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4 Comments · August 13, 2010

Quick and Easy Insalata Pita Pizza for One? Yes, Please.

Most nights I feel like cooking.  Not just cooking, I feel like having an adventure in the kitchen.  Tuesday just wasn't one of those nights.  I was tired and a bit under-the-weather with allergies and felt more like a couch potato than a wildly creative chef.  So, the only adventurous cooking going on in my place was coming straight from the Food Network.   To my dismay, Giada's delicious creations didn't jump through my TV and place themselves on my fine IKEA china.  So, it was time to take action.

I summoned enough of the adventurous cook in me to walk to the kitchen.  Then, what I can only describe as the "Dance of Indecision" took place.  And it went a little like this: open fridge, look around. Shut fridge. Open cabinets, look around. Shut cabinets. Open fridge.  Shut fridge.  Open cabinets. Shut Cabinets. You get the idea.  Barren and overstocked fridge alike; it's not always easy to be creative when the adventurous cook in you has decided to go on strike.  Thank goodness the "Dance of Indecision" only went on about seven minutes before I gathered some staples and began cooking. So, if you have 20 minutes and a few key ingredients, you can use your less adventurous, more endearingly lackadaisical side to create one delightful little insalata pita pizza.

This simple pita pizza offers all the crispiness, cheesiness, and heartiness of your average pizza, and the cool insalata topping provides a zip of tangy flavor that rounds out the richness of the garlic, shallot, and mozzarella.

 


Insalata Pita Pizza (Serves 1 so double, triple, or quadruple as you please)

1 7-inch pita (can be whole wheat or white)

1 small shallot, finely sliced

1 garlic clove, minced

⅓ cup shredded mozzarella (I used 2% mozz to lighten it up)

1 cup loosely packed baby arugula or preferred greens

½ cup quartered cherry tomatoes

A few big basil leaves, shredded

1 tbsp olive oil

2 tsp red wine vinegar

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

1. Preheat oven to 475 degrees.

2. Top pita with mozzarella cheese, garlic, and shallot slices. Place in oven (I placed directly on the rack, but you can use a baking pan to keep it neat) and bake for 8 minutes or until pita is turning golden brown and cheese is blistered and bubbly.

3. While the pitas are getting toasty in the oven, whisk together the olive oil and red wine vinegar in a bowl.  Add the arugula, cherry tomatoes, and basil to the vinaigrette and toss to coat.  Top with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, if desired.

Insalata Pita Pizza for One.

4. Place your pita pizza on a plate, top with insalata mixture, and cut into quarters. Enjoy!


 

 

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  1. sbandel says

    August 13, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    Those pizza's look sooo good!!! I am definitely going to make one and give it a go. I also completely understand the dance of indecision, it seems to happen to me every time I take a trip to the kitchen. I was wondering if you had any advice for a novice cook trying to get on her way to being a good cook. I have tried finding ideas on-line and in cook books but I really do not have a clue where to begin when starting out. Thanks!

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  2. art paintings gallery.com says

    August 14, 2010 at 3:49 am

    You cooking look great.

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  3. Ashley: Confessions of a Foodie says

    August 15, 2010 at 10:15 am

    sbandel, I hope you enjoy the pita pizza recipe! As far as beginning to cook, I started out just playing around with recipes that looked appetizing to me. Find a cook book with beautiful pictures (to me, no cook book is complete without pictures!) -- sit down, flip through the pages, and find a recipe that inspires you to move to the kitchen and begin cooking. Challenge yourself to move out of your cooking comfort zone and remember that mistakes in the kitchen should be appreciated as ways of strengthening your culinary skills. Happy cooking!

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  4. happygoluckygal says

    June 28, 2012 at 9:23 am

    oh.. this looks like a treat:):):)

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