Vegetarian pizza with soy chorizo
At the risk of sounding dramatic, homemade pizza has changed my life. I once described myself as “not really a pizza person.” Now I make pizza at home at least once a week. Pizza dough is a great vehicle for anything and everything that you have in the fridge. Have some veggies you need to get rid of? Throw it on dough. Craving just a few slices of pepperoni? Throw it on dough and load the rest of the pizza with fresh produce. Homemade pizza is extremely customizable, you don’t have to follow a recipe and (the best part!) you don’t even have to make your own dough.
Ingredients
1 package store-bought pizza dough (I used Trader Joe’s dough)
1/2 bell pepper, chopped
1/4 red onion, chopped
3 medium button mushrooms, sliced
2 tbsp BBQ sauce
Soy chorizo (also from Trader Joe’s)
Gruyere cheese
Directions
Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Warm a cast iron pan in oven (if you don’t have a cast iron pan, a baking sheet will do just fine).
When pan is slightly warm, take out of oven, flour the dough and spread onto pan.
Add sauce, vegetables and as much/little soy chorizo and cheese as you like.
Pop into oven for 15-20 minutes.