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Ingredients
  • 1 pizza dough
  • 3-4 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 cup mozzarella, shredded in flakes
  • 10 bamboo or wooden skewers
Instructions
  1. Soak the skewers in a bowl of water for 20 min. Prepare two baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 400F.

  2. Grease a flat surface with the olive oil. Spread the pizza dough with your hands or usign a rollign pin. Shape it into a rectangle.

  3. Cut the rectangle in half, lenghtwise.

  4. Spread the tomato paste on top of one half of the pizza dough. Sprinkle the mozzarella on top.

  5. Gently place the second half of the dough on top of the first one. Gently press to seal the two pieces like a sandwich.

  6. Cut the dough in 5 long stripes.

  7. Fold each stripe on itself in a zig-zag movement. Form a short fold, than a long one followed by a medium one and end with a short one. You should have a tree shape.

  8. Insert a skewer in the center of the tree and place in on the parchment paper. If needed, fix the shape of the pizza into a triangle, closer to a tree.

  9. Bake the pizza trees in the oven for 18-20 min up until the dough will get a nice golden brown color.