Veggie Pita Bread Pizza is an easy and simplified option for making pizza at home using pita bread for crust, a no cook pizza sauce and toppings of choice. You can now make you own veggie pizza in 30mins a.k.a faster than ordering a takeout. Plus plenty of options for customizing!!
My kids love this Veggie Pita Bread Pizza and my daughter often requests this for her lunch box. Its such an easy lazy yet delicious option when you are craving pizza. The pita bread makes the perfect crust or pizza base since its not too thin nor too thick and bakes perfect!
For this post, I'm sharing a Vegetarian pizza with no cook pizza sauce. Yes you read it right, no cook!! When I say easy and lazy, I truly mean it!! This pita pizza is very much customizable. So you can switch the toppings or sauce to your choice. You can make it just a cheese pizza or margarita or even with meat toppings. Infact, it is just so apt for "Make your own Pizza" party where you lay down the topping options and kids can make their own pizza and relish it!!
Ingredients for making Veggie Pizza:
- Pizza Base: As the title suggest, we are going to use Pita bread as a pizza base and save tons of effort without comprising on taste or texture of our pizza.
- Pizza Sauce: Combine all the ingredients mentioned for the sauce in a bowl and giving it a good mix and you pizza sauce is ready. Now how easy is that! You can make this sauce ahead of time and it stays good stored airtight in refrigerator for couple of days. for longer use freeze it. You can also use pesto as sauce too!
- Toppings: you can use any veggies of your choice. I've used onions, bell pepper, mushrooms, black olives, grape tomatoes, frozen corn kernels and pickled jalapeños.
- Cheese: The most important! Use good quality mozzarella cheese or any cheese of you choice.
Step by Step Method for making Veggie Pita Bread Pizza:
In a mixing bowl, add all the ingredients listed for pizza sauce - tomato sauce, oregano, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, garlic paste, sugar. Mix well and keep aside. This can be made ahead of time and even frozen.
Line a baking tray with aluminum foil. Preheat the oven to 400° Fahrenheit.
Take to pita bread spread 2 tablespoon pizza sauce on each pita bread followed by half cup of mozzarella cheese (or as much needed).
Add the toppings red onions, red and green bell peppers, mushrooms, corn and black olives, jalapenos and tomatoes.
Sprinkle some salt pepper, oregano and red chili flakes (optional). Transfer it to the lined baking sheet and to the oven and bake it for 15 minutes or until the cheese is melted and starting to brown.
Remove from the oven and let it rest on the tray for another 5 mins. Slice it into 4 triangles and serve immediately. Enjoy!!
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Veggie Pita Bread Pizza
Ingredients
- 4 Greek Pita bread
- ½ cup No Cook Pizza sauce recipe included below
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese or cheese of your choice
- 1 tablespoon oregano or Pizza seasoning
- chilli flakes optional and to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
Pizza Toppings
- ½ red onion sliced
- ½ bell pepper sliced, using mix of red and green
- 2 mushrooms sliced sliced
- 10 cherry tomatoes halved
- pickled jalapenos slices optional and as much needed to taste
- 2-4 tablespoon sweet corn kernels using thawed, frozen.
- 5 olives sliced
Pizza sauce
- 1 15 oz can of tomato sauce or use store bought tomato puree
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon salt and
- ⅛ teaspoon black pepper to taste
- ½ teaspoon of garlic paste or use granulated garlic
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon onion powder or granulated onion, optional
Instructions
To make no cook pizza sauce
- In a mixing bowl, add all the ingredients listed for pizza sauce – tomato sauce, oregano, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, garlic paste, sugar. Mix well and keep aside. This can be made ahead of time and even frozen.
To make Veggie Pita Bread Pizza (Oven):
- Line a baking tray with aluminum foil. Preheat the oven to 400° Fahrenheit.
- Take to pita bread spread 2 tablespoon pizza sauce on each pita bread followed by half cup of mozzarella cheese (or as much needed).
- Add the toppings red onions, red and green bell peppers, mushrooms, corn and black olives, jalapeños and tomatoes.
- Sprinkle some salt pepper, oregano and red chili flakes (optional). Transfer it to the lined baking sheet and to the oven and bake it for 15 minutes or until the cheese is melted and starting to brown.
- Remove from the oven and let it rest on the tray for another 5 mins. Slice it into 4 triangles and serve immediately.
To make Veggie Pita Bread Pizza (Air-fryer):
- Follow exact steps as the oven method to get the pizza ready and then transfer to the air fryer and bake at 370° F for 5-7mins or until the cheese is melted and starting to brown. Slice it into 4 triangles and serve immediately.
Happy Baking!!
Shweta
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