Paneer Tikka Pizza
An easy paneer tikka pizza with homemade no yeast pizza dough topped with spice marinated paneer and vegetables.
Ingredients
- 5-6 cashew nuts
Tikka Sauce
- 1 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 green chili
- 1 medium onion ¾ - 1 cup
- 1 inch ginger piece
- 2 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 can tomato sauce/puree 8 oz
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 ½ tsp red chili powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- Salt
- 1 tsp sugar or honey
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1 tbsp kasuri methi crushed
- 1/8 tsp cardamom powder
Marinated Paneer
- 150 grams paneer cut into big chunks cubes
- 1/4 thick Greek style yogurt
- 1 tbsp chickpea flour
- 1 tsp green chili and ginger paste
- ½ tbsp tandoori masala
- ½ tsp red chili powder
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp kasuri methi optional
- Salt to taste
Other components
- ½ cup red onions chopped into cubes/slices
- ½ cup green bell/red peppers chopped into cubes/slices
- Jalapenos and cilantro optional
- Pizza Dough or Naan
- Mozzarella cheese
Instructions
Tikka Sauce
- Soak cashew nuts in warm water for few minutes. Keep it aside.
- On medium heat in pan, take some oil or butter and once it’s hot add cumin seeds, onions, garlic, ginger and green chili. Saute it until onions turns translucent. Add other spices too along with fennel seeds, and then add cashew nuts and tomato sauce. Let it cook for few seconds and then let it cool down.
- Blend this mixture once it cools down with 1/4 -1/3 cup water. You can add some water too if you like. (Optional)Strain the mixture after blending so that sauce looks smooth and silky.
- Heat butter in a pan on medium heat. Once it’s hot, add prepared onion tomato sauce. Stirring occasionally cook it until it thickens up for 3-4 minutes. Add spices like red chili, turmeric, coriander powder and salt. Add garam masala close to it getting cooked along with crushed kasuri methi and add sugar or honey. Add cardamom powder too. Mix and let it simmer for few seconds and turn off the flame. Let it set aside and cool down.
Marinated Paneer
- Take all the ingredients for the marination and give it a stir.
- Marinate the paneer cubes in the yogurt mix. Leave it aside.
Assemble Pizza
- To assemble – Preheat oven to 450F. If you are using baking stone, then leave it in to preheat. Take your pizza dough, shape it or if using flatbread/naan, just lay it down on parchment paper (it helps transfer pizza). Add tikka sauce, cheese and then toppings like paneer, vegetables. Add some more cheese and bake it away at 450 F for about 10-15 minutes. It should be done when the cheese has melted, and you see the pizza base looks cooked and browned.
- Remove and serve it with cilantro chutney, arugula/greens, oregano, chili flakes etc.
Notes
- Flat bread dough is shared click on the link. Roll and cook them half done first before assembling it into pizza.
- You can use some other vegetables too like broccoli, corn, or mushrooms, olives etc.