Pizza Mia!
Filed under: What's Cooking by jess
Lunch today was some really awesome homemade pizza. We’d found these imitation pepperoni slices during one of our grocery runs a couple of weeks ago, and finally decided to get a pizza crust and try ‘em out.
Ingredients:
- 1 Pillsbury ready-made pizza crust (It’s in one of those cardboard can thingies that “pops” when you open it).
- 1 cookie sheet or baking tray to put the crust (and everything else) on.
- about 1/4 of a jar of marinara sauce (you can use pizza sauce if you want. We had an open jar of Emeril’s Homestyle Marinara in the fridge and used it, with amazing results.)
- 1 bag of shredded mozzarella or Italian-mix cheese.
- 1 package of Yves brand meatless pepperonis.
- A little sprinkle of Ms. Dash (or whatever herbs & spices you fancy)
- And whatever sort of veggies you want. (We used green bell pepper, white onion, baby portabella mushrooms, pitted kalamata olives, thin-sliced roma tomatoes, and baby spinach leaves.)
Follow the directions on the pizza crust packaging to prepare the crust in the baking tray. Spread the marinara sauce in a fairly even layer over the crust, leaving about 1/4″ of the crust around the edges. Top with pepperonis, green bell pepper, and onions. Add a thin layer of cheese. Top this layer of cheese with the mushrooms, tomatoes, olives, and spinach leaves, and sprinkle on a little spice. Top that layer with yet another layer of cheese. (We used the entire bag of cheese for our pizza. Yum!) Put it in the oven for the recommended amount of time (15 minutes worked well for us). Cook, slice, and enjoy!
Notes from the chef:
The pizza crust was really tasty for being a pre-packaged variety. Also, using the marinara sauce in place of regular ol’ pizza sauce turned out surprisingly well. TONS of flavor! (In fact, it was somewhat difficult to detect the flavor of the pepperonis among all the other deliciousness.)
Next time, I’d like to try mixing together some olive oil, herbs, garlic, and grated parmesan cheese, and brush it over the exposed edges of the crust before baking. Mmmmmm.
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