Recipe - Fit For Life Pizza

DOUGH
1 pack Yeast, dry active
1 cup Flour, pastry, whole wheat
1 One half cup Flour, white, unbleached
1 cup Hot water (120 deg F +)
3 tablespoon Olive oil
Ground rock salt to taste

FILLING
One half cup Olive oil
4 small Eggplant, Japanese; thinly
cut or sliced up lengthwise
2 md Zucchini; thinly cut or sliced up
lengthwise
One half pound Mushrooms; thinly cut or sliced up
Thin rounds of onion
1 teaspoon Garlic; crushed
1 teaspoon Corn meal
One half cup Pesto
1 cup Tomatoes, sundried
2 lg Tomatoes; thinly cut or sliced up
One half cup Olives, Greek; chopped
One fourth cup Basil, fresh; chopped OR
1 teaspoon Basil, dried
One fourth teaspoon Oregano (optional)

1. In a large bowl, combine yeast and half a cup of each of the flours.
Stir in hot water and olive oil.
Stir in additional half cup of each of the flours and salt to taste, if
desired. Knead until smooth and elastic, adding additional flour if dough
remains too sticky. Knead for at elast 5 minutes. Cover dough and allow to
rest while you prepare filling.

2. Preheat oven to 500 deg F. Lightly oil tow cookie sheets with olive
oil. Arrange eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms, and onion slices on cookie
sheet. Combine rfeamining olive oil with crushed garlic and brush cut or sliced up
vegetables well. Place in oven and grill for 5 minutes.

3. While vegetables are grilling, flour work surface and roll dough into
a large, thin sixteeninch round to be baked on a pizza pan, or for a
change of pace, roll dough into a thin rectangle to fit a cookie sheet.
Brush cookie sheet or pan lightly with olive oil and dust with corn meal.
Tansfer dough to baking pan.

4. Remove grilled vegetables from oven. Brush crust generously with
pesto. Layer vegetables on pesto, beginning with eggplant slices, topping
with zucchini, and then adding mushrooms and onion rings. Top with sun
dried tomatoes. Add slices of fresh tomato.
Sprinkle with chopped olives, fresh or dry basil and oregano.

5. Place pizza on bottom rack of 500 deg F oven and bake for 15 to 20
minutes, or until crust is lightly browned. Remove from oven and cut into
slices or squares.

American Vegetarian Cookbook by Marilyn Diamond/MM by Dianne Smith/DEEANNE

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini