Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Pizza the OMG way !!

When I first started this blog I mentioned that I would be road testing new recipes that I had never cooked before. These recipes would be coming from my ever expanding collection of cookbooks.



Friends of ours have a copy of Jane Kennedy’ s OMG I can eat that? Indulgent food minus the boombah. .   I was lucky enough to come across a copy for $10.  The book focuses on everyday meals with healthier options instead of the usual potato mash, pastry etc.   Our friends had made her 4 hour slow – cooked garlicky lamb served with her roasted carrots with feta and said it was delicious.

So far we have cooked 3 recipes from it,  $10 well spent in my opinion, as the all 3 have been very nice.

Which brings me to this months recipe.  Pizza made from grated Zucchini as the base.  That’s right, no wheat in sight.



The base is very easy to prepare, one large grated zucchini (peeled) 100g of grated mozzarella cheese and one egg.    Mixed together and pour onto a tray lined with baking paper.  Cook in a 190o Oven for 15 minutes or until browned. 



  That’s it.


Once the base is cooked turn up the oven to 220o.  Then you are free to cover the base with whatever you like and pop it back in the oven until the cheese is bubbling and brown.


Each pizza serves 2  (we made 2 pizzas) happily fed the 3 of us.   Spreading passata on the base we topped one pizza with fresh pineapple, prosciutto and rocket (once cooked).  The second with pepperoni, olives, char grilled capsicum and both pizzas finished off with mozzarella cheese.


This healthy take on the traditional is not going to replace the flour made pizza bases that we love, but is was nice for a change. 

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