Pizza For Dinner!

I’m constantly looking for easy, homemade (or mostly homemade), healthy recipes to share with my family.  The key is easy (or fast!) without a million ingredients.  Several months ago I found a quick and easy pizza recipe, which has been modified a few times over for simplicity.  We modified it a bit more yesterday for the sake of time, and not being able to find the frozen french loaf (which is the previous type of “bread” we used).

From start to finish it took about 35 minutes -I call that fast and easy, especially on a “school” night!  Here’s how we made ours, and feel free to substitute your favorite ingredients.  {I am no culinary genius…and I have no doubt that many of you out there have made a pizza just as good or better than this!}

1. Start with a ready-made pizza dough – again, we found ours where the oven-ready, “fresh” pizzas were located, near the deli section.  Follow the instructions on the bag in which the dough comes {which is as simple as rolling it out on a floured surface}.

2.  Pizza/tomato sauce isn’t my friend these days in my pregnancy, so we went with a simple, light EVOO and did an even, thin layer over the majority of the dough and then added in some fresh tomato slices.

3. Next, I added a layer of Mozzarella cheese followed by some green pepper that my hubs had chopped up for us.

4. Lastly, we added some shredded chicken from a rotisserie chicken we purchased (I buy at least one a week to make meal prep time faster!) along with some pepperoni and then another layer of Mozzarella cheese.  Because you can never have too much cheesssseeee!!  Oh, and one clove of garlic, minced and sprinkled over.

5. 20 minutes of cook time (literally to the dot), and Voila!  Perfection!!

 I cut up this beauty and we savored it while we watched the USA v Portugal soccer match, which I am happy to say that I enjoyed thoroughly!  Remember my soccer confession from last week?  I’ve come a long way since then..I even know some of the correct terminology now…thanks to my hubs!