Provolone Pizza (Provolone, Roma Tomato & Fresh Basil Pizza)

BlondieItaliana's Note:

One of my favorite pizza's to make - and it's so easy. I use pre-sliced mild provolone from dairy section or deli. Ease comes from using pre-made pizza dough that I get from the supermarket, however, you can of course make your own. Also, I only recommend using the fresh basil - it gives the best flavor to this pizza.

• Total Time: 17 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 lb pizza dough, refrigerated
• 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 3/4 lb provolone cheese, sliced
• 5 roma tomatoes, sliced
• salt & pepper
• garlic powder
• 1 -2 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Roll out dough. Coat pizza pan with the olive oil and spread out rolled dough evenly to all edges of pan. Sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese. Top with sliced provolone then place tomatoes on top of cheese. Season with salt, pepper, & garlic powder to taste then sprinkle the fresh basil evenly all over pizza.
3. Bake for 12-18 minutes or until crust just golden brown. Slice & serve.

Reviews

[Becky in Wisconsin]

This was very good. I liked the fact that there wasn't any sauce. I added sliced green olives on top as I was making this for myself and my DIL, and we both LOVE green olives on our pizza. Pizza is such a versatile item, and this is a great starting point. I made this with Pizza Dough for Thin Crust Pizza which has become my go to dough recipe. Thanks for posting this great recipe.

[jrusk]

This is our favorite way to do pizza too except that I skip the parmesan. If it's just us I chop up my tomatoes so the whole thing doesn't slide off in one bite, lol. However, for presentation purposes slices do look a lot better. I use about 6 different types of basil (depending on what is ready to be cut) so every week this pizza changes a bit. I'll try it with the parm. next week as I didn't know this was already posted.

[OddSpirit]

Great Recipe! I adjusted to suit my family, but basically kept the recipe the same and added spaghetti sauce and chopped spinach. The result was absolutely delicious! My family ate the entire pizza! DH said to put the recipe on my weekly rotation.