Background: This is maybe not a practical move for everyone, but it’s a regular move in our house. There’s a fancy grocery store near us that sells what it calls “naan dippers.” They are actually more like the fluffy white pocketless “pita” bread that you sometimes see in the bread aisle at chain grocery stores. But they are tiny and flat and kind of pear shaped. One day, when I was out of my go-to pizza crust, I decided to make mico pizzas out of them. My daughter came by and thought they looked like little feet. Pizza feet were born. Here are the moves:
- Keep naan dippers (or pocketless “pita”) in your freezer.
- Keep shredded mozzarella in your freezer.
- Keep No-Cook Pizza Sauce in your freezer.
- When you are all our of ideas for a weekend lunch or harried dinner get the ingredients and start layering bread, sauce, cheese.
- Cook for 4 minutes in an air fryer or a bit longer in a conventional oven.
Why It Works:
- These things are great to have on hand and they freeze well. You can also pull some out with hummus for your lunch the next day.
- Unlike most cheeses, mozzarella freezes really well.
- You guessed it, the sauce freezes well, too. Zap it in the microwave to make it more spreadable and use a silicone basting brush for even sauce distribution.
- You know how pizza is made.
- I’m not kidding when I say I can have these made in under 10 minutes.
Mods:
- If using the pita, but you want to keep things whimsical, use cookie cutters to make shapes and make pizzas out of them. Collect the scraps and make croutons for a Greek salad.
- If you are eating these yourself, dress yours up with Beer Braised Mushrooms.
- If you don’t care for white bread or fake pita bread, find a place that sells pita you like and keep that in the freezer for yourself. I find that frozen whole wheat pocket pita makes a pretty passable pizza like dish.
- Skip the bread and put the sauce and cheese on the chicken cutlets from the Chicken Breakdown move. Or, do what I contemplated doing and make tiny chicken parms using pizza sauce, cheese, and frozen chicken nugs. Or, add the tiny breads back in the mix and make tiny mass produced chicken parm sandwiches that are insulting to like four cultures at once. Don’t judge me. I’m in survival mode here.