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Recipe : **** Eggplant Pizza with Fresh Pesto and Pine Nuts

Eggplant Pizza with Fresh Pesto and Pine Nuts
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Course:
Main Dish

Practical information

  • Prep time
    30 min
  • Cooking
    30 min
  • Ready in
    1 h
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
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Categories

Budget:
friendly
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Category:
Pasta Bread and Rice
Tags:
Eggplant, nuts, pizza

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • a nice bunch of fresh basil
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 2 large eggplants
  • 1 tablespoon pine nuts
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • a bunch of fresh mint
  • salt
  • flour
  • olive oil
  • 50 g pine nuts
  • 50 g parmesan freshly grated
  • 500 g pizza dough
  • 100 ml olive oil

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Making the pesto
  • 2
    Start by chopping your garlic clove. Add the pine nuts and crush together. Then add the basil leaves washed and dried, the olive oil and parmesan. Mix well and set aside.
  • 3
    Making the topping and the pizza
  • 4
    Wash and slice the eggplants (about1/4 inch thick). Brush them with olive oil on both sides, sprinkle with salt and then cook them on a gril (or broil), (4 mns on each side, or more if needed, check regularly), and set them aside.
  • 5
    Preheat your oven at 420ºF.
  • 6
    Roll your dough into the shape you like and prick it making small holes with a fork. Place it on the heated pizza stone if using one, or on a baking sheet. Brush with olive oil and precook it for 15 mns.
  • 7
    Take out and then spread the pesto on top. Layer the eggplants on top. Add slices of garlic between the egglant slices and top with pine nuts. Place in the oven for 5 more mns.
  • 8
    Serve with mint leaves and extra pine nuts.
  • Ready !