Description

This Cheap-as-Chips Veggie Pizza recipe is an easy and budget-friendly way to enjoy homemade pizza using simple ingredients like Middle Eastern flatbreads, spinach, mozzarella, and eggs. Baked at a high temperature, these pizzas feature a crispy base topped with flavorful passata, garlic, and fresh herbs, finished with a perfectly cooked egg in the center. It’s a delicious, quick meal perfect for sharing.

Ingredients

Scale

Base and Sauce

200g carton passata
Pack of 5 large Middle Eastern flatbreads

Toppings

½ x 750g bag frozen spinach, defrosted
1 garlic clove, chopped
3 balls mozzarella, patted dry and torn
5 medium eggs
Freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
Small bunch basil
Shaved parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), to serve

Instructions

Preheat the oven. Heat the oven to as high as it will go to ensure a hot baking environment for a perfectly crispy base.
Prepare flatbreads with sauce and toppings. Spread 1-2 tablespoons of passata evenly over each flatbread as the pizza base sauce. Squeeze as much water as possible from the defrosted spinach to prevent sogginess, then scatter the spinach on top of the passata, leaving the center clear for the egg. Divide the chopped garlic and torn mozzarella evenly over the flatbreads, seasoning generously with salt and pepper as you go.
Bake pizzas with eggs. Place two prepared pizzas on a baking tray at a time. Carefully crack an egg into the center of each pizza where there is no spinach, being careful not to break the yolk. Season the eggs with freshly grated nutmeg and some basil leaves. Bake in the hot oven for about 7 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the eggs are cooked to your preferred level.
Repeat baking for remaining pizzas. After the first two pizzas are baked, repeat the baking process with the remaining pizzas, passata, spinach, garlic, mozzarella, eggs, nutmeg, and basil.
Serve and garnish. Once all pizzas are cooked, garnish them with extra fresh basil and shaved parmesan or a vegetarian alternative. Cut the pizzas into slices and share among everyone.

Notes

Make sure to squeeze out as much water from the spinach as possible to avoid soggy pizza bases.
You can bake only two pizzas at a time to ensure proper cooking and crispiness.
Adjust the cooking time slightly depending on how runny or firm you like your eggs.
The high oven temperature is key to getting a crispy and satisfying pizza base using flatbread.

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 14 minutes (7 minutes per batch)
Category: Pizza
Method: Baking
Cuisine: Middle Eastern-inspired

Keywords: veggie pizza, flatbread pizza, spinach pizza, budget-friendly pizza, easy pizza recipe, homemade pizza