Veggie Pizza

Main Dish

Ingredients

1 each Portion of pizza dough (see recipe)
2 Tbl Marinara (see recipe)
½ 10 oz. box Frozen spinach, thawed and wrung dry
2 slices Fresh buffalo mozzarella, sliced ¼ inch thick
½ cup Shredded mozzarella
¼ cup Cooked porcini mushrooms
2 Tbl Black olives, chopped
Flour as needed
Cornmeal as needed

Instructions

Preheat a pizza stone at 450 in the oven.

On a floured surface, roll out pizza dough very thin and stretch into a rectangle about 6 inches by 8 inches. Transfer to a pizza peel.

Spread the marinara across the dough. Sprinkle the spinach, mushrooms, black olives and shredded mozzarella over the pizza dough. Tear the slices of mozzarella into roughly 1 inch sized pieces and sprinkle over pizza dough.

Sprinkle the preheated pizza stone with cornmeal, slide the pizza off of the peel and bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges of the dough begin to brown and the cheese begins to bubble.

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