Gluten-Free Caprese Pizza
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If you follow my blog, you know that brunch is one of my favorite meals. With Mother’s Day around the corner, I have been contemplating the idea of hosting a brunch with a few close friends. It is a day filled with so much happiness and love, any host wants her brunch to be perfect.
One friend is gluten-free and I’m always on the lookout for tasty recipes she can enjoy. Since Simply Pulp Free Orange Juice is gluten-free, it makes the perfect complement to our quick and easy caprese pizza.
Simply Juices are 100% fruit juices, never from concentrate, never sweetened, with no preservatives, colors or artificial flavors. In fact, the oranges that go into each carafe of Simply Orange are all carefully selected at the peak of ripeness and the majority are still picked by hand.
Did you know you can purchase Simply Juices at Whole Foods while you shop for your other brunch food items? I love Whole Foods because as the world’s leading natural and organic grocer, they have so many gluten-free food options. It makes creating a gluten-free menu a breeze. I can pick up ready-made items like muffins and scones, or the ingredients I need to make recipes all in one trip.
Our caprese pizza is easy to make with gluten-free dough, sliced mozzarella cheese, tomato slices and fresh basil leaves to garnish. The individual portions make it brunch perfect and are so tasty, even those without allergies will devour them.
Gluten-Free Caprese Pizza
Ingredients
- gluten free pizza dough
- 2 small vine-ripened tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 8 oz fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced If you can find the mini logs, they come pre-sliced. Slice the slices in half.
- 2-3 fresh basil leaves
- olive oil
- ground pepper
Instructions
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Preheat oven to your dough's instructions.
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Roll your pizza dough out to about 12" wide, ¼" thick.
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Use a 3 ½" round cookie cutter to cut out rounds in your dough. You will get about 8 rounds and if you re-roll your dough pieces, you can get a 9th round.
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Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and add your dough rounds.
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Brush each lightly with olive oil, then top with 2 slices of fresh mozzarella, and one slice of tomato.
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Bake according to your dough's instructions, cooking until the tops are brown. Be sure and keep an eye on them, the cheese will bubble over the edges. Don't worry, once they cool, you can trim off the excess with kitchen shears.
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Remove from oven when done and let them rest for 2 minutes.
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Sprinkle pizza tops with ground pepper. Roll the basil leaves up, cut them thinly and sprinkle over the pizza tops. Remove pizzas from pan and serve warm.
Fresh fruit and yogurt are naturally gluten-free and Whole Foods carries gluten-free breakfast sausage, doughnuts and other baked goods. These are all great additions to your menu.
Ready to start shopping for your Mother’s Day brunch? Find a Whole Foods near you by visiting this link and for for a limited time leading up to Mother’s Day, 5/2 – 5/15, you can save $0.50 on Simply Orange Juice at Whole Foods.
How do you plan to celebrate the special mothers in your life?
