Cheesy Green Garden Pizza

This nutritious and delicious pizza recipe consists of broccoli, Swiss chard and cheese for a vegetarian’s delight. Crunchy, soft, cheesy and green this cheesy green garden pizza is a refreshing alternative to the usual pizza toppings. Broccoli and Swiss chard complement each other in this easy pizza recipe. Their texture and flavor combine really well to make an extraordinary treat. They are also the two of the most nutritious vegetables on the planet. This cheesy green garden pizza is just one of the nutritious and healthy vegetable recipes from Gourmandia.

Swiss chard is often associated with Mediterranean cuisine and is used a lot in Italian and French cooking. It ranks only second to spinach as the most nutritious of vegetables in the world. In this recipe, Swiss chard, together with the broccoli is first cooked with some water to reduce its concentration of oxalic acid before it is topped over the pizza and baked in the oven.

Difficulty Level

Easy

Ingredients

200 Gms pizza dough (you can also use pre made pizza base)

100gms broccoli well chopped

1/3 cup water

10 cups Swiss chard

Salt to taste

Black pepper to taste

3/4 cup pesto, prepared

1 cup low fat cheddar cheese

Preparation Instructions

On a smooth surface, roll the dough to about the size of a medium pizza. Place the dough in a pizza pan.

Meanwhile, in a saucepan, cook the broccoli with the water on a medium flame until tender. To this, add the Swiss chard. Keep stirring until cooked. Add salt and pepper, to taste.

On the crust, evenly spread the pesto and top it with the prepared broccoli mixture. Spread some cheese over this.

Bake the pizza in a preheated 500 degrees F oven until it's crispy and golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. The cheese should melt slightly.