Lentil Prosciutto Parmesan Pizza

Lentil Prosciutto Parmesan Pizza – Lentils, mmmmmm, let me count the ways I love thee! We have lots of lentil recipes on our site. We also always, have lots of lentils at the ready in our pantry too. Green, red and black beluga lentils are wonderful for a quick dish like Lentils Ole. One of our absolute favorite vegetarian recipes and one that I have made a hundred times.

We have instituted vegetarian meals or Meatless Mondays if you would like to call it, for well over a decade. Lentils fill in on many of those nights. A Carrot, Parsnip and Lentil Casserole is another great dish to celebrate lentils with. I have put lentils into salads such as Curry Lentil and Butternut Squash Salad or stuffed them into tomatoes like this Greek Stuffed Tomatoes with Quinoa and Black Lentils. They have gone into soups like this Garden Harvest Soup or a great Mulligatawny Soup. We even went to the dark side and added bacon to a dish of Black Beluga Lentils.

Lentils are very versatile as you can see but I wanted to show you even more ways. Three ways actually in just this one recipe. You don’t have to go as crazy as we did with this recipe putting in lentils in every step but my point is to add them to meals, they create color and texture like no other. They are healthy for you with great dietary fiber. They provide a lean protein and are high in folate and iron. One cup are almost all you need for folate and iron for the day!

Let’s move on to taste, the most important of all. Lentils have a mild nutty flavor and they lend themselves to many spices, flavors and dishes. You can cook up black lentils with a smashed clove of garlic and once they are cooked and drained just add salt, they make for a nutty wonderful snack just on their own. They have a very mild flavor to, as you can see with the above recipes you can add them to so many cuisines. Today we went Italian with pizza.

We added red lentils to the pizza dough by making homemade lentil flour. Look at the little orange specks, so pretty!! We still did a regular gluten pizza dough but just subbed in some of the lentil flour for the all purpose flour. Lentil flour is easy to make too, I will show you how.

We cooked up lentils and added them to the sauce. Red lentils become very soft with cooking and can be easily added to a sauce like this pizza sauce.

Fresh mozzarella was baked on top. Got to have lots of cheese. You can crisp that cheese up under the broiler to if you like.

We then added black beluga lentils on top with the proscuitto, arugula and parmesan. A great combination of flavors. Try this delicious and healthy pizza for lunch or dinner. For a quick fix buy a ready made pizza pie crust, you will then have this built and ready to eat in no time at all.

 

This post is part of a contest supplied by Canadian Lentils.