I love recipes that make life easier, but involve a few touches to make them your own. This colourful, delicious, summery pizza is just that – you buy a margarita pizza and then add sweetcorn, prawns and pesto (either homemade or shop-bought). If you’re making the pesto you will need a food processor.
If you like you could vary what ingredients you use to make this a summertime pizza – other seasonal summer ingredients are spring onions, tomatoes, asparagus, crab and rocket.
We ate the pizza in the garden with our hands, along with some chopped carrots and cucumber and a jug of squash. Yum!
Cheats Summertime Pizza (serves 4)
Large Margarita pizza
Small tin sweetcorn, drained
Small pack of king prawns
Shake of dried mixed herbs
For the pesto (alternatively use shop-bought pesto)
40g watercress or rocket
Juice of 1/4 of a lemon
1 clove garlic, crushed
Small handful of pine nuts (or other nuts)
Dessert spoon of oil (ideally olive oil but any will do)
Optional – 1 tsp chilli flakes
Put the Margarita pizza on a baking tray. Scatter over the sweetcorn and prawns and a shake of the herbs. To make the pesto, blitz all the pesto ingredients in a food processor until well combined, adding a little more oil if it needs loosening up. Dollop the pesto all over the pizza. Scatter over the chilli flakes if using (or just use them on half if you want half of the pizza to be non-spicy). Cook the pizza as per the packet instructions. Eat with hands!
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