This easy recipe sheds new light on two foods you might think you know pretty well — broccoli and pizza — essentially hitting the “refresh” button on both of them. Whirring broccoli in a food processor with a generous handful of fresh basil leaves, some good cheese and olive oil gives the stalwart everyday vegetable a moment of glory as a flavorful emerald-green pesto. It’s delicious to toss with pasta, spread on sandwiches or serve with crostini, but here it is used as the base topping for a pizza that upends your notion of what a pie can be.
This is not the usual tomato-and-mozzarella variety that all too often is laden with grease. Here, that gorgeous broccoli pesto is spread onto whole-grain flatbread, sprinkled with chewy sun-dried tomatoes and topped with an egg that cooks to runny perfection as the whole thing bakes and the crust crisps.
You wind up with satisfying individual pizzas that are a breeze to whip up for a rush-hour dinner.
Flatbread Pizzas With Broccoli Pesto, Sun-Dried Tomato and Egg
4 servings
If the sun-dried tomatoes are especially dry, place them in a bowl and cover with hot water to soak for 10 minutes, then drain and cut into slivers. From nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.