Vegetable Pizza

Recipe No.: W-2

InternationalItalian115 minServes 4

Vegetable pizza is a modern variety topped with roasted or sautéed vegetables over tomato and cheese. Pizza itself is an Italian dish; the earliest recorded use of the word 'pizza' is in a Latin document from the town of Gaeta in AD 997, and no particular inventor of the vegetable version is known.

Origin of the dish: Italy (pizza originates in Naples) — Vegetable pizza is a modern variation on Neapolitan pizza

Ingredients for Vegetable Pizza

• For the dough (makes two large pizzas)
• 500 gbread flour or 00 flour
• 1½ tspinstant yeast, 1½ tsp salt and 1 tsp sugar
• 325 mllukewarm water and 2 tbsp olive oil
• For the sauce and topping
• 300 gpizza sauce, or crushed canned tomatoes with garlic, salt and oregano
• 250 gshredded mozzarella
• 1bell pepper, 1 small zucchini and 1 small red onion, thinly sliced
• 150 gsliced mushrooms and a handful of pitted black olives
• 1 tspdried oregano and 2 tbsp olive oil

Method

1. Mix the flour, yeast, salt and sugar, add the water and oil and knead 10 minutes until smooth and elastic.
2. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour until doubled, then divide into two balls and rest 15 minutes.
3. Heat the oven to 250°C with the tray inside for 30 minutes.
4. Sauté the mushrooms, zucchini and pepper in a pan with a little oil for 3 minutes to remove excess water, then cool.
5. Stretch each ball to a 30 cm disc, spread with sauce and sprinkle with half the cheese.
6. Scatter the vegetables, olives and onion, then the remaining cheese, oregano and a drizzle of oil.
7. Bake each pizza 9 to 11 minutes until the cheese melts and the rim browns, then slice and serve.

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