Spinach Pesto Pizza Toasts
Fun, veggie-packed, easy cooking activity for kids!
Ingredients
- 8 slices sandwich bread any kind
- 1/2 cup Easy Spinach Pesto, store bought pesto, or other sauce
- Bell peppers, thinly sliced into strips red, yellow, and orange
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese or dairy-free alternative
Easy Spinach Pesto
- 3 packed cups baby spinach
- 1/4 cup sliced or slivered almond or any nut or seed like walnuts or pumpkin seeds
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp honey optional
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup oil I like to use half olive oil and half avocado oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
- Cut each slice of bread into a shape using a cookie cutter or leave it whole, if you wish. Place bread on the pan and toast it in the oven for 2 minutes or until every lightly browned.
- Cut pepper strips into tiny little squares. Once bread is toasted and cool enough to handle, spread with pesto, top with a sprinkle of cheese, and decorate with pepper “ornaments.” We like to put a yellow piece right at the top of the tree to look like a star.
- Bake pizzas until cheese is melted, 3 to 5 minutes. Enjoy warm.
- For Pesto: Add all the ingredients besides the oil into a food processor. Blend to chop everything finely. With the food processor running, stream in a ¼ cup of oil. Stop and scrape down the sides of the processor bowl then continue to blend until smooth.Add additional oil or a splash of water to thin out pesto if needed. Try pesto and add more salt or lemon juice to taste. Store pesto in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.