Pepperoni Pizza Pancakes
I am all in for easy recipes especially for iftar and if it is oil free and healthy double points! 😍 😍
I made a batter that can be used as a pizza base and requires no oven.. Pizza made on a pan with a simple batter. To make it healthy I have used half wheat flour and half of all Purpose Flour* and just a tbsp of olive oil.
For toppings you may use any pizza sauce/bbq/ ranch sauce. I just used a basic pizza sauce here, that I demonstrate in the video/ recipe. I wanted to make mini pepperoni Pizza. But since the real pepperonis were too big for these mini pizza pancakes, I dehydrated my sliced sausage in the oven, for that crispy pepperoni look. Pepperonis are basically sausages with pepper. You may add pepper prior to baking if you like.
This pancake pizza was such a hit! I was so happy to see the happy faces. The batter shouldn't be too thick not too thin, just make sure to prepare a batter with no lumps. The dry ingredients are gradually added one tbsp at a time to the wet ingredients. This batter method is easy during iftar preps so that you don't end up with messy hands, which happens while making the real pizza.
You may use onions and other toppings as per your taste. Pizza is something that adults and kids unanimously love, so it is definitely going to be a hit on your iftar table and healthy and oil free too.
Ingredients :
- 7-8 Chicken Sausages / Franks
- 1 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 Cup Whole wheat flour
- 1 egg
- 1 cup warm milk
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp instant yeast
- 3 tsp Sugar
- Salt as required
- 1/4 cup Chopped Capsicum
- 1/4 cup Black Olives, sliced
- 1 cup Shredded Mozzarella
Tomato Sauce Base:
- 3 tbsp Tomato paste
- 2 tbsp Tomato Ketchup
- 1/4 tsp Oregano
- 1/2 of a Garlic clove, minced
- 3 tbsp Water
- Salt, as required
Instructions :
- To prepare your Pizza Sauce, in a bowl, add tomato paste, tomato ketchup, Oregano, minced garlic clove, salt and water, mix well.
- Slice your sausages thin and place on your baking tray lined with baking paper, sprsy some oil and bake for around 10 minutes or until almost crisp. *
- In a bowl prepare your dry ingredients, ie, all Purpose Flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, instant yeast, sugar and salt and mix well with a dry whisk and set aside.
- In another bowl, pour your lukewarm milk, lukewarm water, melted butter, egg and mix well.
- Slowly and gradually add in your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients bowl, 1 tbsp at a time, so that no lumps form.
- Mix well and make sure there are no lumps.
- In a pan, greased with some olive oil/ butter pour your batter and cook covered for 3-4 minutes on low.
- Open the lid and spread your pizza sauce, add in your toppings, here I have used finely chopped Capsicum and sliced black Olives, Shredded Mozzarella and Pepperoni (prepared earlier).
- Cover and cook until cheese melts.
- Your no Bake, 20 minute Pepperoni Pizza Pancakes are ready! 😋😋🍕
Notes:
- *You may add pepper powder on your sausage prior to baking.
- You may also shallow fry the sliced sausages if you do not have an oven.
- You may use only all Purpose Flour for better texture and results. But since it's for iftar, I wouldn't want to have it that way.
- For easier pouring of pizza batter, to get perfect rounds, you may use a small pan for it, in which you will to pour one pizza base at a time.
- You may use toppings like cooked chicken, Mushroom, sliced onions etc.
