Mushroom Pizza with Leeks and Herbs

Mushroom pizza with leeks and herbs – adapted from Greens

Mushrooms are healthy and nutritious. Mushrooms have terrific flavors. Some chefs say mushrooms provide a fifth flavor, umami.

Check out this delicious mushroom pizza with leeks and herbs. Less is more when it comes to the amount of cheese. The original recipe is found the Green’s Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurant. The publishing date is 1987. You might want to check your local library to check out this fantastic cookbook.

Mushroom pizza with leeks and herbs: ingredients

One homemade pizza dough – See how to make your own dough

Two leeks, mostly white portion quartered and sliced
10 oz of Cremini mushrooms sliced
Monterey Jack- just enough. – 3 oz is tops

Dry Monterey Jack – 1 oz is tops
One-to-two cloves of garlic minced
Two tablespoons olive oil

Two tablespoons of fresh herb mix (thyme, oregano, and parsley) – less if using dried herbs

Best Pizza Books – Learn more about pizza with these excellent pizza books

Mushroom pizza with leeks and herbs: Instructions

Slice the leeks and saute them in butter until soft and translucent

Remove the leeks and set aside
Add more butter and olive oil and saute the sliced mushrooms until the mushrooms give up their juices. Add a couple of pinches of salt to the mushrooms when you begin the saute.
Add the minced garlic to the mushrooms

Add one tablespoon of the herb mix to the mushrooms. Mix the herbs with the mushrooms; remove from the pan and set aside.
Roll out the dough to a ten-inch diameter.
Put some semolina flour under the dough. It will help slide the pizza on to your stone.

Place the leeks on the dough.
Sprinkle on half the cheese.
Place the mushrooms on the dough

Add the remaining cheese
Cook pizza on the stone until the crust is firm and the cheese melts.
Take out the pizza and sprinkle the remaining herb mixture.

Slice the pizza and serve.

What wine matches with a mushroom pizza?

My choice of wine to serve with a mushroom pizza is Zinfandel. Zinfandel rocks with the mushrooms, leeks, and jack cheese. A earthy tasting wine is also a good choice for this mushroom pizza. A wine from the Priorat regions of Spain is a very worthy choice.