Roasted Zucchini Pesto Pizza
Garlic, oregano and a homemade pesto make this Roasted Zucchini Pizza a summer recipe that you do not want to miss!
Roasted Zucchini on Pizza... With Homemade Pesto!
This pizza was inspired by Jaime at Mom's Test Kitchen, who has a fun and summery recipe for a zucchini pizza with pesto and cherry tomatoes.
We made two main changes to Jamie's recipe.
She used grape tomatoes, but we had a few beautiful tomatoes left from a generous neighbor, (and I love whole slices of tomato on pizza) so we went that route and just let the slices roast as the pizza cooked.
Second, we're more of thick crust pizza people, so we used a par-baked pizza crust rather than the tortilla, as Jamie suggests.
If you had some roasted veggies on hand though, the tortilla pizza is a great idea for a quick individual meal.
The zucchini is really the star of the show here. (Sorry pesto.) The smell of oregano and garlic roasting with the zucchini was amazing! And once they came out of the oven, it was hard to save the roasted zucchini for the pizza!
But the pizza was definitely worth the wait.
Roasted Zucchini Pesto Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 (12 inch) par-baked pizza crust
- 1 small zucchini, sliced into ¼ inch rounds
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ c basil pesto (recipe below)
- ⅔ c mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1 tomato, sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- In a large bowl, mix together zucchini slices, garlic, oregano, red pepper flakes, salt, and olive oil. Arrange slices in a single layer on a baking sheet. Roast for 25-30 min, until soft. (The roasted zucchini can be made ahead of time and refrigerated until ready to use.)
- Spread a thin layer of pesto over your pizza crust. Top with cheese, tomato slices, and roasted zucchini.
- Bake pizza on a baking sheet or pre-heated pizza stone for 5-7 minutes, or until cheese is melted and starting to brown.
- Remove from oven and let set 2-3 minutes before serving.
Nutty Basil Pesto
Ingredients
- 1 c fresh basil leaves packed
- ¼ c Parmesan cheese, grated
- ¼ c walnuts
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Place all ingredients, except olive oil, in the bowl of your food processor. Pulse on high a few seconds.
- Add olive oil 1 tablespoon at a time, pulsing between each addition, until the pesto is the consistency of a spreadable paste.
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Sarah founded Curious in 2010 as a way to save her recipe creations and share culinary experiences. Her love for cultural cuisines was instilled early by her French Canadian Grandmother. Her experience in the kitchen and in recipe development comes from over 10 years working in professional kitchens. She has traveled extensively and enjoys bringing the flavors of her travels back to create easy-to-make recipes.
Wow!! So fresh and tasty looking!! GREAT SRC choice this month! YUMM!!
I'm so glad you liked the recipe! Y'alls look amazing!! 🙂
What a great choice for this month's assignment! I always use zucchini as a topping for our pizzas, so I understand exactly why you apologized to the pesto 😉
This sounds like my kind of pizza! Great pick this month 🙂
You can never go wrong with pizza!! Great pick~ Lynn
That pizza looks absolutely amazing! I'm a huge fan of zucchini and I never would have thought to put it on pizza! Great SRC pick!
Oh wow! This sounds incredible! Love that you added pesto to a pizza and that it's a meatless main dish! YUM!
What a delicious looking pizza! Great pick!
This looks delicious! :0)
Your zucchini look so large, I thought at first they were eggplant! What a beautiful SRC pick to make use of your fantastic bounty of tomatoes and zukes!
That zucchini was a bit of a beast! 🙂
Delish! I'm a sucker for pesto any day, and Jane was just complaining that I don't make pizza enough - CC to the rescue!