Jay's Favorite: Grilled Pesto Pizza Recipe - Cooking Index
Jay's Favorite: Grilled Pesto Pizza Recipe - Cooking Index
Here is an absolutely fabulous pizza, and you can do it on the grill! The sauce is a classic pesto, which, of course, makes everything taste good. To be honest, if you feel entirely too lazy to do your own pizza shells you can go with a ready-made brand found in most grocery stores. Make a lot of pesto sauce. You can use it many different ways and it freezes well.
Courses: Pizzas| Pre-made or homemade pizza shell | ||
| Thinly-sliced fresh ripe tomatoes | ||
| Pine nuts | ||
| Red pepper flakes | ||
| Pesto Sauce | ||
| 6 cups | 240g / 8.5oz | Fresh basil leaves |
| 2 cups | 474ml | Olive oil |
| 3/4 cup | 177ml | Pine nuts or walnuts |
| 3/4 cup | 109g / 3.8oz | Grated Parmesan cheese |
| 10 | Fresh garlic cloves | |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Freshly-ground black pepper |
| Salt - to taste |
For the Pesto Sauce: Put all the ingredients into a food processor and blend well together. Refrigerate until needed.
When you are ready to have one of the world's greatest pizzas, this is how you build it. On top of a pre-made (or homemade) pizza shell, place:
1st - A generous layer of Pesto Sauce
2nd - Thinly sliced fresh ripe tomatoes
3rd - A handful of pine nuts
4th - 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Cook it on a hot grill. Bake the pizza lid-down, away from the flames for about 15 minutes. If you have a warming rack, that is the best place to do it. The pizza is ready when the pine nuts have browned and the oil in the pesto is slightly sizzling.
Don't put too much topping on the shell -- the idea is to create a balance between the crisp shell and the fragrant toppings. The flavors and textures should work in harmony.
This recipe yields ?? servings.
Source:
Barbecue Headquarters at http://www.bbqhq.com
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