What are your favorite pizza toppings? Nothing beats a simple cheese pizza or margherita style pizza with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil. When I’m looking for more, though, I love loading pizza with extras like BBQ chicken pizza or today’s roasted vegetable mix on whole wheat pizza crust.
Roasted Vegetable Pizza Details
Flavor: Enjoy garlic and roasted vegetables with mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce on a bed of hearty pizza crust. You control the flavor with this recipe because you can choose which vegetables to use such as eggplant, bell pepper, zucchini, onion, mushroom, broccoli, etc. Ease: Making pizza at home is surprisingly simple, especially if you take a shortcut and use store-bought pizza dough. If you can remember, though, throw homemade dough ingredients together in the afternoon. The dough needs to rise, but all of that “work” is completely hands-off. I definitely recommend trying homemade whole wheat pizza dough or regular pizza dough—both are great for beginners!
By the way, if you love roasted vegetables and are looking for a savory appetizer-style tart, try this butternut squash mushroom tart. You can use store-bought or homemade puff pastry. Or for an option using raw vegetables, try this cold veggie pizza using flatbread crust.
Roasted Vegetable Pizza Success Tips
Add Extra Flavor
I love adding garlic to this pizza. For delicious flavor, add 1 garlic clove to your pan of vegetables and roast it along with the vegetables. Typical roasted garlic takes much longer, but this time is enough for a little roasted flavor. Here I’m using my whole wheat pizza dough. That recipe yields almost 2 lbs of dough which is enough for 2 pizzas. Freeze the 2nd half of dough for another time or make 2 pizzas (double the toppings below or use different toppings). Chop the garlic you roasted and sprinkle over shaped dough before adding your pizza toppings: An optional sprinkle of parmesan cheese, dried herbs such as basil or oregano, and some fresh basil are the perfect garnishes.
Favorite Pizza Pans
Let me share my top choices for pizza pans just in case you’re shopping for a new one. I use and love (affiliate links) this one and this one. If you like baking your homemade pizzas on pizza stones, I’ve used this one before and it’s wonderful. And if you don’t have a pizza pan—don’t worry—just bake your pizza on a large baking sheet instead. For more vegetarian dinner ideas, try my creamy butternut squash mac and cheese, vegetable pot pie, mushroom puff pastry tarts, or vegetarian pumpkin chili. And for more hearty savory recipe ideas, see my list of 30 delicious fall dinner recipes.
