Lately I think I’ve become the queen of the appetizers. But as I mentioned in a previous blog my condo community hosts “happy hour” every Thursday and a bunch of us get together to eat some appetizers and drink some wine. It’s been a hoot. I promise I won’t solely be blogging about appetizers but I have to include this one. I’ve been wanting to make this for some time now and was so glad I did. It was so yummy and a nice departure from the usual varieties of chips and dips.
This appetizer is not only tasty but so colorful it brightens up any table. And a lot of it can be prepared ahead of time, which I did. That way the assembly doesn’t seem quite so overwhelming. So let’s talk vegetable pizza.
Lesson Learned 1 – Chop the veggies ahead of time: I found that to be a lifesaver. I chopped the veggies and put them in refrigerator bags. Then when it came time to assemble the pizza I just opened the bags and sprinkled them on the crust. It was a snap.
Lesson Learned 2 – This is a great refrigerator cleaning appetizer: I had a bunch of left over veggies in my refrigerator and so I decided to use them. I had a bag of carrot coins that I put into my mini food processor and pulsed to shred them. I had a couple of pieces of different kinds of peppers and I just diced those up. And I had a jar with some roasted red pepper marinated in olive oil and garlic and I chopped some of that up. It was great.
Lesson Learned 3 – To the best of your ability, pinch together the perforations in the crescent roll dough: This recipe uses refrigerated crescent roll dough as the crust. Do not separate the dough into pieces. Roll the dough out and pinch together the perforations to form as flat of a continuous base as possible. You can still see the faint outline of the individual pieces, as seen in the picture below, but that won’t matter once you apply the toppings.
The rest is easy. Just mix the cream cheese “sauce” and apply it to the dough, sprinkle on the toppings, cut and serve. I know you’ll enjoy this one!
Vegetable Pizza...
INGREDIENTS:
1 can refrigerated crescent roll dough
1 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
1 package dry ranch dressing mix
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup chopped scallions (approximately 3)
1/4 cup shredded carrots
1/2 yellow pepper, diced
1/2 green pepper, diced
6-8 baby tomatoes, chopped and drained
1/4 cup marinated roasted red pepper, chopped
1/2 cup broccoli florets, chopped small
1/2 – 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 tsp. garlic fleur de sel, optional
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 375. Roll out the crescent roll dough onto a 9/13 pan covered with parchment paper. Pinch together the perforations to form one continuous crust. Bake for 12 minutes and cool for 15 minutes.
Mix together the cream cheese, dressing mix and mayonnaise. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust leaving a small amount of room around the edges. Sprinkle with scallions, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, roasted red pepper and cheddar cheese. Sprinkle the flour de sel lightly on top.
Using a pizza cutter, cut into squares. Plate and serve.
Spread On The Cream Cheese Mixture
Add The Scallions
Add The Carrots
Add The Tomatoes
Add The Green And Yellow Peppers
Add The Broccoli Florets
Add The Cheese
You Betcha Can Make This! 
Reblogged this on You Betcha Can Make This! and commented:
So sorry I have not been able to maintain my one recipe a week for a couple of weeks. It’s the beginning of summer and with graduations and weddings it’s been a little bit of a challenge. So I thought I would take this opportunity and reblog one of my more popular posts. This is a great cold appetizer for your summer parties and one that you don’t see that often anymore. I went to a party last week and someone made this and I thought, wow – this is a great appetizer. So I hope this helps you with your summer plans.
I intend to be back in the drivers seat in a couple of weeks. Until then, enjoy this reblog!
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