Grilled Vegetables
Grilled Vegetable Pizza with Feta and Spinach
This is a very healthy recipe. Vegetables including spinach are combined with garlic and feta to make this a wholesome and delicious vegetable pizza recipe. Spinach is high in vitamin A and vitamin C and vitamin K. Grilled vegetable recipes often use a combination of flavors, colors and textures and this recipe does the same.
Vinegar is used in this recipe to enhance the taste of the vegetables and to complement the slightly sharp flavor of the feta cheese. This vegetable pizza is very easy to make and will definitely be a hit with your family or guests. If you want to, you can use zucchini instead of eggplant in the recipe.
This Vegetable Pizza Recipe Features Spinach and Feta Cheese
Ingredients -
2 readymade pizza crusts, 10 oz each
1 crushed clove garlic
5 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 cups mozzarella cheese
1 cup crumbled feta cheese
2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
2 cups spinach leaves, finely sliced
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 eggplant, cut into ¼ inch thick crosswise slices
7 plum tomatoes, thinly sliced
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
Cooking spray
Crushed red pepper, to taste
Parmesan cheese, to taste
Preparation:
Preheat the grill to moderate. Mix the garlic with 3 tablespoons of the balsamic vinegar and brush this over the sliced eggplant.
Sprinkle the salt and pepper on both sides of the eggplant, and then arrange the slices on a cooking spray coated grill rack.
Grill for a couple of minutes per side or until tender.
Take the eggplant off the grill, cut it into smaller pieces and put it to one side.
Put 1 of the pizza crusts on the cooking spray coated grill rack and grill it until golden and puffy.
This will take about 3 minutes. Turn the crust grill-mark side facing up and brush a teaspoon of oil over it.
Put half the eggplant over the crust, overlapping the slices a bit.
Top with half the cheese, half the oregano and half the tomatoes.
Mix the rest of the vinegar with the spinach and arrange half of this over the pizza.
Repeat with the other crust and toppings.
Cover and grill the pizzas for 3 minutes or until they are heated.
Add some red pepper and parmesan to taste and serve hot.
(Serves 4)
Spinach is a plant, of the genus Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves. Can be served both cooked and warm or cold in salads very high in vitamins.
Feta Cheese - fet·a
Pronounced: (fet'è), n.
Description: a soft creamy, white, brine-cured greek cheese made from goat's milk or sheep's milk usually. Feta's flavor is a distinctive salty flavor the cheese itself is semi-firm, somewhat crumbly snow-white cheese with bumpy, sharp Mediterranean flavor cheese is packed in brine often. Feta is sometimes referred to as a "pickled" cheese.
Spinach
Pronounced: (spin'ich), n.
Spinach is a plant, of the genus Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves. Can be served both cooked and warm or cold in salads very high in vitamins.