Vegetable Pizza

Hayden eats broccoli and potato, but apart from that refuses all vegetables. Since I started letting him cook them, he has started eating raw carrot sticks so that's a start anyway. The good thing about a pizza recipe is that you can use a whole range of vegetables. I lay them all out and encourage him to smell, lick, taste and play. He then makes the pizza and gets to try the finished result for lunch. I would say, depending on the amount of different vegetables, this all took about an hour all in, but we weren't doing it for speed obviously!

Recipe
Half teaspoon of yeast
300g white flour
Olive oil
160-180 mls of water (this will depend on how much flour little one grabs out of the mix!)
A variety of vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, legumes, mushrooms and anything you happen to have that can be tasted raw
Some cheese, grated, about 30g
Some tomato ketchup or tinned chopped tomatoes

Method
Throw everything except the vegetables in a bowl. Mix, splodge, squidge, kneed and splat until it resembles a dough. Leave for about ten minutes in a warm place. Meanwhile explore all the vegetables. Talk about the textures and colour. Encourage little one to taste them and smell them. Use plenty of encouragement and praise to get them interested.

Spread the pizza dough on a greased baking tray. Spread the sauce or chopped tomatoes on the pizza base. Add the vegetables and finally the cheese.

Cook in the oven at around 220C/425F/Gas Mark 7 for about 15 mins.