Nettle Pizza

Name: Nettle Pizza
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 113 grams qts. lightly packed stinging nettle leaves or baby spinach leaves; 2 larges garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 3 Tbsps olive oil, divided; 1 teaspoons pepper; 454 grams pizza dough (such as Trader Joes); 0 teaspoons red chile flakes; 355 milliliters shredded mozzarella cheese

Nettle Pizza might be just the main course you are searching for. One serving contains 508 calories, 19g of protein, and 24g of fat. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have mozzarella cheese, pepper, chile flakes, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the pepper you could follow this main course with the Easy Peppermint Dessert as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 with rack on bottom. Wearing long gloves, rinse nettles well.

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Stinging Nettle

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Oven

Drain.

Sizzle garlic a few seconds in 1 tbsp. oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat.

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Garlic

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Add nettles and saut until wilted, 2 to 5 minutes.

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Stinging Nettle

Remove from heat. If nettles are wet, drain in a colander, pat dry, and return to pan. Gently mix nettles with 1 tbsp. more oil, the pepper, and chile flakes.

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Red Pepper Flakes

Stinging Nettle

Pepper

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Colander

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Roll dough on a floured board into a 9- by 14-in. rectangle. Ease dough onto an oiled baking sheet, fixing the shape if necessary. Using fingers, roll edges of dough over to make a 1/2-in. rim.

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Dough