Brownies and Zucchini

Ingredients (Serves 2-4)

• Pizza dough – If there is not fresh dough available at your grocery store, I suggest asking your favorite local pizzeria. If all else fails, the Pilsbury Pizza Crust is not too bad either. (we used about 21 oz)
• Sauce – Use whatever sauce you want. My favorite is simple garlic and olive oil. Other popular choices are pizza sauce, pesto, and Alfredo sauce.
• Toppings – You can put ANYTHING on pizza. Be creative! One of my favorites is pear and arugula.
• Note: If are putting meat on your pizza, make sure that it is pre-cooked before putting it on!

Instructions

Step 1: Preheat oven to 425 °

Step 2: Spread out the dough on the pan.

The dough we used is from a local pizzeria named Angelos that sells their dough at our grocery store. We bought a 21 oz bag.

I used a metal circular pizza pan similar to this one. It makes about a 16″ pizza.

Make sure the dough is spread out evenly. Tip: If you let the dough warm up to room temperature it will be easier to stretch out without ripping.

Once you have the dough stretched out, make sure you poke it all over with a fork. This will break any air bubbles.

(Note: This photo is taken before it was poked with a fork)

Step 3: Sauce

Choose whatever sauce you want! Today, we each chose a different sauce. As long as neither of the sauces is too runny, they will stay separated while baking.

My sauce was 2 crushed cloves of garlic mixed with about 2 Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil. Although, I only used about half of it on my half of the pizza.

His sauce was just regular, out of the jar, pizza sauce.

To spread my sauce, I used a pastry brush. You will want to do this with any thinner sauce to make sure you get a nice even coat.

With thicker sauce, like regular pizza sauce, you can use the back of a serving spoon to spread it around. Using the smooth back of a spoon helps you smoothly move the sauce around without gouging the dough.

Step 4: Toppings

Don’t be afraid to get creative!

We used about 10 oz of a mix of shredded cheeses for the whole pizza.

His included a couple of pinches of chili powder and about 1/4 lb of cooked ground beef.

I stuck with just cheese.

Step 5: Bake!

Put in preheated oven for about 14 minutes.

Cooking time will vary depending on the thickness of the crust and the amount of toppings that are on it.

Start checking it at bout 10 minutes, and about every 2 minutes after that.