Samosa Chaat Pizza

This is the ultimate and satisfying  dinner if you are a chaat and pizza lover! This samosa chaat pizza gives the fusion of the classic Italian pizza with the mouth watering Indian street food, samosa chole chaat.

I receives samples to aid the process of recipe development. This is a sheet pan pizza and I have used an Anolon baking sheet that spreads the heat uniformly. The handles on this pan give great support and make baking comfortable. This is the best baking sheet out there and I highly recommend Anolon products.

This pizza is designed to give you the comfort of having a chaat in the pizza form. Cheese elevates the flavors of any food and this fusion pizza stands for it. 

Samosa chole chaat is a delicious street food with different sauces as toppings. This pizza brings the exact flavors that you would love on your chaat. The pizza is baked samosa filling sprinkled all over the pizza with  chole curry as sauce, and baked, and served with a delicious drizzle of mint and sweet chutney, and sev.

The crust of this pizza is special. The added carom/ajwain seeds add to the flavors of Indian chaat like kachoris. The crust of the pizza is slightly on the thicker side. This pizza is loaded with heavy sauce and toppings and a thicker base perfectly holds all of the toppings and sauces. Thinner crust would make it floppy. 

Samosa is a delicious deep fried potato stuffed snack with an all-purpose flour crust. The samosa filling made with mashed potatoes and aromatic spices is so delicious that you could as well gobble it up as such. The samosa filling is sprinkled all over the pizza. This is similar to Potato Pizza only that it has added aromatic spices.  This samosa filling is also versatile to add in many delicious recipes like Puff Pastry Samosa Pinwheels, Crescent Roll Samosa Wreath, Lavash Samosa Chaat Roll, Samosa Mummies, Samosa Muffins. 

A thicker version of chole, a garbanzo bean curry, is spread as sauce and it is a chunkier one. I prefer a chunkier version as this gives a textural bite. Based on your preference, some of the garbanzo beans can also be mashed in the sauce. Garbanzo beans also provide protein. 

Finely chopped onions are mostly added in many chaats, and so I have used sliced onions to purport the same experience. Tomatoes may also be used. 

The mint chutney, sweet tamarind dates chutney, sev (a thin noodle like crunchy deep fried snack made with gram flour), chaat masala (a spice mixture that has piquant flavor) are delicious toppings that are drizzled on any chaat. These can be homemade or store-bought. The thin sev and pomegranate are optional. Pomegranate adds to the vibrant colors and a sweet bite here are there.  It is possible to customize these toppings based on individual preferences. A final sprinkle of freshly chopped cilantro notches up the aroma and flavor.

For variations, the pizza can be made in the traditional circular shape too. I preferred the sheet pan version for this loaded pizza, as the square slices give extra support to hold the heavy toppings.

This sheet pan pizza is unique and if you love it, you'll also love these pizza with different flavor profiles from your regular ones.

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I am also linking this to Happiness is Homemade, Full Plate Thursday, Sundays on Silverado, and What’s For Dinner.

Ingredients 

Pizza dough

All purpose flour - 3 cups

Water - 1 cup plus 2 tbsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Sugar - 1 tsp

Active dry yeast- 2 tsp

Carom seeds - 1 tsp

Samosa Filling

Potatoes, mashed - 1 and ¾ cup

Oil - 1 tbsp

Ginger - 1/2 tsp, finely chopped

Garlic - 1/2 tsp, finely chopped

Cumin - 1/2 tsp

Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp

Coriander powder - 1/4 tsp

Garam masala - 1/2 tsp

Thai chili - 1, finely chopped

Cayenne - 1/4 tsp

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Cilantro - 1 tbsp, finely chopped

Dry mango powder - 1/4 tsp

Black salt - 1/4 tsp

For Chole Sauce

Garbanzo beans - 1.5 cups, cooked

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Cayenne - 1/4 tsp

Chole masala powder - 3/4 tsp

Onion - 1/2 cup, chopped

Tomato purée - ⅓ cup

Water - ⅓ cup

Cumin - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 1 tbsp

Ginger - 1 tsp, finely chopped

Garlic - 1 tsp, finely chopped

Cilantro - 1 tbsp, finely chopped

Dry mango powder - 1/4 tsp

Black salt - 1/4 tsp

Toppings

Mozzarella cheese - 1 cup shredded or 6-8 cheese sticks.

Onions - ½ cup, sliced

Mint chutney - 2 tbsp

Sweet tamarind chutney - 2 tbsp

Cilantro - 2 tbsp

Sev - 2 tbsp

Pomegranate - 2 tbsp

Chat masala

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