Once a week, I usually I cook up a fresh batch of vegetable tomato sauce. It's very useful to have around the kitchen and can be used as a base for many dishes. To make it, I roughly chop one large onion, one large carrot, one red pepper and about 4 good sized ripe tomatoes. Saute the veggies for a few minutes, throw in the tomatoes, a bit of salt and some water or vegetable stock. I let this simmer on the stove for about 1/2 an hour and when it's cooled down I whip out my favourite kitchen tool - an immersion blender and puree the sauce. This is the only way my daughter will ever get these particular vegetables into her body. She has the uncanny ability to be able to sense the tiniest piece of onion in any dish, separate it and spit it out. I happen to adore onions so I thought I would make a cheeseless pizza covered in slightly caramelized onions, tomato, garlic and a few other seasonings. It turned out to be amazing. I'm in the process of eating the entire thing as I write and it was so simple to make!
Tomato and Caramelized Onion Pizza
one red onion
one large tomato
1 large clove garlic
1/2 tsp basil
1/8 tsp thyme
1/3 cup of tomato (vegetable) sauce
olive oil (approximately 3-4 Tbsp)
salt
nutritional yeast (optional)
pizza dough
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
2. Chop the tomato and combine in a bowl with the minced garlic, a bit of sea salt and about one tablespoon of olive oil. Let the flavours combine while you prepare the onions.
3. Sautee the onions in olive oil along with the thyme until soft and slightly browned and then turn off the heat.
4. Stretch out your pizza dough and brush with olive oil. Evenly distribute the onions and the tomato mixture. I used a teaspoon to distribute the tomato vegetable sauce all over the pizza (basically around all the spaces left by the veggies).
5. Sprinkle with nutritional yeast and a tiny bit of sea salt and then pop it into the oven for about 20 minutes or until it's done how you like it.
6. Eat!
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for a while now and decided to make muffins for a well deserved afternoon tea break. I love these cake recipes that come together so quickly with no beaters or mixers etc. Just combine wet and dry ingredients and pop in the oven, although this one did require a quck spin in the blender for the wet ingredients.
