Pizza for breakfast?  Why not!   These Individual Prosciutto Breakfast Pizzas are a fun way to incorporate fresh ingredients into something the kids love and won’t expect in the morning.  We make them with farm fresh eggs, ripe tomatoes and wholesome cheese.  Want to make them even easier?  Pre-bake the individual crusts and keep in the freezer for quick and easy mornings.

Why bother to make them fresh?  Check out the ingredient comparison between Bellatoria Sunday Brunch Bacon Scramble Pizzas and our Homemade Individual Prosciutto Breakfast Pizzas below.

Enjoy!

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THE COMPARISON: Bellatoria Sunday Brunch Bacon Scramble (Frozen)  vs. Out of the Box Food Individual Prosciutto Breakfast Pizzas

(All ingredients followed by an * can be referenced at www.wikipedia.org by clicking on the ingredient)

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Bellatoria Sunday Brunch Bacon Scramble (Frozen)

Ingredients:

TOPPINGS:

• Creamy White Gravy:
  • water
  • modified corn starch
  • nonfat dairy creamer
    • partially hydrogenated soy bean oil*
    • corn syrup solids
    • potassium caseinate
    • sugar
    • dipotasium phosphate
    • mono and di-glycerides
    • salt
    • sodium stearoyl lactate
    • carrageenan*
    • artificial flavor
    • extract of tumeric and annatto
  • nonfat dry milk
  • salt
  • dextrose
  • maltodextrin
  • whey
  • natural flavors including butter, spice, onion powder, autolyzed yeast extract, torula yeast, hydrolyzed soy protein, disodium inosinate and guanylate, chicken fat.
• SCRAMBLED EGGS
  • whole eggs
  • skim milk
  • soybean oil
  • modified food starch
  • salt
  • xanthan gum
  • liquid pepper extract
  • citric acid
  • artificial butter flavor
    • butter (cream, milk)
      • partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil
      • soybean oil lypolyzed butter oil
      • flavors and artificial flavors
• CHEESE
  • low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese
    • pasturized part skim milk
    • cheese cultures
    • salt
    • enzymes
• CHEDDAR CHEESE
  • pasteurized milk
  • salt
  • cheese cultures
  • enzymes
  • annatto
• BACON
  • pork cured with:
    • water
    • salt
    • sugar
    • may contain smoke flavoring
    • sodium phosphate
    • sodium erythorbate
    • sodium nitrite*
• BISCUIT STYLE CRUST
  • enriched flour
    • wheat flour
    • enzyme
    • niacin
    • reduced iron
    • thiamine mononitrate
    • riboflavin
    • folic acid
  • water
  • soybean oil
  • partially hydrogenated vegetable oil
  • unsweetened concentrate
  • yeast
  • dextrose
  • salt
  • calcium propionate (preservative)
  • dough conditioner (sodium metabisulfite)

WHEW…….

**All listed product ingredients are taken from product’s package label.  Though Out of the Box Food makes every effort to provide complete ingredient information, please check the package for the most current information.

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Individual Prosciutto Breakfast Pizzas

Makes: 8 individual pizzas

Cook Time: 10-12 minutes

Special Equipment: Pizza stone or baking sheet, pizza paddle or large spatula

Ingredients:

• Out of the Box Food Pizza Dough
• 8 teaspoons  Out of the Box Food’s Fresh & Easy Pizza Sauce
• 16 tablespoons shredded Mozzarella cheese
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 8 slices Prosciutto, sliced into horizontal strips
• Flour for surface

Directions:

Night Before:

• For morning ease, pre-make pizza dough the night before, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate until morning.

Morning of:

• Preheat oven and pizza stone (or baking sheet) to 500 degrees.
• While oven is preheating, take pizza dough out of refrigerator and let sit at room temperature for 15 minutes.
• Whisk together eggs and sea salt.  Set aside.
• On a floured surface, divide dough into 8 equal pieces and shape each piece into a ball by tucking edges under.
• Gently stretch dough ball into a circle, being careful not to tear the dough.  Roll dough into a 5″ circle. (if dough is not rolling out, let sit longer at room temperature)
• Lay dough round onto a floured pizza paddle or large spatula.
• Slice 1 piece of prosciutto into horizontal strips
• Spread dough round with 1 teaspoon Sun Dried Tomato Pesto.  Top with 2 tablespoons shredded mozzarella then drizzle 2 tablespoons egg mixture over the cheese.  Top with sliced prosciutto.
• Slide pizza onto hot pizza stone (or baking sheet) and bake 10 minutes or until browned and bubbling.
• Repeat with remaining dough balls to create 8 pizzas.

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Until next time….