Pesto Pizza with Whole Wheat Flour

Pesto pizza recipe with step by step pics. Pesto pizza is one of our favorite pizzas. Pesto is a basil and nut based sauce from Italy. You can even call it as basil chutney in Indian language. The flavors and aroma of the pesto sauce in a vegetarian pizza takes it to a new level. If you like pesto, then you will also like pizza made with pesto.

Many years back I had shared the recipe of Pesto made with almonds. I still use this recipe to make pesto with almonds, cashews or walnuts. You can check the recipe here – Pesto sauce.

Adding homemade pesto in the pizza tastes always good, but you can even use store brought bottled pesto.

For the pizza base, I have used my Whole wheat pizza dough. In the step by step pictorial, I have mentioned in detail on making the wheat pizza dough. You can even make this pizza with your favorite pizza dough. If you have your pizza dough prepared ahead of time, the whole recipe takes just 20 minutes to get on the table.

The whole wheat pizza dough recipe is a simple and easy method made from 100% whole wheat flour or atta. This dough gives a soft textured pizza base – one which is crisp from the outside after getting baked. There is no denseness or chewiness felt in the pizza bread.

Also do note that I have used a stand mixer to knead the dough, But its also easy to knead the pizza dough with hands. just make sure that the dough is kneaded till smooth, soft and supple.

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