🍕 DIY Pizza Night! 🍕
If you’ve been following my posts for awhile, it’s likely you’ve seen a variation of this donair pizza pop up on my feed.
I kicked it up a notch yesterday by adding chopped cherry tomatoes (that I picked up along with the rest of my produce for the week at Fruits Express Ltd., as well as some slightly sweet East Coast Donair Sauce – total game changer!!
To start, whip up a batch of Ricardo Cuisine‘s Pizza Crust (with honey), and let it rise for at least a few hours (up to most of the day, like I did). Hands down, the best, most delicious, easiest homemade pizza dough there is (trust me, I’ve tried many!)
To make the pizza:
🍕 Prepare Epicure‘s East Coast Donair Sauce using their Roasted Garlic Aioli mix (yum!) and set aside. (Pro Tip: I like to place the sauce in a ziplock bag, and cut a small hole in the corner of it with sharp scissors so that I can easily drizzle the sauce)
Next, get to work on your filling:
🍕 In a cast iron pan, sauté one small onion, chopped finely, and 1lb ground chicken (you could also do ground beef, any other ground meat here, and I bet that a vegetarian protein, such as lentils would also work well!)
🍕 In the meantime, stick your pizza stone in the oven and preheat it nice and hot – 500F. The key to a crispy crust that never sticks is to drop it on a HOT stone!
🍕 Once the meat is cooked through, add about 2 cups finely chopped spinach and 2 heaping TBSP of Epicure’s donair seasoning. Stir well to combine, remove from heat.
🍕 Roll out pizza dough and carefully drop onto your HOT pizza stone using a rolling pin.
🍕 Drizzle the dough with the donair sauce, and evenly spread filling on the dough (it’s ok if it’s still hot).
🍕 Top with about 2 cups diced cherry tomatoes and the same amount of shredded mozzarella cheese.
🍕 Cook in a 500F oven for about 10-12 minutes, until dough is cooked and cheese is nice and bubbly and browned.
🍕 Remove from oven and cut with pizza scissors (I love mine from Ricardo! Much easier, in my opinion, than a typical pizza cutter)
While the pizza was going, I made a quick green salad with romaine, cucumbers, carrots, red cabbage and chopped mint and cilantro with my absolute favorite salad dressing:
🥗 ¼ cup avocado oil,
🥗 ¼ cup rice vinegar,
🥗 1 TBSP Epicure’s Honey Mustard
🥗 1 TBSP Oh Canada! Dry glaze seasoning
Once on the plate, cover the pizza slices with an extra drizzle of that donair sauce, and ENJOY!
A perfectly delicious Sunday pizza dinner that is way healthier, cheaper AND tastier than takeout!