Zucchini & Zucchini Flower Pizza
Although we do not have a huge vegetable garden here in Umbria, the month of July always brings a surplus of zucchini and I find myself going through my recipe files daily trying to come up with new ideas to use up all of our zucchini bounty. Between the round zucchini I stuff, the regular long zucchini that I fry, grill, stuff, or saute, I find we are picking and eating zucchini almost daily. Then there are also the zucchini flowers…………. Although I could eat fried zucchini flowers daily, I realize that would not be great for my health or my waistline! One day when we decided to fire up the pizza oven, I picked a couple of baby zucchini from the garden along with a handful of gorgeous bright zucchini flowers for my pizza. I skipped the tomato sauce, brushing the crust simply with olive oil before adding my toppings and ended up with a delicious, light tasting pizza. Because zucchini are not the most exciting tasting vegetable, I added a little sauteed pancetta, and used some Taleggio cheese along with the mozzarella. Taleggio is one of my favorite Italian cheeses and has a great flavor, and is creamy smooth. All the pizza needed was some cracked black pepper and a sprinkling of red pepper flakes and I had a great summer pizza I’d definitely make again!
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