Recipe- Enjoy Diwali Break With Onion And Bell Pepper Pesto Pizza

Pizzas, pizzas & more pizzas. Can we ever have enough of it? I doubt! Everyone loves a good pizza and in my opinion nothing beats a homemade version.

It’s so much fun to make pizzas at home because you can play around this flavors, different cheese and different crust as well. Also you can make them healthier [no this recipe isn’t healthy, but you can!] by replacing the crust with whole wheat flour or other whole grains. Also the most important thing for me is that you can control the amount of cheese that goes into your pizza. I don’t like layers and layers of cheese on my pizza and that’s why hardly ever eat it outside. I love the fact that I can add just the right about of cheese to my pizza when I make it at home.

Ingredients

1 pizza dough [homemade]
1/3 cup pesto [homemade or store bought]
¾ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
½ green bell pepper cut into cubes
1 red onion small, cut into rings and slices
salt to taste
pepper to taste

Method

* Preheat oven to 500 F degrees.

* Roll out the dough into a 10 inch round pizza. I rolled out the dough very thin as I was making a thin crust.

* Transfer rolled dough to a pizza pan sprinkled with cornmeal. Using a fork, poke the dough so that it doesn't balloon up while baking.

* Apply pesto sauce all over the dough.

* Arrange onions and green bell peppers over the pesto in whichever way you want to. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on top.

* Fold the edges of the crust (this is optional) and top the veggies with shredded mozzarella cheese.

* Bake at 500 F degrees for 5 minutes and then rotate the pan 180 degree and bake for another 3 minutes till the cheese is all bubbly and melted.

* Slice and serve immediately.