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Summer Squash Pizza

Pizza Vegetarian Summer Main Dish Easy Squash
Pizza Vegetarian Summer Main Dish Easy Squash
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Summer Squash Pizza
2 pizzas Easy
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Ingredients (8)

  • 1 (16-ounce) bag store-bought pizza dough
  • 1/4 cup basil pesto
  • Fresh mozzarella, sliced
  • Yellow and green summer squash, thinly sliced
  • Salt
  • Red onion, thinly sliced
  • Olive oil, for brushing the dough
  • 1/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

You hear pizza, you think cheese that flows like roof tar; pepperoni slices cupping in the oven, filling with grease; and a crust so overladen with toppings it droops like sorrow when you try to lift a slice.

This pizza (along with the other five we designed for summer) is different. It is both elegant and summery, full of flavor from good-quality cheeses and produce—so flavorful, in fact, that you won’t even notice it’s vegetarian.

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Instructions

  1. 1Preheat the oven to 450°F.
  2. 2Divide the pizza dough into 2 balls and shape them into 1/4-inch-thick crusts.
  3. 3Spread the pesto on the crusts, add a layer of mozzarella, slices of squash, salt to taste, and onion slices.
  4. 4Bake until the crusts are crispy and golden brown, about 15 minutes.
  5. 5Brush the crusts with olive oil and sprinkle the pizzas with Parmigiano-Reggiano. Serve while hot.
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