These tasty little Mini Pizzas feature a delicious baked zucchini crust, with a delicious homemade pizza sauce with a perfect topping mix of mushrooms, veggies, pepperonis, and more.
It’s an incredibly easy recipe to try out and gives perfect results every single time. They make for the perfect appetizers that your family and even guests will enjoy.
This recipe is super versatile, and you can go through the variation ideas listed in this post to customize it according to your preferences.
Want to learn how to make these delicious mini pizzas? Then keep on reading!
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What are Mini Pizzas?
Mini pizzas are delicious snacks or appetizers that look like miniature pizzas! They have the three most important things that make up a pizza: pizza crust, pizza sauce, and pizza toppings.
The crust can be just about anything: from baked vegetables to pizza dough-based crust, or even English muffins!
The pizza sauce is the classic tomato-based sauce that we all love, and you can top it off with your favorite pizza toppings.
But this recipe that I’m sharing with you is special; it features a delicious zucchini base, with homemade pizza sauce, and the perfect pizza toppings. You’re going to absolutely love it!
What Makes This Mini Pizza Recipe Special
This delicious mini pizza recipe features a zucchini crust, with mushroom and pepperoni toppings. This combination is not only healthy but incredibly flavorful too.
Baked zucchini is flavorless, but adding delicious toppings on top makes it the perfect base for mini pizzas so you can enjoy this delicious snack guilt-free!
No need for the added calories and work of making pizza dough, baked zucchinis make for the perfect crust for these little treats.
It’s the perfect appetizer that is not only hearty but healthy and filling too. Delicious appetizers are always crowd-pleasing food. Guest really appreciate the thoughtfulness of catering to their hunger even before the main course arrives.
The addition of an amazingly flavorful blend of Portabella mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs adds so much flavor to the homemade pizza sauce.
I can’t describe how tasty they turned out as well! Reheats perfectly, and is great for school or work lunch boxes.
They also taste amazing when cold and no reheating is necessary. Give it try for yourself, and you will be making it over and over again!
What You Need to Make Mini Pizza at Home
Making this delicious mini pizza recipe at home requires readily available ingredients. Here’s what you need to make them:
- BLENDABELLA Rustic Tuscan: This is a delicious blend of diced portabella mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs that you can buy in a jar and keeps well in the pantry for you to whip these mini pizzas out whenever you want. It includes mushrooms, onions, green peppers, red peppers, garbanzo beans, carrots, and herbs for an incredibly delicious mix.
- Zucchinis: We’ll be needing some zucchinis for the pizza base. Baked zucchinis are flavorless and so this is a great vegetarian option that healthy and tasty at the same time.
- Tomato sauce: You’ll need some tomato sauce for the base of our homemade pizza sauce to make our delicious mini pizzas.
- Sea salt: We’ll need some sea salt to season our pizza sauce to make all the flavors come out and shine.
- Garlic powder: Pizza sauce is incomplete without some garlic, so we’ll be using some garlic powder for that.
- Italian seasoning: This will add the classic Italian flavor we love in pizza sauce to give you a delicious sauce that’s quick and easy to make.
- Mozzarella cheese: We’ll be using some mozzarella cheese as the cheese topping for our mini pizzas, but you can use whichever cheese you like best such as pepper jack, cheddar, gouda, or provolone.
- Mini pepperoni slices: This is the topping we love and that goes well with the veggie and mushroom mix from Blendabella. You can use whichever pizza toppings are your favorite. Check the end of the post for more recipe variation ideas.
How to Make Mini Pizza Step by Step
Making these delicious mini pizzas at home is incredibly simple. Here’s what you need to do to make it:
How to Veggie Pizza Crust for Mini Pizza
Let’s start by prepping the zucchinis for the pizza crust. Rinse and slice zucchini into 35 slices approximately ¼“ [¾ cm] thick and 2.5” [6cm] in diameter. Set aside until ready for use.
How to Make Pizza Sauce and Prep Toppings
Let’s first make our delicious pizza sauce. It’s incredibly easy and all you have to do is combine tomato sauce, sea salt, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning in a small bowl.
Next, stir in a can of BLENDABELLA Rustic Tuscan to it for a deliciously tasty and chunky pizza sauce topping.
How to Assemble and Bake Mini Pizzas
Time to assemble and bake our mini pizzas!
Start by preheating the oven to 350 F (180 C). Layout zucchini slices onto an 18 x 26 baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Next, top each zucchini slice with a rounded tablespoon of BLENDABELLA Rustic Tuscan pizza sauce.
Sprinkle some shredded mozzarella cheese, and then top it with 2 to 3 slices of mini pepperoni slices.
Bake these mini pizzas in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes at 350 F (180 C).
Once done, remove them from the oven, and let them cool for 5 minutes before serving. Your delicious mini pizzas are ready to be served!
Mini Pizza Recipe Variation Ideas
This delicious mini pizza recipe is everything you can ever imagine. It’s delicious and has a tasty pizza crust and amazing pizza sauce, as well as the perfect toppings.
But it’s simultaneously the perfect base recipe for you to tweak and turn into your favorite mini pizza recipe ever!
Here are some variation ideas you can try:
Try a different crust: Another way of preparing these absolutely delicious appetizers is to use English muffins instead of sliced zucchinis. You can also use Pillsbury's original biscuit as a pizza base.
Topping ideas: This recipe has an incredibly perfect combination of toppings, but you can add whichever ones you like. Leave the pizza sauce simple without any mushroom mixes, and go for other toppings like ham, bacon, pineapple, bell peppers, sausage, etc.
Try garnishes: You can also garnish these mini pizzas with fresh basil or any other fresh herbs you prefer!
How to Store Mini Pizzas
These Mini Pizzas can be stored in the fridge in an airtight container for up to three days. They reheat perfectly and are great for school or work lunch boxes.
These snacks also taste amazing when cold and no reheating is necessary. I don’t recommend freezing them as the zucchini crust won’t freeze so well.
Another way of preparing these absolute delicious appetizers is to use English muffins instead of sliced zucchinis.
I can’t describe how tasty they turned out as well! Reheats perfectly, and great for school or work lunch boxes.
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Recipe Card
Mini Pizzas with Baked Zucchini Crust and Homemade Sauce
Ingredients
Zucchini Mushroom Pepperoni Mini Pizza Appetizers Ingredients
- 1 can (12 oz.) – BLENDABELLA Rustic Tuscan (A Blend of Diced Portabella Mushrooms, Vegetables and Herbs)
- 2 large homegrown zucchinis
- ½ can (8 oz.) – organic tomato sauce
- ½ tsp. – sea salt
- ½ tsp. – garlic powder
- 1 tsp. – organic Italian seasoning
- 8 oz. – mozzarella cheese
- Mini pepperoni slices
Instructions
How to Veggie Pizza Crust for Mini Pizza
- Let’s start by prepping the zucchinis for the pizza crust. Rinse and slice zucchini into 35 slices approximately ¼“ [¾ cm] thick and 2.5” [6cm] in diameter. Set aside until ready for use.
How to Make Pizza Sauce and Prep Toppings
- Let’s first make our delicious pizza sauce. It’s incredibly easy and all you have to do is combine tomato sauce, sea salt, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning in a small bowl.
- Next, stir in a can of BLENDABELLA Rustic Tuscan to it for a deliciously tasty and chunky pizza sauce topping.
How to Assemble and Bake Mini Pizzas
- Time to assemble and bake our mini pizzas!
- Start by preheating the oven to 350 F (180 C). Layout zucchini slices onto an 18 x 26 baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Next, top each zucchini slice with a rounded tablespoon of BLENDABELLA Rustic Tuscan pizza sauce.
- Sprinkle some shredded mozzarella cheese, and then top it with 2 to 3 slices of mini pepperoni slices.
- Bake these mini pizzas in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes at 350 F (180 C).
- Once done, remove them from the oven, and let them cool for 5 minutes before serving. Your delicious mini pizzas are ready to be served!
Notes
- You can purchase BLENDABELLA online. Very flavorful with clean ingredients of Portabella mushrooms, vegetable, and herbs. Also, give their Zesty Mexican and Coconut Thai blend a try.
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Karly says
Yum! My kids will love this!
Valya of Valya's Taste of Home says
I’m glad they do, we love it as well!
Oksana Barbin says
Made this without the Blendabella (don't know where to find it) and it was still very good. Thank you for the recipe!
Valya of Valya's Taste of Home says
BLEBDABELLA takes these appetizers to the whole new level. You should give it a try. You can order BLENDABELLA mushroom blend on line (I have a direct link to their website in the post). You can use BLENDABELLA in many different recipes. Oh, so good! I cannot get enough of it. 😀