'Our Own' Roasted Vegetable Pizza

The next adventure in cooking is trying to make a Pizza similar to "Amy's Roasted Vegetable" pizza.

There are really 3 parts to this creation:
1.  Crust
2.  Sauce
3.  Veggie Toppings

CRUST
I've tried using Trader Joe's pre-made crust before, it works great!
This time, since there was so much recent success with sour dough, we decided to half the recipe, and use that as our crust:

INGREDIENTS

• 3 3/8 ounces bread flour, plus extra for shaping
• 3 3/8 ounces whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons vital wheat gluten
• 1/8 teaspoon active-dry yeast
• 1 teaspoons kosher salt
• 6-8 ounces filtered water

DIRECTIONS

Whisk together the flour, yeast and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the water and stir until combined.(dough should be really soupy and not hold shape. ) Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow to sit at room temperature for 19 hours.

After 19 hours, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Punch down the dough and turn it over onto itself a couple of times.(use plenty of flour as it is sticky) Cover with a tea towel and allow to rest 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, shape the dough into a ball and roll out into your PIZZA FORM!.
Pre-bake at 450 for 5 minutes, before topping!



SAUCE
This is a carmelized onion sauce.

1 Large Onion
2-5 cloves of garlic
2 T Balsamic Vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste

So Take one onion(we used a Vidalia Onion), slice it up.  Put it in frying pan on low/medium heat with some olive oil.  Stir.  Let sit.  Stir, let sit.  The process to carmelize takes 25(+) minutes!  Really depends on the water content of your onion.  After you've deemed them carmelized, transfer to a food processor.  Puree to be sauce like.  At the same time add Balsamic Vinegar, and salt and pepper.  Once pureed to sauce form, you're done!


Veggie Toppings

We used:
1 Zucchini
1 red pepper
1 orange pepper
8oz Shitake mushrooms

Wash, slice/dice to sizes you like.  Put under broiler until you get nice brown crispy roasted edges.



Assembly
Put all 3 layers together.  We sprinkle LIGHTLY with cheese.  Although not needed and also not in Amy's version.