Basil Pesto Cream Cheese Pizzas with Salad

Basil Pesto Cream Cheese Pizzas with Salad

Ready in 25 minutes • Serves 4-5
This dish most recently appeared in My Family (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, March 6, 2016.
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These veggie pizzas are easy to whip up and the kids can help too!

Ingredients

BASIL PESTO CREAM CHEESE PIZZAS

  • 2 pizza bases
  • 1/2 cup pizza sauce
  • 1 1/4 cups grated edam cheese
  • 1/2 punnet cherry tomatoes, cut in half
  • 1/2 capsicum, core and seeds removed and thinly sliced
  • 1/4 red onion, very thinly sliced (optional, adults)
  • 60g basil pesto
  • 1/2 tub cream cheese

SALAD

  • 1/2 punnet cherry tomatoes
  • 1/2 capsicum
  • 1/4 red onion (optional, adults)
  • 1–2 baby cos lettuces, leaves torn
  • 2–3 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • 25g pine nuts, to serve (optional, adults)

Steps

  1. oven to 220°C. Preheat two oven trays. Alternatively, preheat two pizza stones (if you have them).
  2. Lay two sheets of baking paper on bench and place a pizza base on top of each. Spread 3–4 tablespoons pizza sauce over each base and evenly sprinkle with cheese. Arrange tomatoes, capsicum and onion (if using) on top. In a small dish, mix basil pesto and cream cheese until well combined. Use a teaspoon to dollop this mixture evenly over pizzas. Season with salt and pepper.
  3. Carefully lift up baking paper sheets with pizzas on top and place on preheated trays (or stones) then carefully slide baking paper away (use a fish slice to help with this). Cook pizzas until the base is crisp and golden around the edges, 9–10 minutes. Swap position of trays half way through cooking so they cook evenly.
  4. While pizzas are cooking, prepare the salad. Cut cherry tomatoes in half; thinly slice capsicum and onion (if using); combine all in a large bowl with lettuce. Toss with olive oil and season with salt and pepper just before serving.
  5. Sprinkle pine nuts over pizzas (if desired), cut each pizza into 6 pieces and divide between plates. Serve with salad on the side.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2301 kj
550 kcal
Protein 19.1g
Carbohydrate 49.4g
Fat 29.5g