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Twirly Whirly Pizza
March 25th, 2008 Madhuram Posted in Pizzas | 
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I don’t know what it is with the oven and me, I just love to use the oven. Before starting the new adventure of baking eggless cakes and muffins, I started simply with cooking store bought frozen French fries and pizzas. We prefer making them at home because we can control the amount of cheese and increase the quantity of veggies. I’ve not yet tried to make the dough myself. Recently I have also found a simple recipe to make home made pizza dough using whole wheat flour. Can’t wait to try that!
But before that a simple one to make at home with store bought ingredients. I saw this recipe in Parents Magazine a couple of months back. I wanted to try this for a long time now, but got a chance only today. You need just 4 ingredients to make this beautiful looking and tasty pie. Refrigerated pizza dough, sauce, any cheese of your choice (I used the part skim pizza blend cheese) and fresh baby spinach. This can also be considered a healthy pizza, because it requires only half a cup of cheese and has spinach. Not bad for a pizza, which has a bad reputation as greasy food. The process is also very easy, but a little messy at the end. The next time I bake it I would add some pepper powder/chilly flakes too. It was very bland for our taste. Other than that, this recipe is definitely a keeper. Kids will also enjoy doing this. Find the recipe here.
Stage 1:
Unroll the dough.
Stage 2:
Spread the pizza sauce and sprinkle half of the cheese.
Stage 3:
Top with the spinach leaves. (I used more than 1 cup, so rolling was a bit difficult)
Stage 4:
Roll the dough starting with the short end.
Stage 5:
Cut into 8 pieces and place it in a greased pie tin and sprinkle with remaining cheese.
Stage 6:
Bake it for 22-25 min and indulge!
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March 25th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
thanks for dropping by. you have a lovely site here. do list your site on ‘taste of india’. it’s an RSS aggregator for desi food blogs.
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we’ve added you to our blogroll.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
the pizzas look great..n easy to prepare too..will have to try it sometime
March 25th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
innovative pizza there
March 25th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Bee, You’re welcome. Thank you are visitng my site as well and letting me know about “Taste of India”. I was not aware of that site earlier.
Dhivya, Thank you for visiting my site. ya, the pizzas are very easy to make and tasty also. Just add some heat to it.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Great idea to swirl the pizza , looks perfect for party dish
March 25th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Rachel and Cham, Such a neat idea right? Thanks to Parents Magazine. This is my first experience with refrigerated pizza dough and it has come out well.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:03 am
thats one super cool idea madhu…came to ur blog through TOI and let me go through ur archives in leisure
March 26th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Thanx sia. Welcome to my blog. Hope you will enjoy both the pizza and the blog.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Nice to find another blogger interested in eggless cooking, Madhuram. And the pizza rolls look absolutely fabulous- what a great idea!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Hi Vaishali, I think I cannot take credit for the idea per se. But good for the first try right? Home made pizzas can’t get any easy.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:57 am
NICE idea!! the name is very catchy and the Twirly-wirly pizza looks VERY YUMY!
March 26th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Yes Manasi. I loved it as soon as I saw it in the magazine. It tasted good too. Give it a try.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Your Pizza simply looks great!! Wanna have a bite.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Thanks Nithu, you are welcome anytime.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Wow, wonderful pizzas with beautiful description. Yummy!
March 26th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Hi Uma,
Thanks for dropping by and leaving an encouraging comment.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I will definitely try this one.
The most innovative and tempting Pizza I’ve seen in a long time. Great job Madhuram!
One doubt, can you please tell me at what temperature I should bake the pizza (I am fairly new to baking).
Thanks,
Roma
March 27th, 2008 at 9:58 am
ooh..this looks so nice.. and wat an interesting shape…
March 27th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Roma, welcome back. First pre heat the oven for 15 minutes at 400 F (or 200 C), then prepare the pizza as per the instructions and bake it for 22-25 minutes. Sometimes I also set the mode to broil for 1-2 minutes to get a charred topping. But be cautious while broiling, because it will turn black very quickly. Also leave the oven open while broiling.
I’m also new to baking Roma. As mentioned earlier I also started with pizzas only. Best wishes for your new experiment.
I did not give the quantity of the ingredients and other details because it was from a magazine and I did not want to get myself into any copyright issues. You can find those details in the link given. Thank you.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Thank you for visitng Priya.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
This is an interesting idea. Would love to try this someday. Thanks.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Thanks for visiting. Ya you should definitely try it.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Madhuram,
SO your recipes will be a great resource.
absolutely love this version of pizza, I’m going to be trying it very soon! Love your blog too, as we are in the process of giving up eggs and I love baking
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:40 am
Thank you very much Nandita. Your appreciation means so much to me.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:17 am
As a pizza lover I wanted to try your new twist, or should I say twirl, idea. My first attempt nearly worked. I used a little too much sauce and that made the rolling and sectioning a little messy, and required a little more bake time. But the result was still tasty. I still have ingredients for another try, but I will cut back on the sauce (my favorite part too) next time. THANKS!
April 7th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Gary, thank you very much for trying the pizza. I really appreciate it. Just use half a cup of sauce and 1 cup of spinach that should work out fine.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:04 am
That looks delicious. I just tried home made pizza for the first time last evening and enjoyed doing it. I doubt we can find prepared pizza dough here in Chennai, but this recipe is a keeper. Thanks very much for sharing.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
this is one sensational Pizza Madhu, just loved it.. and I am sure will make it soon.
Siri
May 14th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
@Siri: It’s healthy one too, with just half a cup of cheese and lot of spinach. But you might want to add something to spice it up. It was a little bland. Try adding some red chili flakes.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Hi Madhuram, first time to ur blog. it is suberb. I love ur pizza recipe…will try it soon!!
December 13th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Hi Madhuram,
Iam rekha I just saw your blog and loved it alot beeing a vegetarian I like all your recipes and this pizza is just amaizing can I try this and post it in my blog? Ineed your permission for this please leave a comment in my blog and please visit my blog waiting for your reply
Thanks a lot
rekha
December 28th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Madhu, WHich pizza dough did you use (as it probably has no eggs, if you used it!). –deepa
I use Pillsburry’s Pizza Crust. I hear that even pizzeria’s sell the dough alone, I should try that too and make my own pizza dough too sometime.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I had fun making this with my son. It was easy,fast and delicious! I did add garlic salt and onion powder to it and cooked it at 425 for 35 minutes. Please if you have other easy recipes send them my way.
Thanks for trying it and for your feedback as well Sarah. Sent you an email.
February 7th, 2009 at 3:02 am
hi madhuram,
first of all thanks for dropping by……..n the suggestion,i found all your recipes very interesting, i am a cooking-baking enthusiast too so i think i shall keep coming to your blog in the future…………
You’re welcome Sangeeta.
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hi Madhuram,
Thank you for your simple and delicious recipes. I am a university student and don’t have too much time to cook. This pizza is perfect for my schedule
All your recipes look interesting and fun. Thanks!
You’re welcome Tanvee and thank you very much for your compliments.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
I absolutely love the recipes on your site. They are sooo easy and soo tasty. For this recipe, did you cover with aluminium foil while baking the pizza or uncovered?
Thank you very much Madhura. I did not cover it while baking.