A Splash of Color

When it comes to persuading kids to make healthy eating choices, appearance helps. This pizza makes a great collaborative cooking experience as kids can easily help lay out the rainbow of veggies on fiber-packed whole-grain dough. Arrayed over a spread of pesto, the vegetables require no further cheese or sauce to provide an amazing meal your whole family will delight in.

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Rainbow Pizza

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If you’re looking for a healthy pizza option that makes eating veggies both fun and delicious, then bookmark this recipe now. Easy enough to make on a weeknight and healthy enough to indulge in often, this will become a new go-to for pizza night, whether you have kids or not.

Servings: 8 (216 g )

Prep Time: 10 min.

Cook Time: 50 min.

Ingredients

  • 5 baby purple potatoes, diced
  • 1 lb. whole-wheat pizza dough
  • 4 Tbsp. pesto
  • ½ green bell pepper, diced
  • ½ yellow summer squash, diced
  • ½ orange bell pepper, diced
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved

Directions

  1.  Preheat oven to 400ºF.
  2. Arrange potatoes on a baking sheet. Roast for 20 minutes.
  3. Roll the pizza crust out on a flat surface. Evenly spoon the pesto over the crust.
  4. Arrange the vegetables in the order of the colors of a rainbow.
  5. Place back in the oven and bake 20 minutes.