Healthy pizza sauce for kids and multigrain roti pizza for tiffin

Pizza sauce is another sauce where I like to load up on vegetables without compromising on taste. Like the cheesy vegetable sauce, I store this pizza sauce in the freezer too. I obviously use it to make pizzas in no time, but more often, I use it to make multigrain pizza roti for the daughter's lunchbox.

Healthy pizza sauce

pizza on a homemade base

multigrain roti pizza

Ingredients:

1	onion
5 cloves	garlic
half of a small	beetroot
1	carrot
10	french beans
quarter of a	bottlegourd/lauki
7	tomatoes
1 small	capsicum/bellpepper
1 tsp	salt
1 tsp	sugar
1 tsp	mixed herbs
1 tbsp	olive oil

Method

• Heat the olive oil in a pressure cooker.
• Add the chopped vegetables in order (onion, garlic,beetroot,carrot, french beans, bottlegourd, and tomatoes), sauteeing briefly after each vegetable.
• Once all the vegetables are well sauteed on medium-high heat, add enough water to barely cover the vegetables and cook for 3-4 whistles on medium heat.
• Once cooled, puree the vegetables.
• Transfer the puree back to the pressure cooker and cook for 15-20 minutes till it turns into a thick paste like sauce.
• Flavour with salt, sugar and mixed herbs.
• Once completely cooled, store in an airtight container and freeze.

Notes:

• This sauce stays well in the freezer for 3 months.
• The quantity of tomatoes are almost equal to the rest of the vegetables combined. This helps the sauce to still taste tomatoey like a real pizza sauce.

Multigrain Pizza Roti (Quesadilla)

multigrain roti

roti spread with pizza sauce and cheese

roti quesadilla cooked till the cheese has melted

Method

• Take 1/4 cup of homemade multigrain flour* and 1-2 tablespoons of wheat flour and make a chapati dough with some salt and water.
• Roll out 2 chapatis from this dough and dry roast them on the tawa on both sides.
• Spread the pizza sauce on one chapati and top with grated cheese or a cheese slice broken into pieces (like the picture above).
  
• Top it with the other chapati.
• Turn this pizza roti sandwich into a quesadilla by roasting both sides on the tawa with some olive oil.

Notes:

• I mix jowar flour, ragi flour(nachni), flaxseed powder, rajgira flour, kulith flour, and poppy seeds (written in decreasing order of quantity) and keep it in an airtight container ready to use.