the yeast.
- As the yeast gets bubbly and foamy in texture then add all purpose flour, salt, yogurt, and olive oil.
- Crumble the flour and make a soft dough. Knead it to make it smooth in texture. You can use a dough mixing machine or just do it with your hand. (Note: you can add water if the dough is dry).
- Cover and rest the dough for 2 hours in a warm place. After 2 hours the dough will be double or triple in size. Knead the dough and distribute the dough in 2 segments. Use 1 segment to make the pizza crust. The other segment can be used to make another pizza.
- Knead the dough with the help of dusting flour and make a big pizza crust with the help of hands.
- On a pizza tray, place the aluminum foil and drizzle the oil at the base and rub it to the foil to make it greasy. Now transfer the crust to pizza tray and stretch it with the help of a hand to make a big pizza crust. You can make thick on thin crust as per your choice. Fold it from the sides to make edges of the pizza. Now the crust is ready to add pizza toppings.
Tandoori Chicken For Pizza
- In a bowl, add ⅓ cup yogurt, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon red chili powder, ½ teaspoon paprika, ½ teaspoon coriander powder, small pinch of turmeric, ½ teaspoon of garam masala and give it a good mix. Marinate 1 cup boneless chicken pieces for an hour. Preheat the oven before 10 minutes at 220C and place the marinated chicken in oven and bake for 30 minutes. Broil for 10 minutes to get nice roasted color. Your homemade tandoori chicken is ready to add as topping on your desi pizza.
Arrange Toppings
- First, pour the pizza sauce and spread it evenly. (I used the ready-made pizza sauce).
- Apply a layer of mozzarella cheese.
- Place onion rings, small pieces of capsicum and green chilies all around the pizza.
- Generously topped with Chicken tikka chunks.
- Sprinkle chaat masala. It will add an absolute desi flavor.
- Make another layer of mozzarella at top
- Apply egg wash on pizza crust edges. It will add a lustrous texture after baking.
Bake the Pizza
- Preheat the oven at 220°C or 428°F and bake the pizza for 12 to 15 minutes.
- Take it out and enjoy!
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Notes
- Use good quality instant yeast as it’s the main ingredient that will make the perfect pizza crust. Check it by adding in lukewarm water with sugar. Cover it and leave for 10 minutes in a warm place. If it’s foamy, bubbly, and double in size the yeast is good and you are ready to make your dough.
- Don’t skip sugar to add with instant yeast as it will work as a catalyst to accelerate the yeasting process.
- Properly knead the dough.
- If you are a beginner and seems difficult to make dough then take ready-made pizza dough.
- Don’t forget to brush oil on the pizza base. It will help to make a toasted base that will give you good taste while eating.
- Add toppings as per your convenience and availability.
- Mozerella and cheddar cheese make a perfect combination to make pizza.
- Make sure the pizza sauce should not be watery otherwise the pizza will get soggy after some time.
- Chaat masala will add a perfect desi touch so don’t skip it. If you are reluctant then give it a try!
- Egg wash brushing on pizza crust edges will make it extremely lustrous and golden in color after baking.
- Monitor the time of baking according to your over requirements. Mine was 12 to 15 minutes.
Ayesha
Wow your desi pizza looks so yum! May I have a bite 😂
Hinz
Thanks Ayesha! Yes, I wish I can deliver.. It's easy to prepare at home 🙂
Hinz
Must try this desi style pizza recipe at home. It will give you flavor of tandoori pizza that we eat on street food.