pizza - whole wheat kale and cheese pizza, clean and simple

I don't know about you but I have a thing for kale..... and whole wheat pizza!  What a beautiful marriage.  Add your favorite cheese or cheeses and voila!  Pizza heaven! This is a not-so guilty pleasure of mine. In my book, there's nothing wrong with the super-food kale and homemade whole wheat pizza dough. Yesss.
This is a small personal pizza but could easily be quadrupled into a large pizza pie.

grab from your pantry and fridge:

1 handful of dough about the size of a small orange (from the master dough recipe).

1/4 cup of flour for dusting the pizza peel and your hands.

1 handful of baby kale or any other super-greens, such as spinach.

2-4 oz of your favorite cheese, grated....today mine happens to be mozzarella.

1 tablespoon of good evoo or olive oil to drizzle on top of the pizza before you send it into the fire.

 black pepper or crushed red peppers to taste

preperation:

Preheat the oven to 450. Pull out the parchment paper, the pizza peel and a rolling pin. Lay a sheet of parchment paper over the pizza peel, this will help to keep the mess to a minimum.  Grab a chunk of dough and dust it with flour to help prevent the dough from sticking to your hands.

Take the dough, sprinkle it with a little bit of flour and plop it onto the peel.  Roll the dough into any shape or thickness that makes you smile.  You might need to add a tad more flour to keep it from sticking.  I like my pizza napoleon style, maybe a 1/4" thick but honestly, depending on the day, my pizza comes out resembling countries like Africa or South America. No joke. Still tastes divine.

Once it's rolled to your liking. Spread half of the freshly grated cheese on the dough, add the kale, finish spreading the rest of the cheese on top. I like to add fresh cracked pepper or red pepper flakes on top then drizzle the evoo all over the pizza. So good.

Slide the pizza with the parchment paper on top of a pizza stone on the middle rack of the oven. Set the timer for 10 minutes....you may need to check for even baking and turn the pizza around and bake for an additional 5 minutes.

Trust me, you'll know when it's ready. Take it out once the edges are a golden brown and the cheese is bubbling.  Pizza HEAVEN!

Oh my! Grandma would sure be proud!

Shannon