Chilled Vegetable Pizza Appetizer Recipes

COLD VEGGIE PIZZA APPETIZER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Place cream cheese, yogurt, mayonnaise and Ranch dressing mix in a large bowl. With an electric mixer, beat on medium until smooth and creamy. Set aside.
• Remove crescent rolls from the cans and roll out in one big piece onto a large, greased cookie sheet. Pinch seams together, if needed. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool.
• Spread cream cheese mixture onto cooled crust. Top with cheese and veggies.
• Use a pizza cutter or large knife to cut into squares. Serve immediately or store in refrigerator in airtight container for up to 3 or 4 days.

COLD VEGGIE PIZZA APPETIZERS

Steps:

• To make the crust, mix the water and sugar in a small bowl and stir until the sugar dissolves. Sprinkle the yeast on top. Set aside until the yeast becomes foamy.
• Meanwhile, add the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, salt, and baking powder to a food processor and pulse briefly to combine. Add the butter and pulse several times until the butter is in very small pieces and the mixture resembles coarse sand.
• Add the Greek yogurt and the foamed yeast mixture and pulse a few times.
• Dump the dough into a large bowl and knead with your hands until it comes together into a ball. Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let the dough rise in a warm place for 45 minutes (the dough may not increase much in size).
• Preheat the oven to 375°F and grease a large baking sheet with olive oil. Place the dough in the pan and pat it out into an even layer that reaches the edges of the pan. Bake for about 15 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown around the edges and the middle springs back when you press on it. Let the crust cool completely before adding the sauce and toppings.
• To make the sauce, mix the cream cheese, Greek yogurt, ranch dressing, lemon juice, dill, salt, pepper, and garlic in a large bowl until smooth. Spread the sauce evenly across the cooled pizza crust.
• Sprinkle the chopped vegetables and chives on top of the pizza. Cut into squares and serve cold or at room temperature.

COLD VEGETABLE PIZZA

Steps:

• Unroll crescent rolls and place on an ungreased baking sheet. Flatten dough into an 8-in. x 5-in. rectangle. Seal seams and perforations. Bake at 375° for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. , In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, cream cheese and dill until blended; spread over crust. Top with vegetables of your choice. Sprinkle with olives and cheeses. Cover and chill at least 1 hour. Cut into slices. Refrigerate leftovers.

VEGETABLE APPETIZER PIZZA

Steps:

• Unroll two tubes of crescent dough and press into each of two ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pans; seal seams and perforations. , Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely on a wire rack., In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, mayonnaise and dill until smooth. Spread over crusts. Sprinkle with vegetables, olives and cheese. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. , Cut into squares. Refrigerate leftovers.

CHILLED VEGETABLE PIZZA APPETIZER

Steps:

• Place the unrolled crescent dough onto a pizza pan.
• Spread the dough out with your hands until it covers the pan.
• Bake about 10 minutes at 400 degrees F until lightly browned.
• While its baking, combine the cream cheese, mayonnaise and Ranch dressing, garlic powder, dill and salt.
• Mix well.
• Remove the crust from the oven and let it cool.
• Spread the cream cheese mixture over the cooled crust, then top with the chopped vegetables.
• Cut into wedges and serve. Keeps well in the refrigerator for several days. Great make-a-head dish.
• Donna's Tip:.
• " added my chopped onions to the filling but you can just sprinkle on top.
• Also a little hint, after I sprinkled my vegetables I covered the pizza with.
• saran wrap and before I placed.
• pizza in fridge to chill, I gently pressed down all the vegetables so they.
• would set and not tend to fall off when you cut pizza".

VEGETABLE PIZZA I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Roll out the crescent roll dough onto a 9x13 inch baking sheet, and pinch together edges to form the pizza crust.
• Bake crust for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Once finished cooking, remove crust from oven and let cool 15 minutes without removing it from the baking sheet.
• In a small mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, mayonnaise, and dry Ranch dressing. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust. Arrange broccoli, tomato, green bell pepper, cauliflower, shredded carrots, and Cheddar cheese over the cream cheese layer. Chill for one hour, slice and serve.

VEGGIE PIZZA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a jellyroll pan with non-stick cooking spray.
• Pat crescent roll dough into a jellyroll pan. Let stand 5 minutes. Pierce with fork.
• Bake for 10 minutes, let cool.
• In a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine sour cream, cream cheese, dill weed, garlic salt and ranch dip mix. Spread this mixture on top of the cooled crust. Arrange the onion, carrot, celery, broccoli, radish, bell pepper and broccoli on top of the creamed mixture. Cover and let chill. Once chilled, cut it into squares and serve.

FRESH VEGETABLE PIZZA APPETIZER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Lightly grease 17x11 rectangular cookie sheet or a 16-ounce pizza pan.
• Press pizza dough into pan to form a crust.
• Bake as directed on package until crust is done and just slightly browned on top.
• Do not overbake.
• Cool.
• Mix Sauce ingredients together and spread over cooled crust.
• Prepared all of the vegetables of choice by dicing them into very small pieces, placing each vegetable in a separate bowl or stack.
• ***Pay special attention to the tomatoes, as you need to drain these on paper towels to remove all excess moisture.
• Blot both top and bottom of tomatoes until they are dry.
• ***Sprinkle each vegetable, along with the cheese, evenly over the pizza, covering the cream cheese sauce in a decorative fashion.
• Cover entire pizza with plastic wrap and gently press toppings into the cream cheese.
• Refrigerate until serving time.
• (I prefer to refrigerate overnight to let flavors blend.) Cut into small, appetizer servings (about 1"x1") (I use a pizza cutter for this).
• Don't be tempted to add too many toppings to this pizza.
• Toppings need to adhere to cream cheese to make it neater to serve and eat; however, I always have some topping fall away when I cut this.
• ***I have kept this pizza in the refrigerator for several days, and it was still very delicious.
• SUBSTITUTE any of the toppings you like in place of the ones listed.
• I always select toppings that have a variety of complementary colors for a pretty presentation.