🍕 Pizza ortolana (vegetable pizza)

Name: Pizza ortolana (vegetable pizza)
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 250 g ready pizza dough (or homemade); 150 g crushed tomatoes; 125 g mozzarella, torn; 1 small zucchini, sliced; 1 small eggplant, sliced; 1 red pepper, cut into strips; 2 tbsp olive oil, salt

Origin: Italy

640kcal

per serving · 320 g

200kcal

per 100 g

24 gProtein7.5 g / 100 g

21 gFat6.5 g / 100 g

93 gCarbs29 g / 100 g

Pizza ortolana — “the greengrocer’s pizza” — is topped with tomato, mozzarella and grilled or roasted vegetables: zucchini, eggplant and sweet peppers. The vegetables bring smoky sweetness and colour, while the mozzarella melts between them. It is a popular vegetarian choice in Italian pizzerias and is eaten whole or in slices.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: mozzarella

Contains glutenbecause of: pizza dough

Contains dairybecause of: mozzarella

Not keto29 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

pizza doughtomatomozzarellazucchinieggplantbell peppers

Recipe

2 servings45 min

Ingredients

250 g ready pizza dough (or homemade)
150 g crushed tomatoes
125 g mozzarella, torn
1 small zucchini, sliced
1 small eggplant, sliced
1 red pepper, cut into strips
2 tbsp olive oil, salt

Method

Brush the vegetables with 1 tbsp oil, salt them and grill or roast at 220 °C for 15 minutes.
Preheat the oven with a stone or tray inside to the maximum.
Stretch the dough by hand into a 30 cm round, leaving a slightly thicker rim.
Spread the tomato, add the mozzarella and arrange the vegetables on top.
Bake on the hottest setting of the oven (250–280 °C) on a preheated stone or tray for 7–10 minutes until the crust is blistered.
Drizzle with the remaining oil and serve.

How to make it lighter

Grill the vegetables dry in a pan instead of frying — eggplant soaks up a lot of oil.
Use less mozzarella and spread it thinly — cheese is the most calorie-dense topping.
Pile on extra vegetables: they add volume for few calories.

History

Ortolana comes from ortolano, a market gardener, and the name is used across Italy for dishes built on seasonal vegetables. The pizza has no single recorded origin and is found in pizzerias throughout the country.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →