Roasted balsamic cherry tomato pizza with caramelized red onion paste
This summer pizza bursts with flavor! This wholewheat pizza dough, wholesome summer produce. This pizza will blow your mind!
Equipment
- pizza stone or baking tray
Ingredients
- 4 pieces (homemade wholewheat*) pizza dough
Roasted balsamic cherry tomatoes
- 8 cups cherry tomatoes
- 4 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper (to taste)
Caramelized red onion spread
- 3 medium red onion (cut into thin rings)
- 3 clove garlic (whole, peeled)
Garnishing (optional)
- 1 handful arugula leaves
- 1 cup freshly shaved parmesan
- freshly chopped herbs (like thyme, oregano and/or rosemary)
Instructions
Make the pizza dough and let it rise
- Start by making the pizza dough. Since the dough has to rise, this will take the longest. In the meantime you can continue with the garnishing.
Roast the cherry tomatoes
- Preheat the oven to 165C/325F and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Cut larger cherry tomatoes in half before spreading them all out on the prepared baking tray. Now drizzle them with balsamic vinegar and olive oil and add some salt and pepper to them.
- Slide the baking tray in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Make sure the cherry tomatoes don't turn too dark since they will go in the oven again on top of the pizza.
- Leave the oven on an rise the temperature to 240C/465F or as high as your oven will go.
Caramelize the red onions
- Heat up a skillet with a bit of olive oil and add the onions rings. Let them caramelize on low for 10-15 minutes until they are soft and falling apart.
- Now either blend them (in a blender) or just mash them with a fork.
Make tomato sauce (optional)
- When the cherry tomatoes are roasted, blend half of them into a sauce. This is optional, you can also just leave them all whole. Another option is to puree all of them (but then your pizza will look like a regular margherita pizza). Whatever your preference.
Prepare the pizza
- Roll out the pizza dough.
- Spread out the caramelized red onion paste thinly over the pizza bottom.
- Add tomato sauce on top of the onion paste. This is optional. If you decide not to make sauce with half of the roasted cherry tomatoes, skip this part.
- Add the roasted cherry tomatoes on top of the pizza.
- Bake the pizza for 12-15 minutes until the edges are golden brown.
Garnish the pizza
- Garnish the pizza with some arugula leaves and freshly shaved parmesan.Now slice the pizza and it's ready to serve!
Notes
*homemade whole wheat pizza dough
Nutritional information:
the information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist's advice.