Amazing eggplant pizza!

Happy First of June everyone! This spring was filled with ups and downs, as me and my best friend realized yesterday while saying goodbye to May and stuffing our mouths with illegally delicious ice cream. When I was waiting for my bus to get home, I started to wonder what I would eat when I eventually arrived home. I made a little list in my head of all the things we had in our refrigerator and as it happens, one of those things was eggplant.
I started to wonder. What could I do with a half of an eggplant? Miniature, but very much to-die-for vegetarian pizzas? Um, yes please!
So, I started to google ideas and recipes and came up with this mouth-watering eggplant pizza recipe. It is ridiculously easy, quick and very customizable!

You will need...

• eggplant (you can choose the amount of eggplant according to how many people you are serving, but for instance, I only used a half of an eggplant to make 8 small pizzas)
• oil and spices
• tomato puree
• topping of your choice (I went with cherry tomatoes, paprika and grated cheese)

First things first, preheat your oven to 200 C (about 390 F). We are getting started by chopping our eggplant in to slices (about 1cm) and laying them on to a lined baking tray. You can either chop them into circular shapes by cutting horizontally from the center, or you can make bigger pizzas and cut from the tip to the stem, vertically. Your choice! Next we are spreading some olive oil and spices (as basic as salt and pepper) and putting them into the oven for about 10-15 minutes. 



After softening our eggplant slices in the oven, we are allowed to get very creative. Imagine your favorite pizza toppings and add them here! I went with basics and added cherry tomatoes, paprika and grated cheese and finished everything with some dried basil on top (though I added the basil after taking them from the oven). But seriously, if you feel like this is too simple for you, feel free to try cool flavor combinations. It is your pizza after all!
Last but not least, let's bake our mini pizzas in the oven for five more minutes. And guess what? We are done!

And there you go, perfect mini eggplant pizzas. They are so much healthier and lighter than flour based pizza and just as delicious (if even better). Give it a go, invite your friends over and have a wonderful night with incredible food and absolutely no shame or bad conscience. It doesn't get better than this. For my opinion, a perfect way to start summer.

xoxo

Isabella