Gluten Free Loaded Veggie Pizza
If you love vegetables, you are going to love this pizza. This is one LOADED veggie pizza. It is packed with flavor and deliciousness. Plus, you'll feel like you are eating something healthy. Which, you are... I mean, it's a whole lot of vegetables. And now you can say to your doctor, "I eat healthy food." And you can thank me for that 😉
Equipment
- Silicone mat
- Rolling Pin
- Pizza pan
- Sharp knife
- Cutting board
Ingredients
- My Fluffy Crunchy Pizza Dough Or Almost Anything Dough
- 1 Green pepper sliced into thin strips and halved
- 1 medium onion julienned
- 1 medium roma tomato or any low liquid tomato sliced in half and then julienned into almost crescent shapes
- 1 to 2 cups sliced mushrooms depending on how much you like mushrooms
- 1/3 cup pitted olives
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil and extra for oiling the rolling pin
- Pizza or pasta sauce I like to use Prego Traditional Italian Sauce for this style pizza
- Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- Sliced Pepperoni
- Salt to taste
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon dry oregano or to taste
- 1 to 2 teaspoons garlic powder or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 F
- Have your pizza dough ready
- This dough makes a 16 – 18 inch round pizza. So take as much dough as you need to roll it to the shape and size of your pan.
- You will need a silicone mat that fits the shape of the pan. Oil the rolling pin. Place the dough onto the silicone mat. Oil your palms, and gently press the dough with your palms to slightly shape it into the shape of the silicone mat. Use the rolling pin to roll the dough into the shape of the mat. Ideally, you’ll want the pizza dough to be about a ¼ inch in thickness. If you like it thicker, you can make it thicker by adding some dough, and if you like it thinner, just remove some dough, or roll it onto a larger silicone mat.
- Place the silicone mat with the rolled dough on it, onto the pizza pan. Place the pan into the oven on the bottom rack. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove the pizza dough from the oven, and set aside to cool slightly.
- Preheat the oven to 450 F
- Spread some pizza, or pasta sauce on top of the pizza dough, and leave some crust peeking through around the edges of the dough. This part is all up to you. If you like a lot of sauce, you can put as much as you like. Just keep in mind that we are using tomatoes on the pizza, and they will render their juices onto the dough. So, if you do not want a soggy pizza, try to not put an excessive amount of sauce.
- Spread some cheese on top of the sauce, and some pepperoni slices
- Spread the onion slices on top, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, and olives.
- Sprinkle some salt all over the pizza, ground black pepper, oregano, and garlic powder. This will help to give great flavor to the vegetables that we are topping the pizza with
- Drizzle the ¼ cup of olive oil all over the pizza, even on the crust.
- Place the pizza back into the oven, on the bottom rack, and bake at 450 F for 12 minutes.
- Remove the pizza from the oven, and allow to cool slightly. You can slice it using a kitchen scissor to prevent from cutting the mat. Serve and enjoy!
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Notes
The fresh vegetables will render their liquids onto the pizza crust. If you do not like a soft crust, and you prefer a crusty pizza dough, you can choose to precook your vegetables by sauteing them in some olive oil, and then spreading them onto the pizza.
If you do choose to saute the vegetables before using them to top the pizza with, do not drizzle the pizza with olive oil. Otherwise, the pizza will end up being too oily.
