Mediterranean Pizza
Made with store-bought dough, this easy mediterranean pizza is topped with sun dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, olives, artichokes and feta and has a sesame seed crust.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil plus more for brushing crust
- 1 pound store-bought refrigerated pizza dough or homemade dough, at room temperature
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup baby spinach
- 1/2 cup halved pitted kalamata olives and castelvetrano olives
- 1/2 cup quartered sun-dried tomatoes and roughly chopped roasted red peppers
- 1/2 cup quartered marinated artichoke hearts
- 1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Grease a sheet pan with 1 tablespoon olive oil. You can line the pan with parchment paper if you want.
- Stretch and shape the dough into a rough rectangle or oval, about 9-inches by 12-inches. (If the dough is sticky, you can dust it with flour to make it easier to work with.)
- Spread the pizza sauce across the dough, leaving a 1/2-inch border at the edges.
- Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese and sliced garlic on the pizza.
- Top with baby spinach, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, artichokes and red onions.
- Scatter the feta over the vegetables.
- Brush the crust with olive oil and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes until the pizza crust puffs up and is browned and crisp.
Notes
If you don’t want to use refrigerated pizza dough, you can use store-bought pizza crust. Just follow the cooking instructions on the package.
You can bake the pizza on a preheated pizza stone instead of a sheet pan.
Adjust the amounts of olives, red peppers, tomatoes and artichokes to suit your taste. You just need about 1-1/2 cups total.
Store leftover pizza in the refrigerator up to 5 days. Wrap it or put it in an airtight container. Eat it cold or warm it on a baking sheet in 400-degree F oven for 7-9 minutes.
You can freeze the pizza wrapped tightly up to 1 month. Warm it for 13-15 minutes at 400 degrees F. You do not need to thaw it before putting it in the oven.
Nutrition
Calories: 482kcal | Carbohydrates: 62g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 2013mg | Potassium: 276mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 1198IU | Vitamin C: 19mg | Calcium: 209mg | Iron: 5mg