One of my favorite things about summer is visiting the local farmer's market to purchase some of the freshest produce around. But one thing that's even better than purchasing fresh produce is getting it for free - the tomatoes used in this recipe were grown in a friend's garden! They had some extra heirloom tomatoes lying around and graciously gave a bunch to Jake when he was over visiting them a couple weeks ago.
This recipe (like the majority of pizza recipes) takes only a couple minutes to prep, and the pizza is ready to eat in under 15 minutes! Best of all, this recipe only requires 5 ingredients.
Ingredients:
- prepared pizza dough
- cornmeal or flour for dusting
- pesto
- fresh mozzarella
- heirloom tomatoes
How to:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Allow pizza dough to come to room temperature. Dust a pizza peel or other surface with cornmeal or flour to prevent dough from sticking to surface.
- Roll out dough using your hands or rolling pin on top of dusted surface.
- Spread 2-3 Tbsp of pesto on top of the dough.
- Top pizza with fresh mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes.
- Spread 1-2 more Tbsp of pesto on top of the mozzarella and tomatoes.
- Transfer pizza to oven and bake for 12-15 minutes.
Jake and I received a pizza stone as a wedding gift, and we absolutely love it. If you too are using a pizza stone, place it in the oven before turning it on, so it heats up as the oven is preheating. We use our pizza peel to then transfer the pizza into the oven.
I love that despite this recipe's simplicity, it tastes like a gourmet pizza! I'm so glad our friends gave us lots of heirloom tomatoes - we'll be making this pizza again very soon. I made the dough from scratch from my recipe I've previously shared with you. I didn't have enough basil on hand to make my own pesto, so I just used the store bought stuff (which was still delicious).
Enjoy!
The original recipe can be found here.
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