PIZZA BEEF ZOODLE: sauteed garlic zucchini strips serve as base for gateway sauce and as the main topping for a cast iron pizza.
Today we will make a garlic beef zoodle pizza, with strips of sauteed zucchini as our main element. We will cook part of our pepper, onion, and zucchini vegetable medley and puree it and use that for the base sauce. We also add our zoodle strips as the final topping to create a delicious and elegant gateway meal.
Please check out my post on simple pizza dough HERE, for a super-easy pizza crust.
Have you ever struggled with ideas for meals? The pattern we use today might help open up a lot of opportunities for you to creatively use the ingredients you already have in your kitchen. I call it a gateway pattern. We will use the familiar pizza dough, the familiar pizza layering of toppings, but we will not go down the tomato sauce path. In a lot of ways this limits what a pizza is. I think it’s true that a pizza pattern, is a very efficient way to create a dish that combines all it’s ingredients.
So let’s use this pizza platform pattern to create any dish that we might want to eat with bread. Kind of like a quiche, where we can feel free to any almost anything and everything to a pizza we can imagine, and it all starts with the sauce. Zucchini and beef are our featured players and taste surprisingly good and natural on a pizza.
So let’s get right to it!
EQUIPMENT LIST
cast iron pan
sectioned trays
1/2 cup measure
1/3 cup measure
1 pinch measure
1 dash measure
INGREDIENT LIST
pizza crust
1/3 cup red bell pepper
1/3 cup orange bell pepper
1/3 cup yellow bell pepper
1/3 cup onion
1/3 cup diced cabbage
1 clove minced garlic
1 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 cup whole mushrooms
1 1/2 cup cooked ground beef
1 dash apple cider vinegar
1 pinch hot sauce
1 pinch mustard
1 pinch ketchup
pinch salt
pinch pepper
Short Prep
PREPARATION
add oil and vegetables to cast iron pan
add onions
add zoodles
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add salt and pepper
cook for 7 minutes
add garlic
add beef
add eggs
take off heat
set aside half ingredients
puree in blender
take pizza crust
add sauce
spread sauce evenly on crust
add mushrooms
add mozzarella
add parmesan
add cabbage salt and pepper
add zoodles, meat and vegetables
add remaining mozzarella and parmesan cheese
bake at 400 for 30 to 35 minutes
enjoy!
Today we learned how to leverage the pizza pattern with a custom sauce to open up a whole new set of pizza meal ideas. The key of course is the sauce. We saw how half our ingredient medley was sauteed then pureed and used on top of our pizza dough in place of tomato sauce.
It could have been rice and beans and cheese, or skittles brisket rolled up like a stromboli. Tomato sauce is awesome, but our pizza creations are not limited to those ingredients that go with tomatos.
Look out for my next post, where we use our pizza pan and our short prep toppings to create a quick noodle stir fry using angel hair pasta or ramen noodles.
Thanks and see you next time!