Summer Squash Pizza With Goat Cheese And Walnuts

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• all-purpose flour, for dusting
• 6 ounces pizza dough
• 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes
• salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 small onion, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded part-skim-milk
• 1 teaspoon summer savory, chopped
• 1/4 lb summer squash, thinly sliced on a mandoline
• 2 ounces fresh goat cheese, crumbled
• 2 tablespoons walnuts, chopped toasted

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 500. preheat a pizza stone.
• 2 in a small bowl, combine the 1 tablespoon of olive oil with the minced garlic and let stand.
• 3 on a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough to form a 12-inch round, 1/4 inch thick. transfer the round to a lightly floured pizza peel.
• 4 leaving a 1/2-inch border of dough, brush the round with the garlic oil and sprinkle with crushed red pepper, salt and black pepper.
• 5 scatter the onion slices over the round; top with the mozzarella and savory.
• 6 arrange the squash slices on top in a single layer, overlapping them slightly.
• 7 dot with the crumbled goat cheese.
• 8 slide the pizza onto the hot stone and bake for about 5 minutes, until the bottom is crisp and the squash is slightly browned. transfer the pizza to a work surface.
• 9 sprinkle with the walnuts and drizzle with olive oil. cut into wedges and serve.