One of our favorite homemade pizza recipes is loaded with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, capers and pepperoncini and topped with fresh basil.
There's nothing much funner than picking your own toppings and making pizza at home, so knock this recipe out with some of your favorite ingredients. Some of our favorites are feta cheese, goat cheese (chèvre), Parmesan cheese, kalamata olives, artichokes, and arugula.
I'm not much of a baker, but Toby loves to bake. Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a Day has some super simple bread recipes. Although it is not really 5 minutes (it takes me that long to clean up the flour mess), it is relatively simple and you can keep the dough in your refrigerator for a couple weeks - the dough is like wine and gets better with age 🙂 .
We use the same bread dough (albeit with a different cooking method or dusting flour) for homemade pizza and fresh bread.
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Homemade Pepperoncini And Capers Pizza
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One of our favorite homemade pizza recipes is loaded with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, capers and pepperoncini and topped with fresh basil.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 2
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: International
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 1 pre-made pizza dough from the grocery store
- olive oil
- ~½ cup of tomato or pizza sauce
- 8 ounces mozzarella cheese, grated
- 2 tablespoon drained capers
- 3 medium pepperoncini's, sliced - leave out if you are sensitive to spicy foods
- ¼ cup basil, chiffonade - as garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Roll out the pizza on lightly floured surface. Transfer to pizza stone or parchment lined baking sheet. Brush the pizza dough lightly with olive oil. Bake around 4-5 minutes or until beginning to crisp but not brown.
- Remove from oven and add a light layer of tomato sauce, mozzarella, capers, and pepperoncini.
- Return to oven and cook an additional 6-8 minutes or until cooked through and cheese is melted.
- Put on the broiler for 1-2 minutes if the cheese has not browned yet. Take it out, let it cool at least 5 minutes (I know it's hard to wait for fresh pizza but the roof of your mouth is important!) Happy pizza eating! Beckie
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