Take-out Tuesday, Pizza!

the Painted Apron

8 years ago

Pizza!

Anything goes…. Summer Squash & Prosciutto Pizza

Deep Dish, like this Garden Tomato Pizzeria Pie

Thin crust, like this Queso Pizza with Bacon & Corn

Stuffed Crust, Breadstick Spiral Pizza

Salad Topped, BLT Flatbread

Puff Pastry Crust, Holiday Veggie Tart

Pizza is so versatile, dine-in, take-out, call for delivery, buy frozen, or…..

make it at home

I love pizza, to me it’s the perfect one dish meal, and I love love love to make my own

Pizza from scratch can be as easy or as complicated as you like

Make your own crust, Guy Fieri’s 5 minute, no knead dough

Make your crust out of cauliflower or zucchini

Buy fresh dough {deli or a pizza place}, use ready made packaged crusts or get refrigerated dough from the grocery

My current favorite is this Pillsbury Thin Crust Pizza Crust

Pizza is great any time of day, Full Moon Flatbread

And pizza is great leftover…

The only drawback to pizza is that it tends to be loaded with fat and calories…

But when you make your own you can get great flavors and satisfaction with a fraction of the calories, and it’s the perfect place to pile on the veggies

It was only a matter of time before my favorite ingredients got together to make the perfect pizza for me,

Roasted Brussels sprouts, crispy bacon, and bleu cheese, piled on a crisp, thin alfredo sauced crust, with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese

Heaven!

Bacon & Brussels Sprout Pizza

Course Appetizer, Main Course

Cuisine American, Italian

Keyword appetizer, bacon and Brussels sprout pizza, Brussels sprouts, flatbread,, light main dish, pizza

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 45

Ingredients

1 can refrigerated pizza crust dough like Pillsbury thin crust
1 cup+ light Alfredo sauce like Classico lite Asiago Romano
24-30 Brussels sprouts washed, stems cut off and halved
6-8 slices thick cut bacon
3-4 oz bleu cheese
2 oz shaved Parmesan cheese
olive oil
salt & pepper

Instructions

Place Brussels sprouts in between bacon slices on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Drizzle sprouts lightly with olive oil and season them with salt and pepper. Bake at 400, 20-25 minutes until bacon is done and sprouts are beginning to char. Drain bacon well on paper towels and cut into 1 inch pieces
Bake crust according to package directions, removing when just done. It will brown further when returned to oven with toppings. Top with 1 cup alfredo sauce and spread into a thin layer. Add sprouts and bacon pieces. Sprinkle with bleu cheese and Parmesan. Drizzle with a little more alfredo sauce if desired. Return to oven for about 10 minutes, until cheese has melted and crust is golden. Cut into 8 or 12 large squares for serving, or mini squares for appetizers.

Notes

Can be made ahead. Refrigerate prepared pizza and bake right before serving. Leftovers reheat well in toaster or oven

This pizza isn’t hard to make, but it does require about 30 minutes to pre-bake the crust and roast the sprouts, but the bacon and sprouts can be cooked together and you can go do something else while they are cooking

Once the bacon and sprouts are done, it just takes minutes to layer on the toppings and return pizza to the oven for final baking. You can even assemble the pizza early in the day or the night before and refrigerate it until baking