Pizza with Homemade Spinach Pesto:

Who doesn’t love Pizza?  I love Spinach and paneer in all forms. So, thought of clubbing my spinach pesto recipe into veggie pizza and prepared this for the kids. Should I say, even I loved it too: D

Usually I make pizza by chopping vegetables into bite size pieces and mixing it with the seasoning that one likes and mixing some chopped cheese too. It will surely give a more tastier pizza than normal veggie one.

In this way, veggies absorb more flavour and because of cheese it gives a little texture too.

pizza 3

Now we will see how I did this nutritious treat –

Ingredients:

For Spinach Pesto:

Spinach – 1 small bunch

Walnuts – 2 table spoons

Garlic salt – 1 tsp

Olive oil – 2 tsps.

Red chilli flakes – 1 tsp

For Pizza:

Pizza base – 2 numbers

Vegetables – 1 bowl (Paneer – 100 gms, yellow and red capsicum – ½ each, Boiled sweet corn -2 tbl sp)

Onion – ½

Hot and sweet tomato ketch up – 2 tbl sp

Mozzarella cheese – 2 tbl sp + 2 table sp (to garnish at the top)

Method:

  • Grind all the items under spinach pesto and make a smooth paste and keep aside. It is for pizza spread.
  • Now chop all the vegetables and onion.

Ribbet collage 1

  • Take one bowl, put all the chopped items, Tomato ketchup and 2 tbl spoons of grated cheese and paneer. Mix everything and keep it ready. This is for the toppings(fillings).
  • Pre-heat oven at 180 C
  • Take a Pizza base on lined baking tray, Spread Spinach pesto over the pizza base.

Ribbet collage 2

  • Top with veggie mixture, which we have mixed and kept ready.
  • Spread this topping equally and grate some more cheese and spread evenly on top.
  • Bake this for 10 to 15 minutes or until cheese melts and becomes bubbly.

pizza 1

  • Remove from the oven and cut and serve.

pizza 2

  • Usually it doesn’t require any seasoning, if you feel like adding some, you can add and enjoy.