Sunny's Avenue J Pizza

Submitted by Melcat

"I got this from food network on Sunny Anderson's show Cooking for Real. It's a delicious recipe and it's so simple! The recipe calls for focaccia but I used a persian loaf and it worked great."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 2 pizzas
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 1 cup water
• 1⁄4 cup white wine vinegar
• 1⁄2 ounce mushroom
• 1 piece focaccia bread
• 1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 8 ounces buffalo mozzarella
• 1⁄2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 4 garlic cloves (roughly chopped)
• 20 pepperoni slices
• 1⁄3 cup shredded parmesan cheese
• 2 cups fresh basil leaves

directions

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
2. Put the mushrooms in a saucepan with the white wine vinegar and cook until theyre just about tender and drain the vinegar out.
3. Slice the bread to create 2 pizzas and put them crust side up on an oiled baking sheet.
4. In a bowl, squeeze the tomatoes and break them up by hand then place on the pizza halves.
5. Pull the pieces of buffalo mozzarella from the ball and place on the pizzas.
6. Top with the mushrooms, shredded mozarella, garlic and pepperoni.
7. Bake until the cheese is melted and crust is crispy, about 15-20 minutes.
8. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with the fresh basil and parmesan.

Reviews

[Karen Elizabeth]

This felt like a weekend treat on a week night! Very easy to prepare, for the pizza base I used chef#324136 s Recipe #234105, made previously and frozen for future use. Tomatoes are mentioned in the directions but not in the ingredients, so I used the last of some tomato-onion sauce I had in the fridge, I make my own tomato sauce and there is generally some to be found when I need it! Otherwise, I made as directed. I'm not a mushroom lover, but these were very good prepared in this fashion. I forgot to add the extra parmesan, but this was already a meal and a half, excellent as was! Made for PAC Fall 2009, thank you, Melcat!