Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Pizza
Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Pizza might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe serves 2. For $5.89 per serving, this recipe covers 33% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 49g of protein, 66g of fat, and a total of 1554 calories. 130 people have made this recipe and would make it again. This recipe from A Family Feast requires flour, balsamic vinegar, dried cranberries, and corn meal. Plenty of people really liked this Mediterranean dish. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 50 minutes. With a spoonacular score of 85%, this dish is outstanding. Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Pizza, Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Parmesan Pizza, and Balsamic Brussels Sprouts Bacon Feta Pizza are very similar to this recipe.
Servings: 2
Preparation duration: 10 minutes
Cooking duration: 40 minutes
Ingredients:
½ pound bacon
½ cup balsamic vinegar
6 ounces fresh Brussels sprouts
Corn meal to dust pizza peel
1 teaspoon corn starch, optional
½ cup dried cranberries
Flour to dust counter
Asiago cheese to garnish after pizza is baked
1 pound pizza dough
1 cup mozzarella shredded and divided
¼ cup sugar
Equipment:
sauce pan
frying pan
paper towels
pizza stone
oven
peeler
Cooking instruction summary:
Bring pizza dough to room temperature.Place vinegar, cranberries and sugar in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook down to a creamy consistency, about 20-30 minutes. Should be spreadable like jam. If not thick enough, dissolve corn starch in a few drops of water and add to hot liquid to thicken. Set aside to cool.Place Brussels sprouts in a small pan and cover with water. Place lid on pan, bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer and cook 5 minutes. Then drain.Cut each Brussels sprout in half the long way. Larger sprouts cut into three. Set aside.Cook bacon until not quite crisp and still a little chewy. Drain on paper towels and cut into one inch pieces.Place pizza stone in oven and preheat to 550 degrees or as hot as your oven can get.Dust pizza peel with corn meal.Dust counter with flour and press dough out to at least 14 inches in diameter then place on dusted pizza peel.If the cranberry/vinegar reduction is stiff, transfer to a microwave-safe container, then heat for a few seconds to soften, then top dough with the reduction and cover with half of the mozzarella.Arrange slices of Brussels sprouts and cooked bacon over cheese then top with remaining mozzarella.Bake the pizza for 7-9 minutes or until the bottom is browned and the top is bubbly.Immediately shave some Asiago cheese over the top with a vegetable peeler and cut for serving.
Step by step:
1. Bring pizza dough to room temperature.
2. Place vinegar, cranberries and sugar in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook down to a creamy consistency, about 20-30 minutes. Should be spreadable like jam. If not thick enough, dissolve corn starch in a few drops of water and add to hot liquid to thicken. Set aside to cool.
3. Place Brussels sprouts in a small pan and cover with water.
4. Place lid on pan, bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer and cook 5 minutes. Then drain.
5. Cut each Brussels sprout in half the long way. Larger sprouts cut into three. Set aside.Cook bacon until not quite crisp and still a little chewy.
6. Drain on paper towels and cut into one inch pieces.
7. Place pizza stone in oven and preheat to 550 degrees or as hot as your oven can get.Dust pizza peel with corn meal.Dust counter with flour and press dough out to at least 14 inches in diameter then place on dusted pizza peel.If the cranberry/vinegar reduction is stiff, transfer to a microwave-safe container, then heat for a few seconds to soften, then top dough with the reduction and cover with half of the mozzarella.Arrange slices of Brussels sprouts and cooked bacon over cheese then top with remaining mozzarella.
8. Bake the pizza for 7-9 minutes or until the bottom is browned and the top is bubbly.Immediately shave some Asiago cheese over the top with a vegetable peeler and cut for serving.
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