Peanut Butter Lime Pizza

[NWC]

I know it sounds awful, that's what everyone says until I offer them a bit and they reluctantly take it, then I have to stop them from stealing my lunch. Anyway yeah it's delicious.

Note: This dish can be enjoyed hot or cold, but if you decide to eat it hot, put the lime juice on after microwaving.

Ok, so you take a bagel(or a pizza crust, but I usually use a bagel, they taste a bit better that way I think), cut in half, and spread peanut butter on it. Usually I eat natural peanut butter that I make myself at work sans added salt, sugar, or oil, but for this dish get something salty and with a little bit of oil to it. Then you add the pizza sauce, I usually use Contadina Pizza Squeeze because we keep it in the house, but go with whatever you have around. Add your cheese(for 5 years I used fake cheese, but it's oh so much better now with real cheese), shredded preferably. (this would be the time to microwave your pizza if you wish to do so.) Then spritz a little lime juice on top, and tilt the bagel to let any extra lime juice drip off(unless you're like me, and you really, really like lime juice). Enjoy!

I know this sounds disgusting, but it's one of my favorite dishes, and it's super easy to make.

It works because first of all, it's already pizza. Then you add the peanut butter, which gives it some substance and fills you up. That by itself might be a bit too heavy, so the lime juice counterbalances that with a bit of sour and sweet. The pizza sauce also has a bit of acidic nature to it, but not too much. Everyone likes the ingredients in different proportions, and some only use a drop or two of lime or none at all, but if you get it right, it's phenomenal.

[Triple Zero]

sounds interesting, but questions:

- i made my own peanutbutter a couple of times. it's very easy. just throw some peanuts in a blender. but you need some oil with it otherwise it won't blend properly. doesn't taste right without a pinch of salt either, imo. and i don't think dutch peanutbutter has sugar in it, ever (it's 93-99% peanuts, anyway).

- pizza sauce = basically spiced tomato sauce for on pizzas, right?

- microwave: is this just to melt the cheese, or to actually cook it?

doesn't it go into the oven? or did you skip that step?

i think i'm gonna try this tonight, will post pics

[NWC]

sounds interesting, but questions:

- i made my own peanutbutter a couple of times. it's very easy. just throw some peanuts in a blender. but you need some oil with it otherwise it won't blend properly. doesn't taste right without a pinch of salt either, imo. and i don't think dutch peanutbutter has sugar in it, ever (it's 93-99% peanuts, anyway).

- pizza sauce = basically spiced tomato sauce for on pizzas, right?

- microwave: is this just to melt the cheese, or to actually cook it?

doesn't it go into the oven? or did you skip that step?

i think i'm gonna try this tonight, will post pics

Yeah the peanut butter I make at work is just ground peanuts, no oil or anything, but it ends up being too thick for this dish, and I don't think there's enough salt.

You got it on the pizza sauce. Whatever herbs/spices you like on pizza mixed with a tomato sauce. I just go with the bottled stuff because it's convenient and my stepdad keeps it stocked in our fridge.

The microwave just melts the cheese, but I usually eat it cold. None of the ingredients really need to be cooked, it's just a matter of preference. I usually decide based on how cold it is outside. If I'm ambivalent, I microwave one of the bagel halves so I have a bit of each.

Have fun

[NWC]

I just made this for lunch, I ended up doing one hot and one cold. I only had JIF peanut butter, which I would usually never use, but it still turned out well. I'll post some pics later

[AFK]

Please say these are "before" pictures. 

[Triple Zero]

so i didn't make it last time because i was too lazy and also a littlebit frightened, but i did now!

a photo report:



i haven't tasted it yet, but i'm very hungry

[Triple Zero]

hm it doesn't knock me right off my feet (like the salmon teriyaki stuff did), but it's not bad either.

kinda grows on you as well.

definitely filling

[Triple Zero]

ururughruhgurgughghghhh

that peanutbutter pizza sits like a brick in my stomach

i should have known better! 

[Sepia]

2 layers of cheese
2 layers of tomato sauce
and what appears to be one thick layer of peanut butter


you're crazy man



It might have worked on more palates if you did it from scratch, your own dough and perhaps the peanut butter mixed with the lime and or some creme fraiche. still had to be a damned thin layer though. for cheese if I really was going to do this, I'd have picked some mozzarella and perhaps some brie, perhaps added a few peanuts aswell to get some natural crunch and then into the oven, taking it out

some salad might have been good on top of that.. ruccola and spinach perhaps tossed with lime and a wee spoon of kecap manis might do the trick.


the best "weird good" pizza I've tasted was 50/50 tomato sauce/creme fraiche, standard pizza cheese (this was crap cheddar and fake mozarella), smoked salmon and leek

wasn't very good but better than any non anchovy seafood pizza I've tried

[Triple Zero]

i used young-aged gouda cheese, because it's readily available here.

a good "augmented" pizza i made once, is a premade oven pizza with salami (or pepperoni), topped with crumbled cheese-onion crisps, topped with moar grated cheese. it's a pretty good combo, not really the height of culinary fashion, or nutrition for that matter, but good nonetheless

for actual normal pizzas i prefer the Napoletana, of which the basic recipe is tomato sauce, anchovy, capers and mozarella. which should look a little something like this (this one also has basil, black olives and fresh tomatoes but that doesnt count, it's just random extra stuff :-P):



mind that this is obviously an italian pizza, and american pizzas are a whole different beast. i've had numerous (USA) people go at me, "what? capers on a pizza? weird!", but as you and i know, capers are one of those integral flavourfull ingredients part of the italian kitchen.

hence, i don't really get a purist about people putting pineapple on their pizzas. pineapple, ham, onions. makes a pretty good pizza topping IMO. i hardly have it, because i like other toppings better. but if i consider it american pizza, not italian pizza, which has different type of dough for the crust anyways (american = thicker + more fluffy afaik), who's to say what's traditional and what isn't?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

the picture above this post just made me so hungry that my stomach just tried to eat itself.

damn that looks good!

[NWC]

Sorry it wasn't as spectacular as described, but I'm glad it wasn't awful.

I'll get around to posting the pics I took the other day, mine turned out slightly messy looking but it was delicious.

And yeah, that peanut butter hits pretty hard if you eat alot of it. That's why I usually stick to bagels, the two halves are very filling with the peanut butter on them.

[PeregrineBF]

Peanuts are a food of evil, along with avocados. To me, they taste like nausea. The worst is bacon. That is delicious nausea.
So this must be tried with almond butter. Or perhaps sunflower-seed butter.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Capers are Satan's little pickled flowerbuds.

[Dysnomia]

I'll do the peanut butter on a toasted bagel for breakfast...but I just had a week of the stomach flu...and don't want to repeat it with the peanut butter pizza.   

The pizza 000 posted looks nomy though, though I'd take off the olives and cut tomatoes before eating.

IMO, pesto pizza is the nomiest though.  MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM