Pesto Paneer Pizza

Ingredients 

• Fresh pizza dough for 2 pizza bases
• ½ cup pesto sauce
• 200 grams cottage cheese (paneer) 
• Olive oil as required
• A little dry refined flour (maida)
• 2 medium onions
• 1 medium red capsicum
• 16 cherry tomatoes
• 100 grams mozzarella cheese
• 12-16 black olives,sliced

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180° C.
2. Add a little olive oil to the dough and knead lightly. Divide the dough into 2 equal portions and roll them into balls. Roll each ball in dry flour and pat to a round and slightly thick roundel.
3. Grate the cottage cheese into a bowl, add pesto sauce and mix well.
4. For each pizza, lightly grease a pan with oil, place a dough roundel in it, spread a generous layer of cottage cheese-pesto mixture over it.
5. Lightly crush the onion and red capsicum strips. Spread some of it over the cottage cheese mixture. Spread a few halved cherry tomatoes.
6. Slice the mozzarella cheese. Tear a couple of slices into small pieces and spread on top of the vegetables. Spread a few more halved red cherry tomatoes on top of the cheese. Sprinkle a few black olive slices.
7. Keep the pan in the preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes or till the pizza base gets cooked and the cheese melts.
8. Keep each pizza on individual serving plate and serve hot.

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