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These vegetarian pizza toppings are the most fulfilling pizzas you have ever had. All the veggies are fresh and in season, and each vegetable is attentively paired with the most suitable cheese and seasoning. The combination of flavors and textures is carefully chosen to make these veggie pizzas so exceptional, no one will miss the meat.
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- Each vegetable combined with a cheese
- Red pizza vs white pizza
- Best pizza dough for veggie toppings
- Pizza Margherita
- Pizza with Mushrooms and Basil
- Pizza alla Norma: fried eggplants and salted ricotta
- Pizza with zucchini and smoked scamorza
- White Pizza with Fresh Cherry Tomatoes and BuffaloMozzarella or Burrata
- White Pizza with roasted peppers and parmesan flakes
- White pizza with red chicory radicchio and gorgonzola cheese
- White pizza with zucchini flowers and ricotta cheese
- White Pizza with Pesto and Stracchino
- Fresh Artichoke Pizza with sundried tomatoes and Scamorza
- More veggie pizza toppings
- FAQ
- More types of pizza we eat in Italy
- 📋Vegetarian Pizza Toppings
Pizza originated in Italy as a celebration of vegetables and cheese. That is why Italians don't use too much meat on pizza.
Every Italian pizza feature one or more seasonal vegetables, and never in excess to make sure flavors don't get lost and pizza don't get soggy.
Each vegetable is treated with respect and admiration, its flavor is enhanced by the right combination of cheese and seasoning and only when appropriate, some meat is added as ham, sausage or other cured meat.
You will find these vegetarian pizza recipes everywhere in Italy from pizzeria restaurants to takeaway pizza al taglio or rosticceria.
This selection of vegetarianpizzas are the perfect family dinners as they are healthy, deliciously filling but light enough to ensure a peaceful bedtime with no bloated belly.
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Each vegetable combined with a cheese
I will start with a few examples and will add more once the vegetables are in season or if I came across a cheese that is worth melting on pizza.
These are classic Italian combinations of cheeses with vegetables, they are used in pizza as well as in pasta or risotto. They will combine well with each other in terms of flavor and texture.
You can also use these combinations to stuffed dinner bread rolls.
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Red pizza vs white pizza
You will find 2 types of veggie pizza:
- Pizza rossa: red pizza with tomato sauce
- Pizza bianca: white pizza without tomato sauce.
Some vegetables and cheeses are better without tomato sauce as it tends to overpower some delicate flavors.
So here is the list of vegetarianpizza toppings:
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Best pizza dough for veggie toppings
The classic Italian pizza dough is the perfect base for a vegetarian pizza. It is thin, crunchy and its mild delicate flavor doesn't take over.
To make pizza I use the dough from this articleHow to Make Pizza Dough without a Bread Machine. If you have a bread machine, it is even simpler. Pour the ingredients into the basket and the bread machine will do the rest.
If you want to make a pizza like an Italian, you should follow those steps:
- Make the pizza dough the day before
- Let it rest in the fridge overnight
- When you are ready to make the pizza, take it out of the fridge at least 1 hour before
- For each 1 lb - 500 g of pizza dough makes 3 balls, to have a nice thin crust.
- Cover with a wet towel and let it rest for 30 minutes
- Put the pizza stone into the oven and turn the oven on to reach 430 F - 220 C
- Once the oven and the pizza stone are hot, you can proceed.
- Every time you make a pizza the pizza stone should be very hot, therefore make sure all the ingredients for the toppings are ready.
If you have never made pizza before, read the article: Italian Pizza Dough Recipe And How To Cook It for more information.
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Pizza Margherita
This is THE Italian pizza served in every restaurant and pizzerie:
- Simple tomato sauce (no marinara sauce or Italian seasoning, that does not exist in Italy),
- Mozzarella for pizza (the regular fresh mozzarella would be too watery, so if you use that, you need to make sure the water is drained)
- Fresh basil leaves
- Oregano (not always)
- Extra virgin olive oil is added raw, at the end when the pizza is cooked
You can find the detailed recipe in the article: Italian Pizza Dough Recipe And How To Cook It
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Pizza with Mushrooms and Basil
I make this pizza often as it is easy to make and the ingredients are easy to find.It is a regular pizza Margheritain which I add fresh portobello mushrooms.
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As you can see I don't add too many mushrooms as they tend to release water when cooking and I don't like a soggy pizza.I use regular mozzarella cheese as its sweet flavour well combines with the earthy mushrooms.
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- Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
- Pour 2 tablespoon of tomato sauce, add a pinch of salt, and spread the sauce over the dough with the back of the spoon
- Place uniformly over the dough the mozzarella cut in cubes
- Add 3 chopped basil leaves and 2 sliced fresh mushrooms
- Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
- Once ready, place it on a cutting board and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil before serving it
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Pizza alla Norma: fried eggplants and salted ricotta
If I go out for Pizza I always order Pizza alla Norma, fried or grilled eggplants with salted ricotta.
It is a typical combination used in Sicily around Catania, they add eggplants everywhere and everything becomes "Norma": pasta, arancini, pizza.
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On the blog, I have the recipe for a regular Pasta alla Norma and Pasta with swordfish ragu and fried eggplants also originally from Catania.
Here I use fried eggplants, but if you want to keep it healthier you can use grilled eggplants.
For more appetizers with eggplants, check out the story: 15 Authentic Italian Eggplant Recipes
Salted ricotta is not the usual ricotta, the salt is used to preserve it for longer, therefore the ricotta salata is hard and can be grated.
If you cannot find salted ricotta you can substitute with Pecorino or Parmesan.
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- Peel and cut the eggplants into slices
- Fry them in abundant hot olive oil
- Once they are ready place them over a paper to absorb as much oil as possible
- Season them with salt
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- Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
- Pour 2 tablespoon of tomato sauce, add a pinch of salt, and spread the sauce over the dough with the back of the spoon
- Place over the dough uniformly the mozzarella cut in cubes
- Add a few slices of fried eggplants
- Grate some salted ricotta (or parmesan) on top and some basil leaves
- Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
- Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve
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Pizza with zucchini and smoked scamorza
This pizza is very similar to the previous one, instead of eggplants we have fried or grilled zucchini.
To complement the flavor of the zucchini I added a smoked scamorza.
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I always recommend buying thin zucchini as the large ones have too many seeds. Although as you need to cut them lengthwise, don't buy the Albenga trombetta zucchini or the very very small ones.
If you prefer a lighter version of this pizza you can simply grill the zucchini.
If you cannot find smoked scamorza, you can use another strong cheese, but look for a cheese made with spun-paste like the mozzarella. The process is called "filatura"
You can read more about the type of cheese in the article: Italian Pizza Dough Recipe And How To Cook It, section Using the right ingredients
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Making the pizza with fried zucchini
- Cut the zucchini in long slices, lengthwise
- Fry in abundant hot olive oil
- Once ready, lay them on a paper to absorb all the excess oil
- Season with salt
- Cut the smoked scamorza into slices
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- Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
- Pour 2 tablespoon spoons of tomato sauce, add a pinch of salt, and spread the sauce over the dough with the back of the spoon
- Place uniformly the slices of scamorza
- Lay the zucchini slices over the scamorza
- Add some basil leaves
- Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
- Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve
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White Pizza with Fresh Cherry Tomatoes and BuffaloMozzarella or Burrata
This is also a very simple pizza with fresh tomatoes instead of tomatoes sauce.
Pizzas without tomatoes sauce are called White pizza in Italian Pizza Bianca and it is usually made with fresh vegetables whose taste can be overpowered by a tomato sauce.
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You can make this pizza with cherry tomatoes, but use enough so that the pizza will be nicely moist.
As cheese you can use either buffalo mozzarella, regular fresh mozzarella or burrata.
Add some fresh extra viring olive oil at the end and it becomes a melted Caprese.
Do not even think of adding Balsamic Vinegar, I am not sure who had the idea of adding Balsamic over the Caprese.
Definitelyno one in Capri!
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- Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
- Place uniformly a few slices of mozzarella or burrata
- Spread the cherry tomatoes cut in half around the mozzarella slices
- Add 3 chopped basil leaves
- Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
- Once ready, place it on a cutting board and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil before serving it
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White Pizza with roasted peppers and parmesan flakes
My uncle Mario always said: "God made roasted peppers and parmesan to be together" and I never dear to challenge that.
It is the best combination ever!
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The peppers are roasted in the hot oven to remove the skin. I usually do 5 at once then I season them with extra virgin olive oil and garlic and keep them in the fridge to serve as a side or simply with cheese.
The parmesan is added after in this pizza but if you prefer you can add it before.
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- Place the peppers in a very hot oven or under the grill
- Once the skin on the top of the peppers is burned, turn them around and put them back in the oven
- Do that until all sides of the peppers are burned
- Place the hot peppers in a paper bag and keep them closed until they cool down. Their steam will help to separate the skin from the flesh
- Once cold you can easily remove the skin from the peppers
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- Remove the seeds and place the slices of the peppers in a bowl
- Season with salt, extra virgin olive oil, and basil
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- Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
- Place uniformly the mozzarella cut in cubes
- Lay the roasted pepper stripes across the pizza
- Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
- Once ready, place it on a cutting board and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil
- Top with parmesan flakes, few basil leaves, and serve it
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White pizza with red chicory radicchio and gorgonzola cheese
The combination of red chicory and gorgonzola is often used in Italy, not only they make pizza but also risotto, gnocchi or even served raw as antipasto.
You definitely do not want tomato sauce in this pizza as the flavor or the two ingredients combined is just perfect as it is.
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Choose some small and tender red chicory or cut the chicory in thinner slices so it can be easy to bite if you are eating the pizza by hands.
As it takes longer for the chicory to cook, it is best to roast it in the oven for few minutes before putting it on the pizza. Usually 15 to 20 minutes should be enough.
Like for the peppers, you can make a larger amount and keep the rest in the fridge and serve it as a side dish for some other meals.
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- Cut the red chicory in slices, place it on a baking tin over parchment paper
- Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt
- Bake in a hot oven 350 F - 180 C for 15 to 20 minutes
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- Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
- Place uniformly the mozzarella cut in cubes
- Lay the roasted red chicory slices across the pizza
- Spread some gorgonzola over the chicory
- Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
- Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve it
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White pizza with zucchini flowers and ricotta cheese
Zucchini flowers and ricotta cheese are just the perfect combination of light sweet flavours.
A delicate pizza to enjoy during the summer when the zucchini flowers are blossoming.
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The zucchini flowers cook very quickly so you don't need to precook them. You can add them raw over the pizza before you put the pizza in the oven.
However, the ricotta is not a fat cheese, I therefore recommend to drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the pizza so the flowers don't burn in the hot oven, but gently fry.
You don't need a lot of flowers per pizza so if you have any leftover you can either make zucchini flowers frittes or use them with the ricotta as a pasta sauce.
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- Cut the flower sepals (the small green mini leaves that covers the base of the petals)
- Open the flower to make sure there are no insects inside
- Wash the flowers with running water
- Place them upside down in a colander to drain out any water from inside the flower
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- Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
- Place uniformly the mozzarella cut in cubes
- Lay the zucchini flowers cut in half
- Add the ricotta cheese and drizzle with some extra virgin olive oil
- Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
- Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve
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White Pizza with Pesto and Stracchino
This Pizza is another favourite.Every time I go to Italy I stock up on Stracchino and fresh basilto make the pesto.
You can read more about it in the article:Traditional Italian White Pizza With Pesto
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Fresh Artichoke Pizza with sundried tomatoes and Scamorza
I don't use canned artichokes, pizza is much better made with fresh vegetables.
Canned artichokes tends to have an acidic taste as they are preserved in vinegar to prevent botulism.
Frozen artichokes release too much water.
You can find all the instructions on how to clean and cook a fresh artichoke in the post:Fresh Artichoke Pizza with sundried tomatoes and Scamorza
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More veggie pizza toppings
These recipes are just few ideas, but there are many more combinations that would work well.
- Once the pizza is cooked, add some fresh rocket and cherry tomatoes, they work well with many pizzas, often sprinkled with some Grana cheese flakes.
- Broccoli rabe and sausage is a classic pizza in Naples: salsiccie e friarielli. For a vegetarian version you can replace the sausage with a strong cheese like provolone
- Pissaladiere: a pizza typical from Nice in the South of France made mainly with onion, no cheese.
- Pizza with potatoes: is a classic in Rome. The potatoes are cut very thin to make sure they cook thoroughly.
- Baby chard: never in excess as they tend to release a lot of water when cooking
- Asparagus: they are perfect with Parmesan cheese
Vegetables I would never put on pizza are: kale, corn, cabbage, carrots, parsnip, Brussels sprout, fennel, green beans, cauliflower.
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FAQ
Should veggies be cooked before putting on pizza?
If you want to put raw vegetables on your pizza and cook them together you need to watch out for the following problems. First, some vegetables like mushrooms and zucchini release water when cooking, so if you put them raw on your pizza they will make your pizza soggy. You can add them raw but do not add too many. Second, Pizza is cooked at high temperature for only 10 minutes. That is not enough time for some vegetables to cook properly, like broccoli, squash or potatoes. If you want to add them raw, cut them very finely.
How do you keep veggie pizza from getting soggy?
To prevent your pizza from getting soggy from the vegetables you can do the following: 1. Do not put too many veggies. 2. Put the veggies over the cheese. 3. Precook the veggies before you place them on top of the pizza. 4. Cook the pizza in a very hot oven on a hot pizza stone
What is the most common vegetable on pizza?
Besides tomato sauce, the most common vegetables to put on pizza are: fresh tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, zucchini flowers, eggplants, mushrooms, artichokes, onion, broccoli rabe, potatoes and radicchio. Rocket salad is often added raw at the end.
Why no pineapple on pizza?
Pizza is a fun dish to write about, originated from Naples, it has traveled the world with the Italian emigrants.
Each country has created its own version and chefs around the world have experimentednew toppings using local flavour and preferences.There are so many pizza's versions around the world, some completely different from the one originated in Naples.
Of course, I will always defend the original Italian pizza and if any of you eat pizza with pineapple please let me know........
.....and I will pray for your soul!
What meats do Italians put on pizza?
Pizza originated in Italy as a celebration of vegetables and cheese. That is why Italians don't use much meat on pizza. If we do add meat, it is usually ham, prosciutto or sausage. You would rarely find beef and absolutely NEVER CHICKEN. No, Italian don't put the chicken on pizza nor in pasta sauce, it is one of our unspoken rules!
Pizza has now become a source of lively discussions on social media: what should and shouldn't be a pizza topping.But while very few people take the debate seriously, most of the time those discussions are exchanges of some funny jokes and images.
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More types of pizza we eat in Italy
And don't forget to check also these other classic Italian Pizza:
- Fried Pizza and panzerotti
- Pizzette Mini Pizza Bites
- Pissaladiere Nicoise
- Focaccia Pizza
- Pizza with Nutella
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📋Vegetarian Pizza Toppings
I created this list of pizza toppings to celebrate Mediterranean vegetables, using for each pizza a typical regional cheese to enhances each produce and its flavour.
Prep Time 30 minutes minutes
Cook Time 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes
resting time 1 day day
⏲️Total Time 1 day day 1 hour hour 40 minutes minutes
Servings: 7 pizzas
Author: Laura Tobin
Ingredients
For the pizza dough
- 6 cup Caputo flour 00 if you can find Manitoba, Type 55, All purpose, Plain, Type 0
- 2 cup fresh water
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon caster sugar to activate the yeast
- 2 package yeast 2 tsp
Pizza with Mushroom
- 1 cup Italian mozzarella
- 2 tablespoon homemade tomato sauce
- 3 mushrooms you can add more if you like
- 3 leaves fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- salt
Pizza alla Norma with Fried or Grilled Eggplants
- 1 Eggplants fried or grilled
- 3 leaves fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoon homemade tomato sauce
- 1 cup Italian mozzarella
- ¼ cup salted ricotta
- 5 tablespoon olive oil to fry the eggplants
- salt
Pizza With Zucchini And Smoked Scamorza
- 3 zucchini
- 2 tablespoon homemade tomato sauce
- 1 smoked scamorza
- 3 fresh basil leaves
- 5 tablespoon olive oil to fry the zucchini
- salt
Pizza with Fresh Cherry Tomatoes
- 2 fresh cherry tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
- 3 leaves fresh basil leaves
- 1 cup buffalo's milk Mozzarella or burrata
- salt
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Pizza with roasted peppers and parmesan
- 1 pepper
- 1 cup Italian mozzarella
- ¼ cup shredded parmesan
- 3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- salt
- 1 chopped basil leaves
Pizza with Red Chicory and Gorgonzola
- 2 red chicory
- 1 cup Italian mozzarella
- ¼ cup gorgonzola
- 2 tablespoon olive oil to roast the red chicory
- salt
Pizza Zucchini Flowers And Ricotta
- 4 zucchini flowers
- 1 cup Italian mozzarella
- 4 tablespoon ricotta
- 3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- salt
Equipment
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Instructions
Make the pizza dough
Pour the ingredients into the machine and set the program for fresh dough, number 13 on the Kenwood. NB: when using the bread machine the ingredients should be placed in the exact order as listed above, liquids first.
6 cup Caputo flour 00, 2 cup fresh water, 2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon caster sugar, 2 package yeast
For best result, let the dough rest in the fridge overnight, well floured and wrapped in a plastic bag, otherwise, it will crawl all over the fridge.
Prepare the pizza
Once the dough has rested in the fridge overnight, cut it into 7 equal sizes and lay them down on a well-floured baking sheet.
Let them rest covered for 30 minutes
Roll a dough ball flat
Let it rest about 10 minutes
In the meantime, put the pizza stone in the cold oven and set the oven at 430 F - 220 C.
Once the oven reaches the temperature of 430 F - 220C, take the pizza stone out of the oven and lay the dough on top.
Top it with the topping of your choice
Cook it in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Pizza with Mushroom
Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
Pour 2 tablespoon of tomato sauce, add a pinch of salt, and spread the sauce over the dough with the back of the spoon
2 tablespoon homemade tomato sauce
Place uniformly over the dough the mozzarella cut in cubes
1 cup Italian mozzarella, salt
Add 3 chopped basil leaves and 2 sliced fresh mushrooms
3 mushrooms, 3 leaves fresh basil leaves
Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Once ready, place it on a cutting board and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil before serving it
2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Pizza alla Norma: fried eggplants and salted ricotta
Peel and cut the eggplants into slices
1 Eggplants
Fry them in abundant hot olive oil
5 tablespoon olive oil
Once they are ready place them over a paper to absorb as much oil as possible
Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
Pour 2 tablespoon of tomato sauce, add a pinch of salt, and spread the sauce over the dough with the back of the spoon
2 tablespoon homemade tomato sauce, salt
Place over the dough uniformly the mozzarella cut in cubes
1 cup Italian mozzarella
Add a few slices of fried eggplants
Grate some salted ricotta (or parmesan) on top and some basil leaves
¼ cup salted ricotta, 3 leaves fresh basil leaves
Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve
Pizza with zucchini and smoked scamorza
Cut the zucchini in long slices, lengthwise
3 zucchini
Fry in abundant hot olive oil
5 tablespoon olive oil
Once ready, lay them on a paper to absorb all the excess oil and season with salt
Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
Pour 2 tablespoon spoons of tomato sauce, add a pinch of salt, and spread the sauce over the dough with the back of the spoon
2 tablespoon homemade tomato sauce
Cut the smoked scamorza into slices and place them uniformly over the pizza
1 smoked scamorza
Lay the zucchini slices over the scamorza
Add some basil leaves
3 fresh basil leaves
Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve
White Pizza with Fresh Cherry Tomatoes and BuffaloMozzarella or Burrata
Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
Place uniformly a few slices of mozzarella or burrata
1 cup buffalo's milk Mozzarella
Spread the cherry tomatoes cut in half around the mozzarella slices
2 fresh cherry tomatoes
Add 3 chopped basil leaves
3 leaves fresh basil leaves
Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Once ready, place it on a cutting board and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil before serving it
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
White Pizza with roasted peppers and parmesan flakes
Place the peppers in a very hot oven or under the grill
1 pepper
Once the skin on the top of the peppers is burned, turn them around and put them back in the oven
Do that until all sides of the peppers are burned
Place the hot peppers in a paper bag and keep them closed until they cool down. Their steam will help to separate the skin from the flesh
Once cold you can easily remove the skin from the peppers
Remove the seeds and place the slices of the peppers in a bowl
Season with salt, extra virgin olive oil, and basil
salt, 1 chopped basil leaves, 3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
Place uniformly the mozzarella cut into cubes
1 cup Italian mozzarella
Lay the roasted pepper stripes across the pizza
Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Once ready, place it on a cutting board and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil from the peppers
Top with parmesan flakes, few basil leaves, and serve it
¼ cup shredded parmesan
White pizza with red chicory radicchio and gorgonzola cheese
Cut the red chicory in slices, place it on a baking tin over parchment paper
2 red chicory
Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt
2 tablespoon olive oil, salt
Bake in a hot oven 350 F - 180 C for 15 to 20 minutes
Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
Place uniformly the mozzarella cut in cubes
1 cup Italian mozzarella
Lay the roasted red chicory slices across the pizza
Spread some gorgonzola over the chicory
¼ cup gorgonzola
Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve it
White pizza with zucchini flowers and ricotta cheese
Cut the flower sepals (the small green mini leaves that covers the base of the petals)
4 zucchini flowers
Open the flower to make sure there are no insects inside
Wash the flowers with running water and place them upside down in a colander to drain out any water from inside the flower
Lay the pizza dough over the hot pizza stone
Place uniformly the mozzarella cut in cubes
1 cup Italian mozzarella
Lay the zucchini flowers cut in half and season with salt
salt
Add the ricotta cheese and drizzle with some extra virgin olive oil
4 tablespoon ricotta, 3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Cook in the hot oven for 10 minutes
Once ready, place it on a cutting board and serve
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Notes
- make sure the pizza dough has rested in the fridge overnight
- the oven and the pizza stone has to be extremely hot before you prepare the pizza
- pizza stone should always be kept hot inside the oven
- once you put the topping on the pizza put in the oven immediately
- I sometimes add some extra virgin olive oil and sometimes I don't. It is up to you, if the cheese is already rich or the vegetables have been fried, I usually do not add it
Nutrition
Calories: 1146kcal | Carbohydrates: 92g | Protein: 42g | Fat: 69g | Saturated Fat: 21g | Cholesterol: 91mg | Sodium: 1485mg | Potassium: 950mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 1317IU | Vitamin C: 39mg | Calcium: 637mg | Iron: 3mg
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Greetings, pizza enthusiasts! As someone deeply immersed in the world of Italian cuisine and a passionate advocate for the art of pizza-making, I'm thrilled to dive into the delectable realm of vegetarian pizza toppings. My culinary journey has allowed me to explore and savor the authentic flavors of Italy, and I'm excited to share my expertise on crafting the most satisfying and exceptional veggie pizzas.
The heart of Italian pizza lies in its celebration of vegetables and cheese, a tradition upheld for centuries. Italians understand the delicate balance required to create a pizza that is not only flavorful but also avoids becoming soggy. Seasonal vegetables are treated with the utmost respect, each paired thoughtfully with suitable cheese and seasonings. While some pizzas may include a touch of meat, the focus remains on the rich tapestry of plant-based ingredients.
Let's unravel the concepts woven into this tantalizing array of vegetarian pizza toppings:
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Each Vegetable Combined with a Cheese:
- Classic Italian combinations of cheeses with vegetables are employed, ensuring harmonious flavor and texture combinations.
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Red Pizza vs. White Pizza:
- Two main types of veggie pizza are explored: Pizza Rossa (red pizza with tomato sauce) and Pizza Bianca (white pizza without tomato sauce). Each has its ideal vegetables and cheeses, with the absence of tomato sauce allowing delicate flavors to shine.
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Best Pizza Dough for Veggie Toppings:
- A classic Italian pizza dough serves as the perfect foundation—thin, crunchy, and with a mild flavor that complements the toppings. Tips for making and preparing the dough are shared.
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Specific Pizza Recipes:
- Detailed recipes for iconic vegetarian pizzas are presented, including:
- Pizza Margherita
- Pizza with Mushrooms and Basil
- Pizza alla Norma with fried eggplants and salted ricotta
- Pizza with zucchini and smoked scamorza
- White Pizza with Fresh Cherry Tomatoes and Buffalo Mozzarella or Burrata
- White Pizza with roasted peppers and parmesan flakes
- White pizza with red chicory radicchio and gorgonzola cheese
- White pizza with zucchini flowers and ricotta cheese
- White Pizza with Pesto and Stracchino
- Fresh Artichoke Pizza with sundried tomatoes and Scamorza
- Detailed recipes for iconic vegetarian pizzas are presented, including:
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Additional Veggie Pizza Toppings:
- Further ideas for veggie pizza toppings are provided, expanding the possibilities for creative and delicious combinations.
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FAQs About Veggie Pizzas:
- Common questions related to preparing and enjoying vegetarian pizzas are addressed, covering topics such as precooking veggies, preventing sogginess, and the most common vegetables on pizza.
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Global Pizza Variations:
- Acknowledgment is made of the diverse interpretations of pizza worldwide, with a humorous note about the contentious topic of pineapple as a pizza topping.
As a seasoned explorer of Italian culinary traditions, I encourage you to embark on your own pizza-making adventure. Whether you opt for a classic Margherita or venture into more innovative combinations, may your veggie pizzas be a celebration of flavors, textures, and the joy of savoring the simple pleasures of Italian cuisine. Buon appetito!