Zucchini Pizza Recipe

Zucchini Pizza (by Smitten Kitchen)

For 1 pizza

• 8 oz. ball of pizza dough
• 1 medium zucchini or summer squash, about 1/2 lb.
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3 oz. Gruyere cheese, coarsely grated
• 1 generous tablespoon breadcrumbs
• Drizzle of olive oil

Place a pizza stone on an oven rack set at the top 1/3 of the oven. Preheat the oven to 500° F.

Trim off the round end of the zucchini and using the other end as a handle, shred the zucchini on the coarse holes of a box grater. Squeeze the shredded zucchini in your hands to remove the water and transfer a fistful at a time to a small mixing bowl. Add the salt and mix well. Let sit for 20-30 minutes so that more water is released. Squeeze the zucchini again until you get out as much water as possible. Mix with the Gruyere cheese.

Mix the breadcrumbs with a little olive oil, just enough to moisten and clump them together a little.

Stretch the dough onto a parchment paper-lined flexible cutting board. Top with the zucchini-cheese mixture then sprinkle on the breadcrumbs. Slide the pizza (still on the parchment paper) onto the pizza stone and bake for 10 minutes, until the cheese has melted and the breadcrumbs are golden. Use tongs to slide the pizza with the parchment paper from the pizza stone onto a cutting board. Slice and eat.. :)

Good luck & Enjoy..