For a minute there we were buying Trader Joe’s pizza dough 2-3 times a week. Dude, a lb of pizza dough for $1.19 is a ton of food for cheap. Plus it’s the perfect blank canvas. This pizza is sweet and smokey but needed a little more pineapple than I originally put on it. I’m already ready to make more. I love tahini but may drizzle olive oil over it next time…or leave the oil off all together. This recipe is for a personal size pizza which is half of a bag of dough.

8 oz store bought fresh pizza dough, 2 TB pasta sauce, 2 TB BBQ sauce, 1/2 can of chickpeas, slices of jalapeno & pineapple, olive oil, herbs and spices, flour, foil & spray oil, tahini (optional)

1. Place cookie sheet in the oven on 425
2. Mash chickpeas with a fork then mix in 2 TB BBQ sauce
3. Lightly flour your work surface and your hands. Lightly sprinkle flour over your dough and form into a ball. Rotate dough clockwise while stretching it out whatever dough is in the drive’s hand.
4. Spray foil with oil, place stretched dough on the foil. You can coat the pizza crust edge with olive oil to make it golden.
5. Spread 2 TB of pasta sauce on dough. I added spices; onion powder, chipotle powder and fresh ground fennel. Put BBQ chickpeas on top, then slices of jalapeno & pineapple.
6. I don’t have an exact time for baking. I wait til I smell the pizza cooking then keep an eye out for golden crust. Golden means done. 15-25 minutes? Drizzle with oil or tahini. ENJOY

For details on this recipe watch my video below