The Pizza Bowl!

Here it is!  The pizza bowl.  These are simple and tasty and good for you!

Have you tried the Demarle herbed pizza dough?  I think I've talked about it before.  It's so, so yummy!  That's what I used for these pizza bowls, but you can use whatever pizza dough you usually use (but seriously, you need to try the Demarle dough!)  I used the Round Tray here, but you can use the small, medium, large, or the new grande mold (or hey - use the muffin or mini muffin and make amazing little hors d'oeuvres - brilliant!).  Just use whatever size of mold you want your pizza to be.  Roll out your dough so it's about 2-3 inches wider in diameter than the bottom of the mold you'll be using.  You want your dough to drape over the sides about an inch all the way around.  Put your mold or tray upside down on your perforated baking sheet.  Roll out the dough pretty thin - about 1/4 inch thick, and drape over the bottom of your mold/tray.  Like this:

Bake these beauties at 350 for about 15 minutes or until they start to turn golden.

In the meantime, choose your filling.  I used a variety of veggies and cut or diced them into small pieces. Use whatever you'd like.  If you must know what I used, here's my list:  red, yellow and orange bell pepper, asparagus, yellow squash, red onion, tomato, spinach, basil, olives and salami.  It was a veggie party.  And the salami wanted in too.  Gotta get that protein - HA!  I put all my cut up veggies in the Large Round mold, sprinkled them with some Demarle Rosemary, Basil and Thyme herb blend, and baked them til they were tender-ish.

Fill your bowl with some of your veggies, top with mozzarella cheese, drizzle with some Demarle balsamic vinegar (yum!) and there you have it.

These are great because you can personalize the pizzas with whatever you want.  Instead of baking all the veggies together, put the chopped veggies out and let your kids fill a cup in the muffin tray with their choice of "toppings".  Bake them all at once and scoop the veggies from their muffin cup into their pizza bowl.  Kids love this concept of the pizza bowl.  My son had a blast helping me roll out the dough and bake it on an upside down tray!  My nieces and nephews couldn't contain themselves choosing their toppings and filling the muffin tray.  They loved making these and eating them too!  And it's all veggies!

Don't stop at pizza!  Use pie crust and make something fruity for dessert.  Get creative and let me know how it goes!