Ingredients
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2 (13 7/8 ounce) cans refrigerated ready-made pizza dough or 2 (10 7/8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
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8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
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1/2 cup mayonnaise or 1/2 cup low-fat mayonnaise
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1 (1 ounce) package dry ranch dressing mix
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1/2 head fresh broccoli, top florets only
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1 bunch spring onion, including tops, thinly sliced
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1 -2 fresh ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeds removed, diced
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1/2 cucumber, peeled, seeds removed, diced
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4 ounces grated sharp cheddar cheese (1 cup) or 4 ounces shredded parmesan cheese (1 cup)
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thinly sliced celery
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grated carrot
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sliced and diced summer squash
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sliced green olives or black olives
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thinly sliced purple onion, chopped
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minced red bell peppers or green bell pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Lightly grease 17x11 rectangular cookie sheet or a 16-ounce pizza pan.
- Press pizza dough into pan to form a crust.
- Bake as directed on package until crust is done and just slightly browned on top.
- Do not overbake.
- Cool.
- Mix Sauce ingredients together and spread over cooled crust.
- Prepared all of the vegetables of choice by dicing them into very small pieces, placing each vegetable in a separate bowl or stack.
- ***Pay special attention to the tomatoes, as you need to drain these on paper towels to remove all excess moisture.
- Blot both top and bottom of tomatoes until they are dry.
- ***Sprinkle each vegetable, along with the cheese, evenly over the pizza, covering the cream cheese sauce in a decorative fashion.
- Cover entire pizza with plastic wrap and gently press toppings into the cream cheese.
- Refrigerate until serving time.
- (I prefer to refrigerate overnight to let flavors blend.) Cut into small, appetizer servings (about 1"x1") (I use a pizza cutter for this).
- Don't be tempted to add too many toppings to this pizza.
- Toppings need to adhere to cream cheese to make it neater to serve and eat; however, I always have some topping fall away when I cut this.
- ***I have kept this pizza in the refrigerator for several days, and it was still very delicious.
- SUBSTITUTE any of the toppings you like in place of the ones listed.
- I always select toppings that have a variety of complementary colors for a pretty presentation.