Holy. Crap.
I really didn't expect this pizza to turn out this awesome. It was a wacky idea that somehow totally worked! Basically, I took almost everything that I bought at the Fulton Street Farmer's Market yesterday and baked it on a pizza crust with a mashed bean spread instead of a traditional pizza sauce. Weird, huh?
Here's the deal:
1 large pre-made large pizza crust - I used Bova Bakery's Roasted Garlic crust
1 medium size leek, sliced
1 cup radicchio, shredded (It was so pretty I almost didn't want to chop it up--Trillium Haven Farm rules.)
1 1/2 cup kale leaves, torn into pieces
1 large tomato, diced (I used a cool-looking heirloom tomato)
2 cloves garlic, put through a press or very finely minced
1 large carrot, shredded
2 cans of beans, rinsed and well drained (I used 1 pinto and 1 garbanzo but 2 cans of cannellini beans would be great too)
1-2 Tablespoon water or veggie broth
2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 Tablespoons Balsamic vinegar
1 Tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon nutritional yeast
1/2 Tablespoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon rubbed sage
sea salt
black pepper
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, mix together leeks, radicchio, kale, carrot, tomato, and garlic. Add 1 tablespoon each olive oil and Balsamic vinegar. Mix well to coat evenly. Stir in oregano, sage, 1 teaspoon of nutritional yeast, and salt and black pepper to taste. Set aside. In another large bowl, mix drained beans with 1 tablespoon each olive oil, Balsamic vinegar and nutritional yeast. Mash bean mixture with a potato masher until no whole beans remain. Add 1-2 tablespoons of the water or veggie broth while mashing to get mixture to a consistency that will make it easy to spread. It may not be a pretty color, but it will end up getting covered up with the veggie mix so don't worry about that too much. Spread bean mixture evenly over pizza crust using a rubber spatula. Leave about 3/4 an inch of crust uncovered around the edge. Stir your veggie mix once again and then spoon it evenly on top of the bean mixture.
Carefully place your pizza on the middle oven rack and bake it for 10-12 minutes. It's done when the crust is golden brown. The veggies will still have a slightly raw flavor and be a little crunchy.
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| I took this with my Blackberry so it is blurry and grainy but you get the idea. |
