Recipe: Vegetarian Pesto Pizza
Check out this healthy and delicious pizza from IIN graduate Lauren Chambers. If you're hungry for more, check out IIN's Recipe Blog Roundup!
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Crust Ingredients:
- 2 cups tapioca flour (or sub 2 ? cups Bob�s Red Mill Paleo Baking Mix)
- ? cup coconut flour
- � cup olive oil
- 1 egg
- � � 1 cup water
Pumpkin-Seed Pesto Ingredients:
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- 2 cups basil
- � cup extra virgin olive oil
- � cup arugula
- � cup sprouted pumpkin seeds
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tsp sea salt
- cracked black pepper
Topping Ingredients:
- 2 cups butternut squash, peeled and chopped
- � sweet onion, thinly sliced
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1-2 cups fresh spinach or arugula
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Almond Milk Ricotta Cheese
- � cup pomegranate seeds
- Extras � Sea Salt, Chile Flakes, Black Pepper, olive oil + more garlic
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees and roast chopped butternut squash and sliced onion for 30 minutes with some olive oil, garlic, sea salt, and pepper, flipping halfway through.
- While veggies are roasting get your crust ready by first lining two large baking pans or cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a bowl mix together the crust ingredients, adding enough water until the consistency is thick and doughy
- Sprinkle additional coconut flour on a new piece of parchment paper, then spread out half of the dough mixture. Place another sheet of parchment on top and roll out until very thin with a rolling pin (or wine bottle, which is fo reals what we do ;)). Repeat with the other half of the dough. It should make two large pizza crusts.
- Place on the parchment lined pan and bake at 450 for 15 minutes (you can keep the veggies in at this heat for a bit if they�re still roasting).
- Drink some of the wine you used as your rolling pin or mocktail of choice.
- While crust is baking add all of your pesto ingredients into a food processor or high speed blender and mix, then set aside.
- When crust is done, remove from oven and immediately turn oven down to 400 degrees.
- Top crusts with olive oil, garlic, pesto sauce, roasted butternut squash, caramelized onion and cheese. Leave out the pomegranate seeds and arugula + lemon until the end, you don�t want it to cook. Put pizzas back in oven and cook at 400 for about 30 minutes or until lightly brown and caramelized.
- Drink more wine or mocktail. Toss arugula lightly in olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Top on pizza with pomegranate seeds when done cooking.
Lauren Chambers is a nutrition and healthy lifestyle coach on a mission to inspire others to eat well, feel well and live well. After struggling with health issues, Lauren developed a passion and deep curiosity for health and wellness. Once she experienced the immense benefits of shifting her health and happiness, her life�s purpose transformed. She knew she wanted to help others feel this too and became a holistic Health Coach. She�s the creator and food and culinary nutrition blogger for SofreshNsogreen.com. Find her on Instagram @sofreshnsogreeeeen.
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Published: June 8, 2024
Updated: October 24, 2024