Italian Salad Flatbread
Italian Salad Flatbread
For like two seconds when I was pregnant with my daughter, I craved salad with Italian dressing and garlicky bread. It had to be a salad with crunchy lettuce, salty olives, and spicy peperoncinis. And it had to be creamy Italian dressing. Like had to be or else.
Looking back, I see the reason I craved Italian salad was probably because of the spicy peppers. I craved ALL THE SPICY things when I was pregnant. Thai curry for breakfast, buffalo chicken. If it made me sweat and breathe fire, I wanted it. No, I NEEDED it. Heartburn be damned.
These Mezzetta Peperoncinis are the perfect peppers for this salad. They have a nice kick without being overpowering and a salty briny bite that goes so perfectly with the creamy Italian salad dressing. Not preggo me is pleased. Pregnant me would have been absolutely delighted. And my husband? Well, he loves Mezzetta Peperoncinis so much that he snacks on them straight out of the jar. Needless to say, they make this salad flatbread a huge hit. To find out more about Mezzetta Peperoncinis and enter their Brighten Every Bite giveaway for 52 weeks of meals from Chef’d and get a 10 percent off coupon, check them out here.
Not preggo me is even happier because this flatbread is easy peasy to make. You can go the totally homemade route with this and use a homemade pizza dough recipe like the one from my white pizza with arugula and sundried tomatoes and a homemade salad dressing like I did. Or you can shortcut the heck out of it. You could buy a premade frozen dough or even some naan bread and just coat it in evoo and sprinkle on some garlic and Parm. You could also sub your favorite creamy Italian dressing. Personally though, I always think homemade dressing is worth it.
Either way you go, you just need to toss together some romaine lettuce, precut olives, carrots, and of course peperoncinis. Then spread the salad out on the warm flatbread crust and boom. Dinner is done. And you can eat it feeling so virtuous because it’s salad. But you’ll still feel happy because the flatbread makes it feel like pizza. And eating pizza is pretty much winning at life, right?
Ingredients
For dough
- premade pizza dough or 1 batch of homemade dough
- 1 1/2 tbs olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves crushed
- 4 tbs Parmesan cheese
For salad
- 1 head of romaine hearts chopped
- small can of black olives drained
- 12 Mezzetta Peperoncinis stems removed and halved
- 1 cup of shredded carrots roughly chopped
For dressing
- 1/2 c of olive oil
- 1/4 c sweet white vinegar
- 1 1/2 tbs mayonnaise
- 1 clove of garlic crushed
- 1/2 cup of grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 heaping tbs Italian seasoning
- pinch of red pepper flakes
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Roll the dough out flat onto a large cookie sheet. The dough should be very thin, about a half an inch thick. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and brush with olive oil. Turn on broiler and broil for 90 seconds to crisp the dough up. Top with crushed garlic and Parmesan cheese.
- When the dough is done, toss together the chopped romaine hearts, shredded carrots, olives, and Mezzetta Peperoncinis. Set aside while the dressing is made.
- In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients for the dressing and whisk together until combined. Pour over the salad and toss together.
- Top the flatbread with the salad and enjoy.
Amazing idea! My husband would love this flatbread.
This sounds absolutely amazing! What a great idea, and so tasty! Can’t wait to try it!
This looks so tasty! I love the idea of putting a flavorful Italian salad on flatbread! The perfect appetizer or main. Yum!
Oh my gosh, this looks and sounds SO good right now!!
This looks delicious! Can’t wait to try the recipe! Would make a great appetizer to share at a party.
Oh, this looks so good! We are going to have to try this one, seems like something my husband and I will both enjoy!
This recipe looks so delicious! I love anything that’s on a pizza!~
This looks so good!! I’ll have to save it to my Pinterest to try!
I would totally make this for lunch! 😀
Wow! This look picture perfect. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
This flatbread looks fantastic. I love all the flavors, especially peperoncini.
This looks so delicious. I can’t wait to try it.
I love the idea of a salad on a flatbread! Why have I never tried this before?! Pinning for later 🙂
Looks scrumptious! Perfect Italian flatbread! Can’t wait to try it.
Never thought to put salad on flatbread like this–genius! Sounds so tasty! 🙂
Guess I’ve been living under a rock never heard of peperoncini, it’s time to expand my horizons and discover more stuff. Thank you for sharing.
I won’t buy any other brand when it comes to peperonicini. I loooove them and this brand never lets me down.
Wow this looks delicious thanks for sharing!
I would’ve never thought to add pepperoncinis but it looks heavenly!
I love the idea of a salad flat bread – a delicious way to get your veg in!
I love this! I never thought about using flat bread for my salads.
I am with you, I LOVE peppers! My mouth is actually watering looking at these peppercinis! I cannot wait to make this!
How yummy! I love the looks of this flatbread — and I am over the moon about Mezzetta Peperoncini! This looks fab!
Oh my! This looks delicious, I’ll have to give it a try.
This flatbread looks amazing!! I definitely wanna try making one!
My mouth actually just watered looking at these photos. I am not even kidding. What a great idea!
This looks seriously restaurant-worthy! Definitely need to try this at home soon.
This looks delicious, AND it’s beautiful! Saving this to try with my family! 🙂
This looks so good! I love those peperoncinis. And yes, eating pizza is winning in life 🙂
Oh my, this looks delicious!
Definitely a recipe to try – yum!
Nom nom. I would love to have this in front of me. PInning for later.
Mmm…this Italian Flatbread Salad looks so delicious! And I absolutely love Mezzetta Peperoncini – they’re so flavorful.
OMG I so need this flatbread of deliciousness in my life. WOW, what a great blend of flavors. Thanks for sharing it:)
This is such a great idea. I would’ve never thought of adding the salad on top of flatbread!