Grilled Sourdough Pizza With Tomato Pesto

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup prepared pesto sauce
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 12 ounces fresh mozzarella balls, thick sliced
• 1/4 cup sliced black olives
• 2 large thick slices sourdough bread
• extra-virgin olive oil
• ground black pepper, to taste
• 2 medium tomatoes, thickly sliced
• 2 fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced

Recipe

• 1 heat a grill to high (note if your grill gets super hot, you might want to do this on med-high).
• 2 in a small bowl, whisk together the pesto and tomato paste.
• 3 drizzle both slices of the bread on both sides with olive oil. grill the bread until it is lightly toasted on the bottom.
• 4 remove the bread from the grill. spread half of the pesto mixture over the toasted side of each slice of bread.
• 5 top the pesto with tomato slices, then mozzarella slices and black olives. season with pepper, then return to the grill.
• 6 cover, reduce heat to low, and grill until the bottoms are toasted and the cheese has melted, about 10 minutes. sprinkle with basil.