Veggie Pizza Recipe

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Veggie Pizza Recipe

Use this veggie pizza recipe as a simple guide to create ANY type of vegetable pizza recipe that you like. The vegetables used here are commonly found in Italian pizzerias, but let your imagination run wild - make your pizza the way you like it!

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 lb peeled plum tomatoes, fresh or canned - if using can a 16 oz can should suffice (or 2 cups of basic tomato sauce recipe)

1 recipe Pizza Dough (or store-bought dough), rolled out

1 3/4 cups fresh mozzarella cheese, diced

dozen leaves of fresh basil, torn into small pieces

3 tbsp freshly grated Parmesan cheese

1 medium white onion, sliced

1/2 large red bell pepper, cleaned and sliced

5-6 baby portabella mushrooms, cleaned and sliced

1 tsp garlic powder

4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

salt and ground black pepper

Preheat your oven to 475ºF. Roll out your dough as indicated in the pizza dough recipe. Using a pastry brush or spoon, coat the dough with the olive oil. Evenly sprinkle the garlic powder, salt and pepper over your dough.

Purée the tomatoes in a food processor or blender. When it is sufficiently blended, spread the tomato sauce over your prepared dough.

In the meantime, heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a medium skillet, and toss in your veggies. Cook on medium heat until the veggies begin to soften and release their juices. Turn off the heat.

Sprinkle the dough evenly with mozzarella cubes (shredded mozzarella can work just fine here too). Sprinkle the pie with parmesan cheese and dot the surface with basil. Top the pizza off with your partially cooked veggies.

Place the pizza in the oven. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted and bubbly.

Remove from heat, slice up and serve! Yum!

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