Zucchini Pizza Bites
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Zucchini Pizza Bites layer pizza sauce, mozzarella, bread crumbs, and pepperoni onto zucchini rounds for an oven-baked take on pizza-inspired toppings. Each round is assembled separately, so the sauce, cheese, crumbs, and pepperoni stay portioned across the sliced zucchini.
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Watch How to Make It
This recipe uses a large zucchini cut into 1/4-inch rounds and bakes the prepared rounds at 375°F. Let them cool after baking before enjoying them.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
These Zucchini Pizza Bites use zucchini as the base for pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, Italian bread crumbs, and pepperoni. The toppings are added directly to each round rather than being combined ahead of time.
The assembly keeps each zucchini round separate on the cookie sheet. Every round receives salt, sauce, mozzarella, bread crumbs, and one pepperoni before going into the oven.
Ingredients You'll Need
The edible ingredients are a large zucchini, pizza sauce or marinara sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, Italian bread crumbs, pepperoni, salt, and avocado oil. Slice the zucchini into 1/4-inch rounds before assembling the bites.
Pizza sauce or marinara sauce can be used for the sauce layer. The mozzarella goes over the sauce, followed by Italian bread crumbs and a pepperoni on each zucchini round.
How To Make It
Spread the zucchini rounds out on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Spray a light layer of oil before putting down the rounds. Sprinkle some salt over each round.
Add a 1/2 tbsp of sauce to each round. Cover each round with mozzarella cheese.
Sprinkle some of the bread crumbs over each round. Place one pepperoni on each round.
Add to a 375f oven for 20-25 minutes. Remove form the oven, let cool and enjoy.
Serving & Variations
Serve the zucchini pizza bites after they have cooled. The recipe uses either pizza sauce or marinara sauce, so choose one of those two sauce options when assembling the rounds.
For a consistent topping setup, use one pepperoni on every round as directed. The bread crumbs are sprinkled over each individual round after the mozzarella is added.
Slice the large zucchini into 1/4 inch rounds. Use pizza sauce or marinara sauce, adding 1/2 tablespoon to each zucchini round. Bake them in a 375F oven for 20-25 minutes. Each round is topped with salt, sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, Italian bread crumbs, and one pepperoni. Yes, remove them from the oven and let them cool before enjoying.Frequently Asked Questions
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Wrapping Up
These zucchini pizza bites follow a direct order of zucchini, sauce, mozzarella, bread crumbs, and pepperoni. Let them cool after baking, then enjoy.
Recipe created by cookingwithcj for Trust Me Try It.
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Ingredients
- Large Zucchini Sliced into 1/4” rounds.
- Pizza sauce or Marinara sauce.
- Shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Italian bread crumbs.
- Pepperoni.
- Salt.
- Avocado oil.
Instructions
- Spread the zucchini rounds out on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Spray a light layer of oil before putting down the rounds.
- Sprinkle some salt over each round.
- Add a 1/2 tbsp of sauce to each round.
- Cover each round with mozzarella cheese.
- Sprinkle some of the bread crumbs over each round.
- Place one pepperoni on each round.
- Add to a 375f oven for 20-25 minutes.
- Remove form the oven, let cool and enjoy.
