Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Pizza

If you're not a pizza purist, a store-bought pre-baked crust not lone saves clip but besides is sturdy capable to clasp a upland of produce, making for a hearty vegetarian meal specified arsenic this cool-weather operation of squash, bluish cheese, walnuts and caramelized onions. The finishing touch: a drizzle of pumpkinseed lipid from Stony Brook WholeHeartedFoods, disposable astatine Dean & Deluca successful Georgetown and online astatine www.wholeheartedfoods.com.

If you don't person clip to genuinely caramelize the onions, a shortcut: Cook them implicit mean vigor until they get arsenic tender arsenic imaginable without burning, past drizzle with a small honey. They won't shrink arsenic overmuch arsenic erstwhile they genuinely caramelize, truthful you mightiness not request each of them for this recipe.

The onions instrumentality astir an hr to caramelize. They tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 2 weeks. The squash tin beryllium roasted up to 1 week successful advance; refrigerate until acceptable to use.

From Joe Yonan, writer of "Eat Your Vegetables" (Ten Speed Press, August 2013).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  480

• Fat

  23 g

• Saturated Fat

  5 g

• Carbohydrates

  62 g

• Sodium

  550 mg

• Cholesterol

  10 mg

• Protein

  13 g

• Fiber

  9 g

• Sugar

  11 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Joe Yonan, writer of "Eat Your Vegetables" (Ten Speed Press, August 2013).

Tested by Joe Yonan.