Pizza with Butternut Squash

I know, butternut squash on pizza sounds weird right? So does hockey in July, but here we are! Tonight starts the exhibition games to the play in series for the weirdest NHL season ever! We needed a weird pizza for hockey night in July! And it's a good one!

Go Habs Go!!!

Ingredients:

1/4 - 1/3 cup pizza sauce

1 tbsps olive oil

1 tsp red wine vinegar

a good handful of chopped kale

1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella

some sliced red pepper 

pepperoni

black pepper

red pepper flakes

spiralized butternut squash

some cherry tomato halves

fresh basil leaves to garnish

pizza dough for 1 large pizza (I used this recipe ↓)

https://hotandcoldrunningmom.blogspot.com/2020/07/pizza-day-in-canada.html

This is the butternut squash I used. Just defrost one frozen pre-cooked nest and pat dry with a paper towel. Of course you can always spiralize and cook your own.

Once you've made the dough it's time to top this pizza!

Toss the olive oil, red wine vinegar and chopped kale together.

Spread pizza sauce on the dough then sprinkle on the kale. Use most of the cheese to "hide" the kale!

Scatter the red pepper, pepperoni and cherry tomatoes. Now take strands of spiralized squash and make a few loose piles on the pizza. Give them a few grinds of black pepper and some red pepper flakes to taste. 

Throw on the last of the shredded mozzarella and give the whole thing a good drizzle of olive oil.

Bake at 515°F for 10-11 minutes, on a pizza stone if you've got one.

Fresh basil leaves to serve and this one is ready to go!