This Rustic Italian Pizza is super easy to make and a great break from traditional greasy pizzas that weigh you down. Pair it with a side salad and you’ll have a delicious meal in under 30 minutes.
The secret to making this pizza is to start with a cauliflower pizza crust. Don’t worry – you don’t have to pull out your food processor and rice cauliflower and all of the other 200 steps it takes to make a cauliflower pizza crust.
Green Giant has done all of the hard work and created an easy-to-bake cauliflower pizza crust that is made with simple ingredients – all of which we can pronounce! Plus, since the crusts are made with cauliflower, they have fewer calories than traditional pizza dough.
How To Make a Rustic Italian Pizza
Step 1: To make this delicious pizza, start by baking an untopped pizza crust for about 15 minutes.
Step 2: Add the toppings. Start by lightly spraying the pre-baked crust with non-stick spray and then sprinkle Italian seasoning on the top. Next, add a layer of thinly sliced tomatoes. Don’t worry that there is no pizza sauce – it isn’t needed for this pizza.
On top of the tomatoes, add mozzarella cheese. You can easily make this recipe vegan-friendly by using a plant-based cheese if you’d like.
Last, but not least, sprinkle the cheese with dried basil for an added layer of flavor.
Step 3: Bake for an additional 6-8 minutes so that the cheese starts to brown and becomes bubbly.
Rustic Italian Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 Green Giant Caulillower Pizza Crust Original flavor
- nonstick spray
- ¼ teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2-3 Roma tomatoes thinly sliced
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- ¼ teaspoon dried basil
Instructions
- Bake pizza crust in a preheated (425 degrees) oven for 14-16 minutes.
- Remove pizza crust from the oven and lightly spray pizza crust with nonstick spray. Sprinkle crust with Italian seasoning. Place a thin layer of sliced tomatoes on top of the crust. Add mozzarella cheese on top of the tomatoes and sprinkle basil on top.
- Bake for 6 – 8 minutes until cheese is bubbly and starting to turn golden brown. Remove from oven.
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If you prefer a crispier crust, in Step 1 bake the crust directly on the center oven rack. In Step 3, bake for 4-6 minutes and then carefully remove the pizza from your oven.
I like to think of the cauliflower pizza crusts from Green Giant as a clever way of eating my veggies. After all, the star ingredient is cauliflower, you know?
Seriously, it doesn’t get much easier to make a pizza – no prep work and no cleanup. What’s great is that you can top these crusts any way you’d like. You can make a vegan pizza or a meat-lovers’ pizza. You can use pizza sauce if you’d like. It’s up to you.
This post was sponsored by Green Giant as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own.
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