Veggie Pita Pizza Bites
Add a little green to your snack table with these Veggie Pita Pizza Bites! Whole wheat mini pitas, ricotta, and sun-dried tomatoes topped with lots of fresh veggies. Serve drizzled with balsamic vinegar and watch them disappear.
Veggie Pita Pizza Bites
Loaded with flavor and good for you veggies, these healthy veggie pita pizza bites are party perfection. Served as an entrΓ©e they also make a fun lunch or dinner for two.
While we enjoy the crisp bell peppers, and sauteed mushrooms and spinach feel free to adjust the vegetables to fit your personal preferences.
Veggie Pita Pizza Bites
Baked mini pitas topped with ricotta, sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach and so much more.
Ingredients
- 4 whole wheat mini pitas
- 3 teaspoons + 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 ounces thinly sliced baby Bella mushrooms, (or your favorite type of mushroom)
- 2 cups loosely packed fresh baby spinach, roughly chopped
- 1 small shallot, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup whole milk ricotta cheese
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes
- 1/3 cup thinly sliced mini bell peppers, (about 5 or 6 whole mini peppers depending on size)
- 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced
- 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
- Salt & pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven or toaster oven to 400 F. Place mini pitas on cookie sheet and drizzle with just 1/2 teaspoon of the olive oil. Use your hands to rub oil over both sides of pitas. Bake pitas for 5 to 7 minutes until crispy and lightly golden. Remove pitas once cooked but leave oven on.
- While the pitas are baking place 2 teaspoons of olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and give the pan a good stir to coat the mushrooms with oil, allow them to sit undisturbed for 2 minutes. After the 2 minutes continue cooking the mushrooms stirring occasionally, for 4 to 5 minutes until golden brown. Add the remaining teaspoon of olive oil and shallots. Lightly salt and pepper, cook for 2 minutes stirring occasionally. Lastly, add the spinach, lightly salt and pepper and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently until the spinach has wilted down. Remove from heat.
- In a small bowl combine the ricotta and sun-dried tomatoes, lightly salt and pepper.
- Spread each pita with 1/4 of the ricotta mixture, top with 1/4 of the spinach/mushrooms and arrange mini bell pepper slices in an even layer across the top. Sprinkle each pita with 1 tablespoon mozzarella cheese.
- Return pizzas to the 400 F oven and bake for 3-4 minutes until cheese is melted and ingredients are warmed. Broil for 1-2 minutes to brown cheese if desired.
- Slice each pita into 4 triangles, sprinkle with sliced basil, drizzle with balsamic vinegar and serve to your hungry party guests.
Notes
Recipe and technique for sautΓ©ed mushrooms and spinach portion adapted from Martha Stewartβs Sauteed Spinach and Mushrooms Recipe.
Recipe makes 16 bites, Nutritional Information is an estimate for 3 Veggie Pita Pizza Bites.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 5 Serving Size: 3 BitesAmount Per Serving: Calories: 151Total Fat: 5.8gSaturated Fat: 2.2gCholesterol: 10.1mgSodium: 188mgCarbohydrates: 20gFiber: 3.2gSugar: 2.5gProtein: 6.5g
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Tim and I are passionate about helping others learn to cook, eat and enjoy a variety of vegetables because of Our Life Changing Vegucation. A few years back, we contributed recipes to a vegetable-focused ebook.
To celebrate the launch of the ebook the contributors held a virtual launch party. We contributed this pizza bites recipe.
Below you’ll find links to the other tasty appetizer and drink recipes shared. They’re healthy, delicious, and perfect for any fall party.
Pumpkin Apple Wontons – Cooking Up Clean
Pumpkin Kale Smoothie – Fitful Focus
Butternut Squash and Saurkraut Pizza with Fizzy Pumpkin Punch – Parsley and Pumpkins
Simple Spaghetti Squash Cakes – Pumpkins and Peanutbutter
Pesto Stuffed Mushrooms – Real Simple Good
Sweet Potato Casserole Muffins – The Weekly Menu
Lemongrass Ginger Barley Tea – Vermilion Roots
Roasted Beetroot with Crisp Chickpeas – Where is my Spoon?
Sparkling Pear Ginger Cocktail – Will Cook For Friends
Thanks Rachel!
These little pizzas are so cute and colorful!
Hands down the most gorgeous little pizzas I have every seen! Your photos are stunning, and this recipe sounds so good my mouth was watering as soon as you started describing it. Sundried tomatoes? Mushrooms and spinach? Melted mozzarella? Suddenly I’m wishing this weren’t a “virtual” potluck anymore, haha!
So excited for the launch of this book, and so glad to get to meet you and all the other contributors through it!
You’re too kind Willow. I wish we could have shared in person too, the recipes all sound so tasty. A toast to you, the book and of course the pears π
These look amazing!!!! Simply beautiful too π
Thanks Kate it’s been so nice getting meet a bunch of wholesome food bloggers like yourself from contributing to this cookbook -Cheers π
Yum! I love how simple these are but still so beautiful and tasty. Thanks for such a great recipe.
Thanks Kate, we’re all about the simple recipes that’s why I’m so in love with your gorgeous Guacamole Deviled Eggs!
These are the cutest little things – and they look delicious, too! I usually make a whole pizza and freeze the leftovers, but this is a much better idea for a single serving. Hooray for the launch!
Thanks Nicole! Frozen pizza leftovers sound pretty good too π
These are too cute!! This looks like the perfect weeknight meal in my book! Congrats on such an incredible launch π
You’re so sweet Liz. I’m all over your spaghetti squash cakes, just thinking about them and that avocado cream is making me hungry π
I love that you use whole wheat pitas, what a clever idea! Can’t wait to try this, great job π
I hope you like them Eric! If you’re into a thin and crispy crust you can slice the pitas width-wise and separate the two halves for two thin pizzas from one pita. Less crust but more more pizza π
My children will love you for this idea: topping pita bread with pizza stuff, this means they get to eat pizza more often…. π
π I’m thinking of topping my next pita pizza with your roasted beets and chickpeas, they sound so yummy!
I’m really attracted to the colors of vegetables on these bites. Pleasure to meet you through #TheCasualVeggie! π
It’s been nice to meet you too Christine! Colorful veggies are our jam, those mini peppers were the gateway veggie to our healthier snacking habits π
Oh my goodness, this pizza looks like heaven! I love veggie pizzas, they are so tasty! And… very excited about the cookbook!!!!!!
Thanks Lizzy we’re super excited too! Can’t wait to try out your tasty messy recipes that are really so beautiful π