Pumpkin pizza recipe

Did you know that pizza dough can also include potato, pumpkin or any other vegetable? In this way, it acquires a totally different taste, which allows us Do you encourage it to try it? With this recipe, you can also take advantage of pumpkin puree remains that were left over the day before. Likewise, by incorporating this ingredient into the dough you get the little ones to eat this beneficial food for their organism, with hardly any realize. Keep reading and discover in an easy and fast way how to make pumpkin pizza.

Ingredients to make pumpkin pizza:

1. Prepare the pumpkin puree cooking the boiled or baked fruit, how do you like it! In any case, we recommend chopping pumpkin to cook faster. It will take about 30 minutes to the oven, while well chopped, the time is reduced to 20 minutes. Run our pumpkin recipe in the oven to know all the details.

Trick: If you cook the boiled pumpkin, you will need less liquid to make the pizza dough.

2. Mix the yeast with the sugar, a tablespoon of flour and warm water. The amount of water must be the necessary to completely cover the mixture. Apart, mix the remaining flour with salt. To make pumpkin pizza, the ideal is to use 000 flour, known in some countries as strength flour, but if you do not get it, you can use another faster flour, such as pastry, although you should know that the final result will vary a bit .

3. forms a crown with the flour and pour dissolved yeast, oil and pumpkin puree. Knead until a smooth and homogeneous dough. If you consider it necessary, you can add water, always slowly not to pass. It forms a ball, cover it with a clean cloth and let it rest until its volume duplicates, about 1 hour.

4. You can also make your pumpkin pizza without flour using whole wheat flour, with gluten without. Likewise, you can use oatmeal, which you can easily do at home following this video, to obtain, thus, a healthier and more light pumpkin pizza and oatmeal.

5. When the dough has increased its size, you can divide it into several portions to make more than one pizza. For example, you can make pumpkin pizzetas, which are smaller pizzas, if you divide the dough into 4-5 pieces. If, on the contrary, you prefer a larger pumpkin pizza, divide it only into 2.

6. Extend the dough with a roller or with your own hands, preferably having sprinkled flour on the work table, your fingers or the roller. Place the dough on the oven tray, cover it and let it rest for a few minutes.

7. While the pumpkin pizza dough rests for the second time, prepare the ingredients that you will use for the filling. To do this, you can make your own tomato sauce! Pick the onion and rehoge in a pan with a splash of hot oil.

8. When the onion is transparent, add the tomatoes also chopped. Lower the fire so that the tomato releases all its juices and integrates with the onion. Another sauce that we recommend to try is the one we teach you to prepare in the following recipe: Recipe for tomato and basil sauce.

Trick: To peel the tomatoes easily, make a cross at the base and leave them 2 minutes in boiling water. Then, let cool and see that the skin comes out perfectly.

9. When you have the sauce ready, the dough will have already rested enough. You can stretch it a little more with your own fingers before distributing tomato sauce throughout the base. Then, add the ingredients that you like most, such as mushrooms, pepper, aromatic herbs …, and the mozzarella cheese! Bake the pumpkin pizza for 10-15 minutes at 180 ºC and ready to eat. If you want to make your vegan pumpkin pizza, we recommend you visit our Mozzarella-type vegan cheese recipe.

Trick: You can add chopped grass before serving!