Easy Dinner: Naan Pizza

I was just plain tired yesterday. Saturday night at the restaurant was bone-crushing. Sunday came all too soon with too little sleep; thanks doggies! Monday was a scramble all day to catch up on paperwork, run errands, and to plan for this coming Sunday's catering, not to mention rushing to make a late afternoon meeting with our financial adviser.

In short, I just wasn't in the mood to cook. And so we had a Costco dinner: a package of naan, a jar of pesto, a roasted chicken, a ball of fresh mozzarella, and some cheap Pinot. It doesn't get much simpler than naan pizzas when you are too tired to really cook. Five minutes start to finish and not much to clean up.

Ready for the Oven: Chicken and Pesto Naan Pizzas

Cheap Pinot

Naan Pizza

Early Monday morning as I was getting ready to leave work to head out on my usual restaurant-related errands, I got an emphatic text from Ann to the effect of "let's have veggie naan pizzas for dinner (and I don't want to hear any arguments from you)". Well, OK, then. Let's have naan pizzas.

Fortunately, Costco has OK naan in stock, so I grabbed them and a ball of fresh mozzarella. At the market, I got a bulb of fennel and a couple of red peppers. Back home, I sliced the fennel, peppers, a mound of garlic, and two huge onions and put them on a low flame for about three hours. The veggie pizza topping was nice and soft and caramelized by dinner time.

Naan, Caramelized Onion/Fennel/Peppers, Fresh Mozzarella

Carter seems to be squeamish these days about certain vegetables including peppers and fennel, but I notice that if I bury them on a pizza, he eats them. Maybe not enthusiastically, but he does eat them. Besides being a great way to get some vegetables into your teenager, naan pizzas are quick and delicious!