Pizza is by far one of my favorite foods. It’s tasty, filling, and versatile. You can top it with any combination of veggies (or fruits!) you can think of. Pizza comes in all shapes and sizes. Thin crust, thick crust, deep dish, white pizza, red sauce, meat, veggie — whatever you want! Pizza is also conveniently extremely kid-friendly.
I’ll let you in on a little secret — we’ve been making a lot of homemade pizzas lately. Our kids love them. They especially enjoy picking out the toppings and helping put it in the oven to bake.
Fun fact about me: My husband is a master pizza-maker. We met at a pizza place, actually — where we both worked. I was the phone girl and he was the pizza guy. Some nights he’d stay in the shop and toss the pizzas by hand and other times he was a delivery driver.
As such, we love making pizzas as a family. Today I’m sharing one of the better pizzas we’ve made as of late. It’s amazing. Hand tossed veggie pizza is delicious in a restaurant and even better when made at home.
Hand-Tossed Veggie Pizza
Ingredients
- 16 oz dough ball
- sliced black olives (small can)
- 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced
- 1/4 red onion, thin sliced
- 4 oz sliced mushrooms
- 1/2 – 1 C pizza sauce
- 1 – 2 C mozzarella cheese
Directions
Allow dough ball to thaw, if frozen.
Preheat the oven to 425˚F.
Dust a cutting board lightly with flour. Remove from packaging and gently stretch the dough so it’s in a small disc, kneading in a evenly in a clockwise direction. If you feel confident tossing the dough, gently toss and spin the dough, catching with closed fists and tossing again until stretched to the desired size and shape. If you don’t feel confident tossing the dough, continuing gently stretching the dough to fit a pizza pan or stone.
Once the dough is on the pan or stone, spread the pizza sauce almost to the outer edges. You can use as much or as little sauce as you’d like. We use about a cup. Once the sauce is on, begin layering your toppings — we used red bell pepper, red onion, mushrooms, and black olives for this one. Remember to layer evenly. After you placed all your toppings, cover the pizza with cheese. Again, you can use as much or as little cheese as you’d like but what may look like a lot of cheese won’t be as much as you think once it’s baked and melted. It’s a bit of trial and error but more often than not, you should use more cheese than you think you should for an even covering.
Bake for 15 minutes or until cheese is brown and bubbly.
Serve and enjoy!
Don’t forget to link up with Annmarie and me for our fabulous Meatless Monday linkup!
xo
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Do you make pizza at home?
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This post is also linked up with Confessions of a Mother Runner and A Whisk and Two Wands for their Meatless Monday link up!
15 Comments
Love that it’s hand tossed! Looks delicious!
Thanks, mama! 🙂
I love making my own pizza and it’s you are right it’s easy to make it healthy by adding lots of veggies and controlling the cheese. Now I am hungry 🙂 Thanks for linking up for meatless Monday!
Lol! Me too. 🙂 #looooovepizza
Pizza is like the easiest thing ever. And I will still go and get someone else to make it, lol. SO LAZY
Ditto, girl. Hahah
This pizza looks amazing! Thanks for hosting this great link up once again!
Thank you! It sure was tasty.
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This looks so good! I bet it tastes just as wonderful. 🙂
Thanks! Noms!!
I have been craving pizza lately and my husband and family are loving it since I usually like to keep it to once a week or less. Lately it’s been a couple times a week or at least weekly! My husband is the dough maker and I love a good veggie pizza! Sounds like a delicious combo, just swap the black olives for green on mine please! 😉
We love green olives! That’s usually one of our go-to toppings!! Yummmmmm.
I’ve never tried tossing the dough before–to be honest, it kinda terrifies me, haha. I feel like with my clumsiness, I’m liable to make that dough fly across the room. ._. This pizza looks amazing! <3
It does take a certain finesse… haha!