Pizza is a popular dish around this house. It’s easy, fun, feeds a lot of people and is infinitely customizable.
This weekend I whipped up a butternut squash and onion pizza to take with us on a picnic. That’s right, a picnic. If you like cold pizza, it’s a really good option! Just slice it up, lay it flat in a big ziploc and plop it in the cooler. Or the wicker picnic basket, if that’s how you do things.
This was kind of a “leftover” pizza – I’d made pizza for a dinner party earlier in the week (pizza is very versatile!) and saved a bit of dough in the fridge. You can see the recipe for the dough in an earlier post. The squash was leftover too – I had roasted it a few days before for enchilada making!
So I just stretched out the dough, and as you can see I did not achieve a perfect circle! Then I spooned a little Newman’s Own pasta sauce on top, added some chunks of mozzarella, and then layered on my roasted butternut squash and some raw red onions and just a few yellow pepper pieces. Into the oven, set to 450, for about 10 minutes.
A very quick way to feed 4 people while getting rid of leftovers. I LOVE using leftovers in new ways, but it’s definitely something I struggle with – lots of repeat meals!
Crispy crunchy crust, slightly sweet squash. Delicious onions. Sorry, I could think of any alliterative adjectives for the onions.
Make some dough!
I joined wordpress just to comment on your posts. How about “odoriferous onions!” for alliteration? And that pizza was delightfully delicious.
~paul
Yum! I never thought of squash on a pizza- I’m gonna try it! I’ll use the pizza dough recipe I just got from janaemonir.wordpress.com
It’s like you two teamed up to offer me a fabulous pizza! Thanks!!
I really feel like you can put just about anything on a pizza – if it tastes good off a pizza, it will taste even better on a pizza!
And I just checked out Janae’s dough – I’m going to have to try it!
I have always been terrified of trying squash mostly because my mother, bless her, didn’t make it very appetizing. But this is on my dinner list for the week. It looks amazing!