Zucchini Mini Pizzas

Name: Zucchini Mini Pizzas
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: Round zucchini 1.1 lbs; Fior di latte mozzarella cheese 4.4 oz; Tomato purée ½ cup; Oregano to taste; Fine salt to taste; Black pepper to taste; Extra virgin olive oil to taste; Mint 6 leaves

Gluten Free
Vegetarian

Difficulty: Easy
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Makes: 12 pieces
Cost: Low

PRESENTATION

With zucchini mini pizzas, you are about to enter the world of easy, quick, and very tasty recipes! This is a vegetarian appetizer, which is nothing like traditional pizza dough, fried pizzelle, and mini red pizzas! The name is actually a tribute to the ingredients used to dress them: mozzarella and tomato. The base is entirely vegetarian: a delicious round zucchini from which you cut discs seasoned just like a small margherita pizza. You can enjoy them as a colorful and tasty appetizer, an original finger food everyone will appreciate. A bit of color, a touch of revisited history mixed with creativity and the desire to surprise your guests: these are the ingredients for preparing zucchini mini pizzas! All that's left is to try a tasty variant: eggplant mini pizzas!

Many other zucchini appetizers await you here:

Zucchini Rolls with Prosciutto and Robiola
Zucchini Rolls
Zucchini Rolls in Puff Pastry
Zucchini and Shrimp Rolls
Zucchini Pizzaiola
Baked Zucchini
Zucchini Frittata

INGREDIENTS
Ingredients for about 12 mini pizzas: Round zucchini 1.1 lbs (500 g); Fior di latte mozzarella cheese 4.4 oz (125 g); Tomato purée ½ cup (120 g); Oregano to taste; Fine salt to taste; Black pepper to taste; Extra virgin olive oil to taste; Mint 6 leaves

Preparation

How to prepare Zucchini Mini Pizzas

To prepare the zucchini mini pizzas, slice them into 3/8 inch slices 1 and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet 2. Drizzle with a little olive oil 3.

Season with salt and pepper 4. Bake in a preheated convection oven for 15 minutes at 390°F. Meanwhile, cut the mozzarella and let it drain 5. Season the tomato sauce with salt and oil 6.

Mix 7 and when the zucchini is precooked, top them leaving the edges clear 8. Tear the mozzarella by hand and place it on top of the zucchini 9.

Bake for another 5 minutes 10 just enough time to melt the mozzarella 11. Your zucchini mini pizzas are ready, garnish with hand-torn mint before serving 12.