Grilled mushroom and pepper pizzas
11
Points®
Total time: 55 min • Prep: 30 min • Cook: 25 min • Serves: 8 • Difficulty: Easy
Enjoy the smoky flavor of a grilled pizza loaded with mushrooms, red bell pepper and mozzarella cheese. You can make an easy homemade pizza dough. Or, if you prefer, swap in 20-oz store bought pizza dough and divide it into 8 (2½-oz) pieces. You can also grill the mushrooms and the bell pepper before adding them to the pizza. Cremini mushrooms are sometimes sold as baby bella mushrooms. While it's younger than a portobello mushroom, it's slightly older than the white button mushroom. Their texture is a bit firmer than the white button mushrooms. Serve this pizza with a tossed salad or some fruit.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
4 spray(s)
All-purpose flour
1 Tbsp
Frozen pizza crust dough
20 oz
Olive oil
2 tsp
Store-bought pizza sauce
1½ cup(s)
Shredded part skim mozzarella cheese
2 cup(s)
Cremini mushroom
12 medium
Sweet mini peppers
8 item(s)
Fresh basil
1 cup(s)
Crushed red pepper flakes
1 pinch(es)
Instructions
1
Off heat, coat grill rack with nonstick spray. Turn on 1 burner of gas grill and preheat to high, or prepare fire in charcoal grill for two-zone cooking.
2
On lightly floured work surface, roll out each piece of dough to 6- to 7-inch round. Working with 2 crusts at a time, brush 1 side of each lightly with 1⁄4 tsp oil and arrange on hotter side of grill. Close lid and cook, checking occasionally to make sure bottoms are not burning and large bubbles are not popping, until crusts are charred and marked from grill, 2 to 3 minutes. Turn crusts over and arrange on cooler side of grill.
3
Quickly spread crusts on grill with 3 tbsp pizza sauce and sprinkle each with 1⁄4 cup cheese. Top each with a few mushroom slices and a few bell pepper slices. Slide pizzas back to hotter side of grill and close lid. Cook until crusts are charred and marked from grill, 2 to 3 minutes more. (If bottoms start to burn before cheese melts, move pizzas back to cooler side of grill.) Repeat with remaining crusts, oil, pizza sauce, cheese, mushrooms, and bell peppers. Sprinkle pizzas with basil and crushed red pepper just before serving.
4
Serving size: 1 pizza
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