Pesto Pizza

One of my favorite dishes is pesto pizza! I just love it! Usually I put more toppings on than this, but I didn't want to go to the store just for those toppings. So this is simply topped with black olives, onion, and mushrooms. The pesto and the crust made it DYNAMITE!!



The crust recipe came from naturallygourmet.com. I love watching her shows right from the website!

Pizza Crust Made in Bread Machine—Makes 2 Crusts (I used it as one crust)

1 1/3 C whole wheat flour
1 1/3 C unbleached flour
2 Tbs vital wheat gluten
1 tsp salt
2 Tbs honey
2 Tbs olive oil
1 C warm water
1 ½ tsp yeast
1 ½ tsp Italian seasoning

Mix dry ingredients. In bread machine put the honey, olive oil, warm water and then add theflour mixture. Even the flour out and make a well in the center and add the yeast. Close thelid and set machine on the dough cycle. This makes 2 crusts. When the cycle is finished take enough dough to make one crust and you can freeze the rest of it.

Spread the dough on the pizza pan, poke the center of the crust with a fork in several places so it won’t puff up and then bake just the crust for 10–15 minutes at 375 degrees until the crust starts to brown. Then take it out of the oven, spread the pesto sauce on the crust. Top with sliced tomatoes, sliced green olives, sliced black olives, sliced artichoke hearts, chopped onions and then you can sprinkle Parmazaan (optional) on top. Return the pizza to the oven for 10–15 minutes or until done.

Yumm-O!