Pita Pizzas!

pita pizzas!

First off, let me mention that while looking for some tips on roasting peppers, given that I had never done it before, I came across the awesome Vegan Dad blog with tonnes of great recipe ideas. By the way, if you want a truly vegetarian pizza, skip this and instead take a look at his Roasted Red Pepper Pizza recipe - looks delish!


So that brings us to tonight: pita pizzas. Well, again I can't quite say these are vegetarian, but they could easily be. Before I realized that we could roast some peppers to expand on our apparently limited topping options, we decided to pull some of Johnny's coworker's fabulous venison sausage out of the freezer. While they were cooking, I roasted my first peppers - it was fun!

Ingredients:

5 pitas
1 can tomato paste
seasonings for tomato paste (minced garlic, herbs, salt, pepper) basil leaves, chopped
1/2 can of pineapple tidbits, drained
1/2 each: roasted green, red, and yellow pepper1 block mozzarella, grated
1 homemade moose/venison sausage, boiled and fried (you know, if you just happen to have this on hand)
a touch of olive oil
a sprinkle of garlic powder
grated parmesan/asiago (for garnish)

Directions:

Well, it's a pizza. You know what to do.

A few things that Johnny did to make these ones extra special:
- heat up the tomato paste and mix in garlic and other seasonings before spreading it on the pita shells
- put some toppings under the cheese and others on top (the peppers and sausage were on top and I think it was better that way)
- drizzle the edge of the crusts with olive oil and sprinkle with garlic powder before baking
- sprinkle the finished pizzas with grated asiago before eating

The Verdict:

Katie's rating: Yum+
Johnny's rating: Yum+

Easiness: Easy
Speediness: Slowish