Pita Pizza

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Cooking time: About 25 minutes
Prep time: About 10 minutes

Makes: 2 servings

    

Ingredients

• 4 oz.      cooked sausage (e.g. Chicken-apple)
• 1 T.        mild olive oil
• 1/2 cup    yellow onion, thinly sliced
• 1             garlic clove, crushed
• 4            mushrooms, quartered
• 1/2 lb.   eggplant, peeled and cut into 1" chunks
• 4             pita, about 7 inch in diameter
• 1             large tomato, thinly sliced and quartered
• 1/2 t.      dried thyme
• 1/4 t.      dried basil
• 2 oz.      grated Mozzrella cheese (or two 1-oz packages of string cheese)
• 1/4 cup    grated Parmesan cheese

    

Directions

1. Slice sausage and fry in 1 t. olive oil 5 min. until hot. Remove sausage and discard excess fat.

2. Add 2 t. olive oil to pan. Saute onions 5 minutes.

3. Add crushed garlic and heat 2 minutes. Add eggplant and mushrooms. Saute 5 minutes until soft. Remove and discard garlic.

4. Top 4 pita with sausage, onions, and finally with eggplant/mushroom mixture. Cover with tomato slices. Sprinkle with thyme and basil. Top with cheeses.

5. Bake on cookie sheet 10 minutes in 400 deg.F oven.

Adapted from a recipe in Sept. 30, 2004 San Francisco Chronicle.

 

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