Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Roasted Vegetable and Ricotta Pizza

(from Shine on YaHoo)


This week, I'm doing it a little different. I'm posting my recipes - because I find them all over the Internet - and then I'm going to cook them. If they're not up to snuff, then I'm erasing them. That's the short of it. But I keep seeing a recipe that I know I should remember and my mind is becoming too garbled with other things that I really should remember.

With that, here's a recipe that looks so good. I might go with Shine's suggestion and buy storebought pizza dough, but my own pizza dough is so easy and I always make a double or triple batch and freeze it.

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Roasted Vegetable and Ricotta Pizza
Ingredients:
1 pound refrigerated fresh pizza dough
2 cups sliced cremini mushrooms
1 cup (1/4-inch-thick) slices zucchini
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 medium yellow bell pepper, sliced
1 medium red onion, cut into thick slices
5 1/2 teaspoons olive oil, divided
1 tablespoon yellow cornmeal
1/3 cup tomato sauce
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/3 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
2 tablespoons small fresh basil leaves

Preparation:
1. Position an oven rack in the lowest setting; place a pizza stone on rack. Preheat oven to 500°.
2. Remove dough from refrigerator. Let stand, covered, for 30 minutes.
3. Combine mushrooms and next 4 ingredients (through onion) in a large bowl; drizzle with 1 1/2 tablespoons oil. Toss. Arrange vegetables on a jelly-roll pan. Bake at 500° for 15 minutes.
4. Punch dough down. Sprinkle a lightly floured baking sheet with cornmeal; roll dough out to 15-inch circle on prepared baking sheet. Brush dough with 1 teaspoon oil. Spread sauce over dough, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Sprinkle 1/2 cup mozzarella over sauce; top with vegetables. Sprinkle 1/2 cup mozzarella and red pepper over zucchini mixture. Dollop with ricotta. Slide pizza onto preheated pizza stone. Bake at 500° for 11 minutes or until crust is golden. Sprinkle with basil.

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