Pesto and courgette pizza is on the menu today, and trust me, this combination is a game-changer! It's one of my absolute favourites, and if you try it, it will become yours too.
Vegan, refined sugar free | Serves 1 | MAIN
Ingredients:
- 1 courgette/zucchini
- 1 garlic clove -1 tablespoon of olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Pinch dried oregano
- 1 ball of pizza dough
- 2 tablespoons pesto (homemade or storebought)
- Plant-based cheese (I used Parveggio grated from Green Vie)
- Semolina for spreading
- 20g plant-based feta
- Few fresh basil leaves
Steps:
1.Preheat your oven. If you are using a house conventional oven, bring it to the highest temperature (250°C - see notes for baking tray). If you are using a Piana gas pizza oven by Ziipa, turn it on to reach 400°C (this takes approximately 30 minutes).
2.Remove your dough from the fridge while you prepare the ingredients.
3.Cut the courgette and garlic in thin slices, place them in a bowl along with the olive oil, and season with salt, pepper and oregano. Mix to combine.
4.Crumble the feta in small pieces and wash the basil leaves, set aside.
5.Carefully place the dough on a clean surface that you have sprinkled some flour on and add some extra flour on top of the dough.
6.Gently press the dough from the centre outward with your fingers, rotating it as you go, until it forms a large disc.
7.Pick up the dough with your hands, make fists, and drape the dough over your knuckles. Gently and slowly pull your hands apart to stretch the dough. Rotate the dough over your hands and continue to stretch in this way a few more times until the dough has spread to about 10 to 12 inches in diameter.
8.Lay the dough back on the work surface, sprinkle a little flour or semolina on your pizza peel or a wooden chopping board, and lay the dough on it.
9.Before you start adding ingredients, shake the pizza peel/board back and forth to make sure that the pizza moves. Then spread the pesto, add the courgette and garlic slices, sprinkle some cheese and finish with some oregano.
10.Carefully slide the prepared pizza from the peel or board onto the preheated oven baking tray or preheated pizza stone.
11.In a house oven, bake it for 5-6 minutes or until golden. If you are using a pizza oven, it can take from 2-4 minutes.
12.If using the Piana gas pizza oven, use the wheel to rotate it.
13.Once baked, remove from the oven, sprinkle the feta and basil leaves, cut and enjoy!
Enjoy!
Notes:
*When preheating the oven at home, add your oven baking tray in to heat as well but turned up-sight down.