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Hand Tossed Veggie Pizza

February 22, 2016

Pizza is by far one of my favorite foods. It’s tasty, filling, and versatile. You can top it with any combination of veggies (or fruits!) you can think of. Pizza comes in all shapes and sizes. Thin crust, thick crust, deep dish, white pizza, red sauce, meat, veggie — whatever you want! Pizza is also conveniently extremely kid-friendly.

I’ll let you in on a little secret — we’ve been making a lot of homemade pizzas lately. Our kids love them. They especially enjoy picking out the toppings and helping put it in the oven to bake.

Fun fact about me: My husband is a master pizza-maker. We met at a pizza place, actually — where we both worked. I was the phone girl and he was the pizza guy. Some nights he’d stay in the shop and toss the pizzas by hand and other times he was a delivery driver.

As such, we love making pizzas as a family. Today I’m sharing one of the better pizzas we’ve made as of late. It’s amazing. Hand tossed veggie pizza is delicious in a restaurant and even better when made at home.

Hand tossed veggie pizza is delicious in a restaurant and even better when made at home. -Running on Happy

Hand-Tossed Veggie Pizza

Ingredients
  • 16 oz dough ball
  • sliced black olives (small can)
  • 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced
  • 1/4 red onion, thin sliced
  • 4 oz sliced mushrooms
  • 1/2 – 1 C pizza sauce
  • 1 – 2 C mozzarella cheese
Directions

Allow dough ball to thaw, if frozen.

Preheat the oven to 425˚F.

Dust a cutting board lightly with flour. Remove from packaging and gently stretch the dough so it’s in a small disc, kneading in a evenly in a clockwise direction. If you feel confident tossing the dough, gently toss and spin the dough, catching with closed fists and tossing again until stretched to the desired size and shape. If you don’t feel confident tossing the dough, continuing gently stretching the dough to fit a pizza pan or stone.

Once the dough is on the pan or stone, spread the pizza sauce almost to the outer edges. You can use as much or as little sauce as you’d like. We use about a cup. Once the sauce is on, begin layering your toppings — we used red bell pepper, red onion, mushrooms, and black olives for this one. Remember to layer evenly. After you placed all your toppings, cover the pizza with cheese. Again, you can use as much or as little cheese as you’d like but what may look like a lot of cheese won’t be as much as you think once it’s baked and melted. It’s a bit of trial and error but more often than not, you should use more cheese than you think you should for an even covering.

Bake for 15 minutes or until cheese is brown and bubbly.

Hand tossed veggie pizza is delicious in a restaurant and even better when made at home. -Running on Happy

Serve and enjoy!


Pizza the healthy way: hand-tossed, homemade. #winning #meatlessmonday #wholefood #plantbased
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15 Comments


Annmarie
February 22, 2016 at 8:24 am
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Love that it’s hand tossed! Looks delicious!



    rfrutkin
    February 22, 2016 at 8:39 am
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    Thanks, mama! 🙂

Deborah @ Confessions of a mother runner
February 22, 2016 at 9:06 am
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I love making my own pizza and it’s you are right it’s easy to make it healthy by adding lots of veggies and controlling the cheese. Now I am hungry 🙂 Thanks for linking up for meatless Monday!



    rfrutkin
    February 22, 2016 at 11:20 am
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    Lol! Me too. 🙂 #looooovepizza

Susie @ SuzLyfe
February 22, 2016 at 10:10 am
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Pizza is like the easiest thing ever. And I will still go and get someone else to make it, lol. SO LAZY



    rfrutkin
    February 22, 2016 at 11:21 am
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    Ditto, girl. Hahah

Amber
February 22, 2016 at 10:38 am
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This pizza looks amazing! Thanks for hosting this great link up once again!



    rfrutkin
    February 22, 2016 at 11:21 am
    Reply

    Thank you! It sure was tasty.

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Courtney
February 22, 2016 at 2:58 pm
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This looks so good! I bet it tastes just as wonderful. 🙂



    rfrutkin
    February 22, 2016 at 3:02 pm
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    Thanks! Noms!!

Sarah
February 22, 2016 at 10:44 pm
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I have been craving pizza lately and my husband and family are loving it since I usually like to keep it to once a week or less. Lately it’s been a couple times a week or at least weekly! My husband is the dough maker and I love a good veggie pizza! Sounds like a delicious combo, just swap the black olives for green on mine please! 😉



    rfrutkin
    February 23, 2016 at 8:47 am
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    We love green olives! That’s usually one of our go-to toppings!! Yummmmmm.

Farrah
February 23, 2016 at 12:24 am
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I’ve never tried tossing the dough before–to be honest, it kinda terrifies me, haha. I feel like with my clumsiness, I’m liable to make that dough fly across the room. ._. This pizza looks amazing! <3



    rfrutkin
    February 23, 2016 at 8:48 am
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    It does take a certain finesse… haha!

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