I haven't made a homemade pizza in a long time, and I usually use a Boboli crust. This time I'm using one of the Betty Crocker mixes. Here's my recipe for today- it's from my brain- we'll see how it tastes!
Ingredients:
2 package Betty Crocker pizza crust mix
1 cup pizza sauce
1 cup mozzarella cheese
1 marinated and grilled chicken breast, thinly sliced (or you could buy the strips)
1/2 cup marinated sundried tomatoes, rough chopped
6 oz fresh baby spinach
1/2 tbsp oil from sundried tomatoes
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Directions:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
1. Mix crust mix according to instructions and press into pizza pan/stone.
2. Heat oil in saute pan. Add spinach and garlic powder and saute until just wilted.
3. Spread sauce over crust.
4. Sprinkle 1/2 c cheese over sauce.
5. Add sundried tomatoes, chicken and spinach over cheese.
6. Sprinkle remaining cheese over pizza.
My mom used to make a pizza like this with feta cheese, which I LOVE, but again...my 3 year old. Plus, I have mozzarella in my fridge, not feta.
I love my stone!
The Result:
Maybe I'm just having one of those weeks. Today I didn't even read my own directions! Well, in my defense, I did some "research" after I wrote them. I'd never used an unbaked crust before, but I knew that I needed to preheat my pizza stone...so, my research told me that I couldn't actually make the pizza on my stone, so I used a large wooden cutting board. This was my downfall. After assembling the very pretty pizza, I then went to put it in the oven. Despite the flouring of the board, it didn't budge. It was way to heavy, and the raw crust wasn't substantial enough to lift it. This probably wouldn't have been a problem if I had one of those cool pizza stick thingies. So....we had a calzone. I folded the pizza in half, and managed to use to spatulas to get it on the stone.
I was really sad to fold it in half!!
Right after it came out of the oven.
It was all probably pretty comical to watch. The calzone was good, and the ingredients tasted great. I'll definitely be making this again...on a ready-made crust.
The Lesson learned: BUY A DANG BOBOLI! I don't think I'll be making crust again, unless it's for a calzone.
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