Courgette, Chilli and Mint Pizza

Name: Courgette, Chilli and Mint Pizza
Yield: Makes 2 30 cm/12 in pizzas
Ingredients: ½ quantity pizza dough; fine ground semolina, for sprinkling; 30 ml /2 tbsp chopped fresh mint; 2 medium courgettes (zucchini), 1 green and 1 yellow, if possible; Parmesan, for shaving; 5 ml /1 tsp dried chilli flakes; rind of half a lemon, finely grated; salt and ground black pepper; 45 ml /3 tbsp olive oil; 1 medium red onion, very finely sliced

Preparation info

Makes
2
30 cm 12 in pizzas

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Wood-fired Oven Cookbook

By Holly Jones and David Jones

Published 2016

About

Courgettes — or zucchini — cook really well on pizzas, especially if you use a potato peeler or mandolin to cut them into very thin ribbons. The intense heat from the wood-fired oven cooks them very quickly, giving them a flavourful charring, but because they have a high water content, they don’t dry out.

Ingredients

2 medium courgettes (zucchini), 1 green and 1 yellow, if possi

Vegetarian
Pizza

Method

Build up the fire in the oven until it is about 400°C/750°F, this will take about 60 minutes. When it is up to temperature, push the fire to the back of the oven with a metal peel or coal hook, and keep the oven door closed.
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