Mini Caprese Pizzas Recipe

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Looking for a flavorful snack or appetizer? These mini Caprese pizzas will do the trick and delight your tastebuds!

These little mini caprese pizzas are perfect for parties and family gatherings. You can make them for any special occasion or holiday.

Mini Caprese Pizzas Recipe

I love adding these to our bento box lunches. They’re not bad cold but if you want to heat them up you can. If you plan to make these ahead of time for your lunch, wait to drizzle on the balsamic glaze until after it’s heated.

Items Needed:

Naan Bread: You can purchase your own mini naan rounds or make homemade naans. Homemade breads and buns are always better in my opinion! But for the sake of this recipe, we will use premade naan rounds.

Pizza Sauce: Choose your favorite pizza sauce. You can also go with marinara sauce but we prefer a nicely flavored pizza sauce. You can use store bought pizza sauce or homemade pizza sauce.

Mozzarella: Shredded mozzarella is the easiest to use these for mini caprese pizzas. It melts quickly and allows you to control how much mozzarella cheese you want on the pizzas.

Cherry Tomatoes: For these pizza capri minis, we use cherry tomatoes. We cut the cherry tomatoes into slices so that they can be evenly spread out around the pizza.

Arugula: The arugula will be added at the end. This will give the pizzas some texture, greens, and flavor.

Basil Leaves: Thinly cut basil leaves are going to add some extra flavor to our mini caprese pizzas. You want super thin leave and we will explain an easy way to do that with the recipe!

Balsamic Glaze: Once the pizzas are finished baking, adding the balsamic glaze will take these mini pizzas up a notch.

Black Pepper: You can add a pinch of black pepper to each of the mini caprese pizzas if you’d like. This is optional and you can add more or less of the black pepper if you decide to add it.

Don’t they look delicious! I can’t wait to share this recipe with you. Just sharing this recipe is making me so hungry for these mini caprese pizzas!

This recipe makes 6 mini caprese pizzas with naan bread. You can double or triple the recipe to make more if you need them.

If you’re hosting a party and serving these mini naan bread pizzas as an appetizer, I would definitely alter the recipe depending on the number of guests.

Caprese Naan Bread Mini Pizzas

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 15-20 minutes
Servings: 6

Ingredients:

• 6 mini naan rounds
• ½ cup pizza sauce
• ½ cup shredded mozzarella
• ¼ cup cherry tomatoes
• ¼ cup arugula
• 3-4 basil leaves
• 1 tbsp balsamic glaze
• 1 tsp of black pepper (optional)

Instructions:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• While the oven is preheating, slice the cherry tomatoes and cut the basil leaves thinly. To make cutting the basil easy, place them on top of each other, roll them together, and finely chop them.
• Place the mini naan rounds on a baking sheet and evenly spread the 1/2 cup of pizza sauce over the mini rounds.
• Next, evenly layer the shredded cheese, cherry tomatoes, and sliced basil on top of the mini pizzas.
• Season each of the pizzas with just a pinch of black pepper if you want. You can add more if you’d like.
• Place the sheet pan with the pizzas in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until the cheese is fully melted and the edges of the crust are to your liking.
• Once they are finished cooking, top the pizzas with some arugula and drizzle them with the balsamic glaze.

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