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Zucchini Pizza Recipe
Zucchini Pizza Recipe features sliced zucchini tossed with garlic and salt to remove moisture, placed on a pizza dough base with mozzarella, goat cheese, lemon slices, and chives. Baked at a high temperature, it delivers a tender crust topped with fresh, tangy, and creamy flavors balanced by the bright citrus and mild cheeses.
Servings:
1
pizza
Ingredients
- 1 zucchini 9 ounces; ends trimmed
- 3 garlic 1 clove grated or minced, 2 cloves thinly sliced
- kosher salt
- olive oil
- 1 pizza dough ball
- 8 ounces mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 lemon small; halved; thinly sliced; seeds removed
- 4 ounces goat cheese crumbled
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chives thinly sliced
Instructions
- Cut zucchini in half lengthwise, then cut each half into half moons. In a medium bowl, toss zucchini with 1 clove grated or minced garlic and 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt. Transfer zucchini to a mesh strainer and set over the bowl. Let drain for 30 minutes, tossing occasionally. Place zucchini in the middle of a double layer of paper towels. Bring the paper towels up around the zucchini, and gently squeeze to release excess moisture. Pat zucchini dry and set aside.
- Preheat an oven to 500°F, and set an oven rack in the lowest possible position. Lightly coat a pizza pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Stretch pizza dough into a round large enough to fit the pizza pan. Very lightly drizzle the dough with olive oil, using your hands to evenly spread the oil around. Sprinkle dough with a small pinch of kosher salt. Top pizza evenly with grated mozzarella cheese, then evenly scatter 2 thinly sliced garlic cloves, prepared zucchini, lemon pieces and goat cheese over top. Sprinkle the surface of the pizza with a little kosher salt and then lightly drizzle with olive oil.
- Transfer pizza to the oven on the lowest rack and cook until the crust is golden brown (bottom and crust) and the cheese is nice and bubbly (9 - 11 minutes). Finish the pizza with a sprinkling of chives.
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Notes
- Slicing the lemon halves into thin half-moons ensures more even lemon flavor distribution on the pizza compared to using whole lemon slices.