It’s a pizza party!!! In our household pizza is a weekly ritual and my boys enjoy helping out in the kitchen. Normally, i utilize my bread machine to create my dough whether it contains spelt, stone ground whole grain or just plain bread flour. I tend to mix it up a bit. While the dough is rising in covered mixing bowls, i make the homemade marinara sauce in the meantime. Once the dough is set, i toss it to the desired diameter. Then, i have the boys place the topping on the dough and then slide it onto my pizza stone. Mmmmm!! The flavors between the sauce and the pizza are so heavenly. Nothing beats homemade!! While my husband and i have more of an adventurous palate, the boys enjoy the classic cheese or pepperoni style. For the first time over the summer, i decided to go with purple potatoes, bacon bits and caramelized onions and OH MY…..it was the bomb!! So, so delicious!! This definitely is our favorite style of pizza. Try them, try them! You may like them!! Enjoy.
Not only do they look beautiful and delicious, purple potatoes have great health benefits. That deep blue-purple color is a sign of antioxidant richness. Potatoes are a vegetable that provides wonderful health benefits. They have moderate fat and calories, are full of vitamin C and B6, and provide a high dose of potassium, an essential nutrient we often get too little of. They are recently recognized for their potential to lower blood pressure, especially the purple varieties. The virtues of this earthly purple gem for summertime is that they are delightful food for grilling and they shine in soups. They cook and sautee quickly while maintaining a perfectly crisp outside and full of flavor. So, the next time you see this type of potato, pick it up and try them out. You’ll be pleasantly surprised by the texture and taste factor.
Serves: 12 slices
INGREDIENTS:
3-4 purple potatoes, roasted and finely sliced
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, finely sliced
2 garlic cloves, smashed and sliced
1 tbsp dried rosemary, or fresh
1 tbsp dried thyme, or fresh
3 ounces cooked bacon, chopped into bits
1/2 cup fresh shredded mozzarella
INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Make sure pizza stone is placed on the bottom rack.
For the bacon, you could either pan fry or microwave, then chop into tiny bits. Let cool.
In a medium sized saucepan, roast the sliced potatoes with olive oil, garlic and the onions until fragrant and onions are translucent. Add the herbs, cook for another 2-3 minutes. Remove from the burner and set aside.
Toss and/or roll out dough to the desired size, about 1/8 of an inch. Make sure you have some flour or cornmeal underneath so it won’t stick.
Drizzle olive oil and any other seasonings over the dough. Place the pan roasted ingredients on top of the dough. Sprinkle with mozzarella, bacon bits, fresh herbs, sea salt and black pepper, to taste.
Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the dough is golden brown and cheese is bubbly.
Remove from the oven and let cool for easier slicing. Then enjoy!
NUTRITIONAL CONTENT: (per slice) Calories 64; Total Fat 5.3g; Cholesterol 8mg; Sodium 164mg; Total Carbohydrates 1.4g; Protein 2.8g; Calcium 1%, Vitamin C 2% and Iron 3%.
Ever wish your favorite comfort food had a bit more pizzazz? It may be high time to diversify from your average meat and potatoes dinner, and this brightly colored vegetable is just the thing. The skin of the purple potato provides a shock of color that can snap us out of our yellow- and red-skinned comas, and boost our health at the same time.The flesh of these colorful nightshades, praised recently in Mark Bittman’s New York Times column
On Growing (And Eating Potatoes), come in many blue and purple varieties, though the Purple Viking and Purple Majesty are two of the most popular for their intense color. They have deep violet, ink-colored skin, and the flesh inside ranges from solid blue to speckled. Perhaps best of all, they taste just like the good old potato that we like so much.
Unearth Healthy Color We know that blueberries are uniquely advantageous to health because of the pigment in the skin – that deep blue-purple color is a sign of antioxidant richness. Is the same true for a potato hued with blue? Absolutely. While blueberries, particularly wild blueberries, have the high skin-to-pulp ratio and deep color that makes them an antioxidant leader, the antioxidant anthocyanin, responsible for this color, is also behind the skin color of the purple potato. It’s found in other foods, too, like cabbage and eggplant.While potatoes are challenged with a soiled reputation due to our over-love of the fried variety, potatoes are a vegetable that provides wonderful health benefits. They have moderate fat and calories, are full of vitamins C and B6, and provide a high dose of potassium, an essential nutrient we often get too little of.Thanks to anthocyanins, the Purple Viking, a white-fleshed potato that Bittman describes as having “a purple skin with pink splashes, as pretty as it sounds” can be depended upon to deliver the anti-cancer, heart-healthy, anti-aging benefits that most deeply colored fruit and veggies do. In fact, they have been recently recognized for their potential to
lower blood pressure. Bittman extols the virtues of this earthly purple gem for summer because, he says, they are a delightful food for the grill, and they shine in soups. They also cook and sauté quickly, maintain a perfectly crisp outside, and are full of flavor. – See more at: http://www.wildblueberryhealthblog.com/2012/04/dig-in-purple-potatoes-have-vibrant.html#sthash.gsCByDgC.dpuf
Ever wish your favorite comfort food had a bit more pizzazz? It may be high time to diversify from your average meat and potatoes dinner, and this brightly colored vegetable is just the thing. The skin of the purple potato provides a shock of color that can snap us out of our yellow- and red-skinned comas, and boost our health at the same time.The flesh of these colorful nightshades, praised recently in Mark Bittman’s New York Times column
On Growing (And Eating Potatoes), come in many blue and purple varieties, though the Purple Viking and Purple Majesty are two of the most popular for their intense color. They have deep violet, ink-colored skin, and the flesh inside ranges from solid blue to speckled. Perhaps best of all, they taste just like the good old potato that we like so much.
Unearth Healthy Color We know that blueberries are uniquely advantageous to health because of the pigment in the skin – that deep blue-purple color is a sign of antioxidant richness. Is the same true for a potato hued with blue? Absolutely. While blueberries, particularly wild blueberries, have the high skin-to-pulp ratio and deep color that makes them an antioxidant leader, the antioxidant anthocyanin, responsible for this color, is also behind the skin color of the purple potato. It’s found in other foods, too, like cabbage and eggplant.While potatoes are challenged with a soiled reputation due to our over-love of the fried variety, potatoes are a vegetable that provides wonderful health benefits. They have moderate fat and calories, are full of vitamins C and B6, and provide a high dose of potassium, an essential nutrient we often get too little of.Thanks to anthocyanins, the Purple Viking, a white-fleshed potato that Bittman describes as having “a purple skin with pink splashes, as pretty as it sounds” can be depended upon to deliver the anti-cancer, heart-healthy, anti-aging benefits that most deeply colored fruit and veggies do. In fact, they have been recently recognized for their potential to
lower blood pressure. Bittman extols the virtues of this earthly purple gem for summer because, he says, they are a delightful food for the grill, and they shine in soups. They also cook and sauté quickly, maintain a perfectly crisp outside, and are full of flavor. – See more at: http://www.wildblueberryhealthblog.com/2012/04/dig-in-purple-potatoes-have-vibrant.html#sthash.gsCByDgC.dpuf
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