Pizza on the Grill with Veggies

From the Casa Marcela Garden
30min
1 pizza

Pizza on the Grill with Veggies from the Casa Marcela Garden!

Preparation

Ingredients

  • Purchased pizza dough
  • Corn meal
  • Purchased pizza sauce or Philips’s tomato sauce from my Fiestas book
  • Shredded dry mozzarella cheese
  • Thinly sliced crookneck squash or zucchini and coated in olive oil, slat and pepper
  • Squash blossoms (about 5 per pizza), washed with pistils removed
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Walnut pesto, recipe follows
  • Zatar seasoning
  • Walnut Pesto: 2 cups fresh basil leaves
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 3/4 cups walnuts
  • 1/3 cup parmesan Reggiano cheese (optional)
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • Matriarca Salsa Macha, for drizzle

Instructions

  1. Prepare grill (we have a green egg) on high heat to 600F.
  2. lace pizza stone in grill. Take one 1-cup piece of dough and roll it out into floured surface into a 10 to 12-inch round. Sprinkle pizza peel heavily with corn meal and place dough round on pizza peel.
  3. Spread about 1/3 cup of tomato sauce over dough, leaving a 1/2 inch border. Top with about 1/3 cup cheese. Then carefully arrange zucchini, squash blossoms and cherry tomatoes over cheese.
  4. Drizzle about 2 tablespoons Pesto over pizza. Sprinkle with Zatar. Place pizza on stone and close cover. Cook at 600F for about 7 minutes, checking half way for doneness.
  5. Use peel to remove pizza and transfer to cutting board.
  6. Blend all ingredients in processor until smooth. Season lightly with salt and pepper and drizzle Matriarca Salsa Macha