Sweet Potato and Kale Pizza
The colors and flavors of sweet potato and kale take this pizza to a whole new delicious and nutritious place. Truly a superfood pizza loaded with carotenoids and other phytochemicals (naturally occurring plant chemicals) linked to health-promoting and disease-fighting activities.
For a vegan meal, replace goat cheese with toasted pumpkin or sunflower seeds
Simplify by making the sweet potato puree the day before.
If making homemade pizza crust, my favorite recipe is 100 Days of Real Food: Whole Wheat Pizza
- 1/4 cup broth (I usually have chicken broth on hand but use vegetable broth for vegan guests)
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes optional
- 1 large red onion thinly sliced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 1/2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil divided
- 1 package prepared whole-wheat pizza dough 21 ounces
- 1 bunch curly kale stemmed and torn into bite-size pieces
- 1/4 cup crumbled goat cheese optional
- 2 tablespoon crushed walnuts or sunflower seeds
- Heat oven to 425°F.
- Steam sweet potatoes 8 - 10 minutes or until potatoes are tender when poked with a fork. Remove sweet potatoes from pot, drain and cool.
- Place sweet potatoes in food processor with broth and red pepper flakes, pulse until smooth.
- While sweet potatoes are cooking, heat 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil in skillet. Add onion and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until it starts to turn golden brown. Add garlic, and cook another 2 minutes, stirring. Turn off skillet and let cool.
- Roll out dough until 1/4 inch thick. Spread potato sauce evenly over dough. Spread onion over Toss kale in remaining 1/2 tablespoon oil, place on top of onion.
- Top pizza with kale and goat cheese. Bake until crust is golden, 10 to 15 minutes, sprinkling on walnuts in final 2 minutes.
Variations:
Use butternut squash instead of sweet potatoes, or a blend of butternut squash and sweet potatoes.
Add 1 red bell pepper with cut in quarters and steamed with sweet potatoes or, sliced, to sauté with the onion. It pumps up the flavor and the nutrients
Vegan Pizza
Use vegetable broth when pureeing the sweet potatoes
Instead of goat cheese, toast 1/4 cup of sunflower seeds and sprinkle on pizza the last 2 minutes of baking
NOTE: I steam vegetables rather than boil in water to preserve more nutrients and I think it the vegetables have a brighter color. New to steaming? Check out How to Steam Vegetables
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