Creativity born out of necessity

Earlier tonight, I started making our weekly GF/CF pizzas. In our home, I typically make the crusts and my husband comes up with awesome gourmet topping combinations. What started out as a pleasant routine ended in a manner I never suspected. You see, we normally use goat mozzarella cheese due to my husband's dairy allergies, but the store we normally buy it from was out. When it came time to choose pizza toppings, I called in the expert: my husband. We had an unusual assortment of options, most of which were very dependent on using the goat mozzarella as the cheese. My husband carefully smelled all the ingredients and started experimenting. I love watching him work his magic!  I never know what he's going to come up with. :) He mixed up some sesame tahini spread, roasted red peppers, chopped garlic, butter, lemon juice, and some spices into a pizza sauce and proceeded to spread it on one of the pizza crusts. After topping the crust with some diced sun-dried tomatoes, Al Fresco chicken sausage with jalapenos, diced onion, goat monterey jack cheese, and goat pepper jack cheese, he slid it into the oven. 15 minutes later, we tentatively took our first bite. Had the experiment worked?

It was a masterpiece! Neither one of us had ever had an "Indian" pizza before, but it was so good that I just had to share the recipe for the Indian pizza sauce my wonderful, creative husband came up with!

If you want to try making your own Indian pizza, here's the pizza sauce we made:



Indian Pizza Sauce

Ingredients
3 cloves garlic, diced
1/4 c. roasted red peppers
3/4 t. curry powder
3/4 t. salt
1/4 t. McCormick's seasoned pepper blend
1/2 c. roasted sesame tahini spread
1 t. lemon juice
1 T. Earth Balance margarine

Directions
In a small cast iron skillet over medium heat, add a tablespoon of safflower (or other neutral) oil. Saute garlic until it starts turning brown, constantly stirring.  Add red peppers to the garlic and continue cooking and stirring for a couple minutes.  Stir in the spices (the pan will look very dry).  Add the tahini spread and lemon juice, mixing thoroughly.  Pour the mixture into a food processor, add the margarine, and process till smooth.  It will be a dark reddish-orange color.  Spread onto prepared pizza crust and add toppings (be sure to add chopped onion and sundried tomatoes because they really make the sauce work!).  Enjoy!