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Its easy making a pizza. Drop in at Nilgiris or Fatima's or All Saint's and pick up a readymade pizza base. Go home. Wash a couple of tomatoes and puree them in a mixie. Grab a chunk of mozzarella cheese and run it over a scrapper. Slice some onions, capsicum, ham, chicken, salami or whatever combination; of vegetables and meat you want on your pizza and keep aside. Pick up the pizza base, smear the puree and neatly arrange your veg/non-veg combination. Garnish with cheese amd put in an oven for a couple of minutes to bake.
Voila! There's your pizza, all ready to serve. If you don't have an oven, don't worry. Just pick up your good old chappati tava. Lightly toast the pizza base on both sides, then go ahead with the recipe. Put the base badk on the tava. Cover with plate or lid and cook for three to four minutes. Once in a while just slant the tava so the base doesnt get stuck. And you have your pizza.
But alI this is too much of a pain! If you've got the money and the inclination, just pop in at Pepsico's first ever Pizza Hut in India, right here on BangaIore's Cunningham Road and sink your teeth in one hundred per cent real pizza, in All-Anierican and desi combinations,'with a base that's as fluffy as pastry and crispy as a waffle on the outside. Located on three floors of the swanky Prestige Central Point the interiors of this 120-seater restaurant have been designed by Deepak Hazaria's Interiors.
The light's excellent, the space well-utillsed. The only irritants are the artificial plants, a definite no-no in a city known for its greenery. The first Pizza Hut was created by the Carney brothers in 1958 in Kansas. Today it's the world's largest pizza chain with 11,500 outlets in which 1.7 nIlIlion people eat their way though 720 million pizzas every year.
If you're a big eater, you could begin with a soup or an appetiser or nibble at a salad before you pick a wedge of pizza and let the taste buds carry that sense of joy to the rest of the being. The pizzas come in three sizes - Small (7 inches in diameter), Medium (9 inches) and Large (12 inches). There's the Primavera -cheese, capsicum, tomato, baby corn, eggplant; LAB - cheese, lamb korma, mushroom, baby corn; Chicken Tikka - cheese, chicken UlIka, onion; Supreme Pizza - cheese, chicken franker, lamb korma, diced ham, chicken tandoori and many more. Yeah! And you can ask for additional toppings.
what's more, soon there'll be draught beer to go with the pizza. "We are awaiting a licence," says Sandeep Kobli, managing director, Pepsico Restaurants International. The maximum time the kitchen will take to deliver your choice of pizza is 15 minutes, even if it's a take-away. And Its cost: Small begins at Rs 50 and goes up to a maximum of Rs 120 and serves two. Large begins at Rs 150and hits a high of Rs 350.
There's also a range of pasta and ice creams, that comes in handy, if you have a brat, who on entering a pizza outlet, asks for everhing but that. The young staff attired in pin striped shirts of blue and white or pink and white with khaki trousers and brown shoes are, courteous and efficient and don't take ages bringing the change.
Courtesy The Times of India June 22
