Simply 7: Mushroom+Caramelized Onion Pizza

Hello Nomsters,

We're back with another "Simply 7" post to give you ideas for simple, delicious dishes that can be made in an apartment, dorm, or home with fewer than 7 ingredients (sans the basics, salt/olive oil/etc)!
We covered homemade pastas and pasta salads in a previous post, so this time we're summing up a recipe for homemade pizza that'll have you begging for another slice! (or least keep you from feeling the desire to order in pizza all of the time)

Mushrooms are one of my favorite foods, especially in pizza or pasta. They have a way of soaking in the flavors of the other items that have been added to them, which is probably why my mom always said "watch how much butter you put in that pan!" They're like little sponges! Similarly, caramelized onions have a great taste and manage to soak in the flavors of other ingredients, so it should be no surprise that the mushroom/onion combo is probably on most people's favorites list. My recipe for this basically came out of thin air, I had a bunch of mushrooms and onions and figured I'd add some other random seasoning and make a pizza! So here you go :)

Pizza Dough 

You can use this Recipe from our pizza post! Or buy premade dough from your local grocer (Trader Joe's has awesome dough, ~$1.99)

Onion Topping
Ingredients:
-1 to 2 small/medium Onions
-1 to 2 Tbsp Olive Oil
-1 Tsp Cinnamon
-Salt/Pepper (to taste)








Mushroom Topping
Ingredients:
-1 Large package of Mushrooms (I used Baby Portobella and sliced them up myself)
-Salt/Pepper (to taste)
-1/2-1 Tbsp Butter
-1/4 Cup Water
-1 Tbsp Olive oil
-1 Tsp Oregano (optional, or to taste)

-1 to 2 cups Parmesan Cheese/Asiago/whatever you're feeling or have on hand 

Method

So, the pizza-making process is pretty easy, make the dough, let it rest, while it's resting cook/assemble your toppings, go back to the dough and roll it out/oil it, add your toppings, add the cheese+a bit of olive oil, put it in the oven, nom nom nom! But, since we're dealing with other ingredients, we'll break it down for you. When making this particular pizza, I started with cooking the onion mix and then cooked the mushrooms in the same pan after (gives more flavor!).

Oven @ 475F

1. Chop onions into slices, or into thin rough pieces, season with salt and pepper,
2. Heat up your olive oil in a skillet over medium/high heat (approx 1-2mins or when you add a piece of onion it sizzles),

3. Add onions, additional salt/pepper/oil if needed, add cinnamon to taste, continue to stir until caramelized (about 5-8minutes),
4. Turn off burner, scoop onions into separate bowl and set aside,
5. Slice mushrooms into bite-sized pieces, heat up olive oil and butter in the onion skillet on medium heat,
6. Place half of the mushrooms in skillet and lightly spread them out, add your water. As the mushrooms begin to soak up the liquid, add the rest of your mushrooms,
7. Season with salt/pepper and oregano, lightly stir mushrooms, continue cooking until tender,
8. There will be extra liquid in the pan, make sure to remove the liquid (draining) as to prevent it from flooding the pizza dough.
9. Roll out pizza dough on olive oil coated pan, drizzle some olive oil over dough, use a fork to make small marks in dough to prevent bubbles,
10. Spread onion and mushroom mixture over dough, add cheese on top, place in oven and cook for about 12-16minutes or until crust is golden
11. NOM

This turned out to be one of my favorite pizzas I've made this summer, the dough was crisp, the mushrooms were flavorful, and the onions perfectly married (I don't know how I feel about this word as description of flavors yet...) with the mushrooms and cheese.

Try it out, let us know what you think!





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