Spinach Pepperoni(turkey) Flag Pizza (Pastry Puff)

This is a gooey fun loaded pizza that you can bake with your kids and have a good time in the kitchen. I made this with pastry puff as a base and used spinach stirfry using garlic and oil along with mozzarella cheese, marinara sauce and turkey pepperoni. You can replace the pepperoni with tomato slices. It tastes soooo good!

You can indulge in this rich pastry and cheese-loaded pizza once in a while, like 4th of July as it has the deco of a FLAG:) An apt preparation for the day of independence to show strength, unity, freedom, peace and love!

So go get your pastry sheets and start rolling and baking :)

Without further ado, here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 sheet of pastry puff
• 2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese
• 3 tbsp of marinara sauce (or pizza sauce)
• 2 dozen of turkey pepperoni
• 1/2 cup frozen spinach
• 2 garlic pods minced
• salt/pepper as per taste
• mozzarella cheese cut into small bits/pieces
• 1 tsp olive oil

Preparation:

Thaw the pastry puff for 30 minutes on the counter. 
Preheat the oven to 400F/200C. Use a little olive oil to lightly coat the bottom of a baking sheet. Set aside.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the puff pastry dough to about 10” x 15”. Place the dough on the prepared baking sheet. Fold the edges of the dough over to make a crust. Use a fork to gently poke holes throughout all of the dough. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 10 – 12 minutes or until golden brown.

In the meantime, heat oil in a pan, add garlic and saute quickly, add thawed spinach and cook for 3-4 minutes on low heat till all the water evaporates. Keep aside.
Remove the dough from the oven and spread spinach mixture on the top left corner in a square pattern. Drop mozzarella cheese bits in between the spinach patch to make it look like stars :)

Spread the marinara sauce evenly on the pastry dough.  Add mozzarella cheese and place the turkey-pepperoni in 3 straight lines. 

Place the baking sheet back in the oven for 8 more minutes or till cheese melts. Broil for a minute to get that nice brown spots on cheese.
Enjoy your 4th of July Flag Pizza with your family!

njoY!! happY cookinG!!

recipe idea adapted from Giada Laurentiis.