Mushroom Pizza with Tomato and Parmesan – Easy Recipe
Vegetarianism, so fashionable these days, is a way of eating that excludes animal flesh. Vegetarians make up for the lack of meat by broadening their diet with plant foods. As a rule, they eat grains, beans, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, vegetable oils and mushrooms.
Mushroom pizza contains no meat, and thanks to the high protein content of mushrooms it can easily stand in for a meat pizza with ham.
Mushroom pizza is probably the simplest kind of pizza there is – only a plain cheese pizza is simpler. Remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon? The cartoon ninja Michelangelo was a big fan of mushroom pizza. Mushroom pizza is quick to make. It is easy and incredibly tasty.
As the folk saying goes, all mushrooms are edible, but some only once. Among the roughly 200 known species of the Agaricus genus there are inedible and toxic ones. Let's hope the button mushrooms sold to us in shops are not among them.
Champignons (Latin Agaricus) are a genus of gilled mushrooms. The familiar name “champignon” comes from the French word that simply means “mushroom”. Button mushrooms need very little cooking – some recipes even use them raw. Mushroom pizza bakes in the oven for no more than 20 minutes, and that is quite enough.
Ingredients
34 cm pizza
- Pizza dough 400 g
- Button mushrooms 100 g
- Parsley, basil, dill 5-6 sprigs
- Olive oil 2 tbsp
- Parmesan 50 g
- Tomato 1
- Capers 1 tbsp
- Tomato sauce 3 tbsp
- Oregano Spices
Step-by-step recipe
- Make pizza dough from 2 cups of flour, dry yeast and water. When the dough has risen, stretch it over a pizza pan lightly greased with olive oil.
- Mushroom pizza can be made on a thin, slightly crispy base – then let the dough rest for 10-15 minutes before adding the topping. If you prefer a fluffy, soft base, leave the pizza dough under a cloth for more than 30 minutes.
- Prick the dough with a fork in several places so that the steam forming underneath doesn't lift the pizza. Spread the dough with tomato sauce. It's better not to use tomato paste and, of course, not ketchup. Homemade tomato sauce is easy to make yourself and doesn't take long. In the simplest version, blend 100 g of canned tomatoes or a cup of pure tomato juice with a clove of garlic, a sprig of basil and a pinch of nutmeg. Season with salt and pepper to taste and simmer in a frying pan with 1 tbsp of olive oil until the sauce thickens.
- Sprinkle the sauced dough with very finely chopped herbs.
- Lay out slices of thinly sliced fresh tomato and sprinkle with dried oregano.
- Wash the mushrooms, pat them dry with a paper towel and slice them very thinly. Spread the sliced mushrooms evenly over the pizza and press them down lightly with your palm. Sprinkle the pizza with capers.
- Brush the mushrooms with olive oil.
- Finely grate the Parmesan so that it covers the whole mushroom pizza.
- Put the pizza in an oven preheated to 200 °C. Mushroom pizza bakes for 20 minutes. But after 15 minutes it's worth checking the dough by lifting the edge of the pizza with a knife – as soon as the bottom is nicely browned, the pizza is ready.
- Cut the finished pizza into 6-8 slices with a knife.
- Pizza slices can be eaten with your hands, or you can put them on plates and garnish with basil. Serve the pizza hot.
Yield: 34 cm pizza Calories: 210 Prep: 1 h 30 mins Cooking: 30 mins Ready in: 2 h Category: Pizza Cuisine: Italian cuisine Rating: