Mushroom and Spinach Flatbread

Let’s talk basic pizza and flatbread ingredients for a moment, shall we? Now, I’m not talking about fancy ingredients, like figs and goat cheese and speck. While those ingredients are fab, they’re still considered fancy, far from basic. Maybe you prefer the basic ingredients, in which case, stop reading and just make the flatbread pizza recipe below. But if you’re used to the fancy stuff, you need to find your peace with the traditional pizza, somehow.

Maybe you’re out of town. Perhaps you’re staying late at work and need to order dinner for the office. Maybe you have to feed a slew of hungry people you don’t know very well. At some point you’re going to be standing at that regular old pizza counter faced with a long list of everyday ingredients, your head spinning, and you’ll be disappointed because the most exotic topping they offer is ham. Ham! We are so used to the crazy stuff at home, and now we have ham as a choice?

The art of ordering a decent pizza from a traditional pizza place could be considered a life skill, even one of the first skills a college kid learns on their own. My advice in these situations is to keep it simple, as the Neapolitans do, sticking to two or three ingredients, max. Everyone has their favorite pair of toppings, and that’s all you need to make it delicious. My favorite? Mushroom and spinach, the best everyday pizza there is, in my humble opinion.

This flatbread brings it back to square one with a mushroom and spinach pizza that shines with a little balsamic vinegar and garlic sautéed mushrooms that are tender and crispy at the same time. There will always be room in my little flatbread heart for this basic yet wonderful pizza. Let the others eat the figs!

-Amy at Flatout