PEI Potato Pizza

This recipe is a fabulous dinner on its own and you can certainly get creative with toppings - add other veggies, roasted chicken, crumbled bacon or sausage meat.

Yield: 4 servings
Cooking time: 20-25 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 pizza dough, room temperature
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 medium PEI yellow fleshed potato, sliced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 spring fresh rosemary, stem removed & chopped*
• salt & pepper, to taste
• 2 cups mozzarella cheese, grated
• 1/4 cup fresh Parmesan
• 2 cups loosely packed arugula

Directions

• Preheat oven to 400F. Roll out pizza dough into large circle and place on a greased pizza pan.
• Bring a pot of lightly salted water to a boil, blanch potato slices for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
• Remove potatoes from boiling water and place into a bowl of cold water to stop cooking.
• Brush the pizza dough with olive oil and sprinkle with garlic and rosemary.
• Place potato slices in a single layer over the surface of pizza; season with salt & pepper.
• Top with cheese and bake until crust is golden and cheese is bubbly, approximately 20 to 25 minutes. Serve immediately.

* Fresh rosemary can be replaced with 1 tsp dried rosemary.

Courtesy of PEI Potato Board