I found the inspiration for this recipe on Healthy Happy Life a vegan food blog. I seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time on vegan food blogs for someone is not even remotely vegan in my eating habits.
Gordie has been a little suspicious of green food lately (except edamame which he loves), so he was not particularly impressed by this choice. But I think it might lure in some reluctant broccoli eaters.
Broccoli and Cheese Pizza
Ingredients
- broccoli
- shredded cheese
- cream cheese (regular or any kind of savoury flavoring)
- olive oil
- garlic
- whole wheat pitas
Instructions
- Spread a thin layer of olive oil on the pita. Add thin slices of garlic. I used about a clove per pita.
- Add thin slices of broccoli. For mine I used the whole ‘tree’ but for Gordie’s I used little bits of the florets (pictured on the right).
- Add little splotches of cream cheese (about 1 tbsp total) around the pita.
- Top with shredded cheese.
- Bake for about 5 minutes. I used the toaster oven so I did 3 minutes on bake and 2 on broil. Basically your goal is to melt the cheese without burning the pita too much.
- I used sundried tomato cream cheese which was nice, but I really think any would be fine.
I used whole wheat pitas for the ‘dough’ and that worked well, but I think I would probably blanch the broccoli quickly in the microwave if I was doing it again just so they were cooked a little bit extra. This wouldn’t be a problem if you were using base that wasn’t quite so thin.
I really enjoyed these and will definitely make them again. I wouldn’t skip the cream cheese though. I tried one without it and it just needed a little something extra.
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