Cuisine: Italian
Cook Time: 30 minutes + 4 hours for the dough to rise
Serves: 4
Pizza is hands down the most famous Italian dish. It is enjoyed by both kids and adults and is a complete delight to your taste buds. The recipe includes a homemade pizza base with marinara and mushroom toppings. Quick and easy to make, this mushroom pizza will surely be everyone's favorite.
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Chef Tip: Be generous with the mushrooms as they shrink in the oven. Add more to your liking.
This mushroom pizza is absolutely delicious and is the ultimate crowd-pleaser. You can customize the toppings as per your liking and indulge in the goodness of a crispy crust and cheesy mushroom toppings. Do tell us how much you loved the mushroom pizza in the comments.
• Ancient Egyptians referred to mushrooms as the plant of immortality in hieroglyphics more than 600 years ago.
• Mushrooms held such an esteemed position at the time that commoners were forbidden from even touching them, and it was exclusive for royalty.
• Foods similar to pizza have been in existence from the Neolithic age where people added the ingredients to their bread to make it more flavourful.
• In the 6th century BC, the Persian soldiers of the Achaemenid Empire baked flatbreads with cheese and dates on top of their battle shield.
• A large slice of mushroom pizza has 268 calories of which 87 are from fat.
• It contains 9.7g of fat, 17mg of cholesterol, 594mg of sodium, 247mg of potassium, 34g of carbohydrates, and 12g of protein.