Pizza 2-ways: Vegetable and Carmalized eggplant

So for my out-of-town friend David's last meal here, we made pizzas!


We both made a different kind. David made the veggie pizza, I made the caramelized eggplant pizza. Both were delicious. We used this super easy crust mix.

Here's the recipe to the vegetable pizza:


Vegetable pizza
Ingredients:
1 package pizza crust
1/2 tomato
1/3 medium white onion
1 green chili pepper
1 red hot chili pepper
2/3 cup tomato sauce
4 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese
a dash of dried basil
a dash of salt

Instructions:
1. Make pizza crust and pre-heat oven according to package directions.
2. While the crust is rising, dice the tomato, onion, and both peppers.
3. Oil pizza pan (or jelly roll sheet for square pizza), and spread the crust around. It helps if you oil your hands and/or the dough, since it's pretty sticky.
4. Spread the sauce evenly over the spread-out dough.
5. Sprinkle all the mozzarella cheese over the sauce.
6. Evenly place all the diced vegetables over the cheese, and then sprinkle the basil and salt on top.
7. Bake according to the pizza crust directions.

Caramelized Eggplant pizza
Ingredients:
1 package pizza crust
3 cloves garlic
1/2 white onion
1 small eggplant
olive oil
4 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese
1 oz. Brie cheese

Instructions:
1. Heat up 2 skillet with a generous amount of olive oil in each, on medium heat.
2. Peel and slice into circles the garlic. Place in first pan to start caramelizing.
3. Slice the onion into thin strips, and place into first pan.
4. Slice the eggplant into circles, and place in second pan.
5. Cook the onions and garlic in the first pan until golden, about 15 minutes, and the eggplant until mushy/darker brown, about 15 minutes as well.
6. Make pizza crust and pre-heat oven according to package directions.
7. While dough is rising, dice the Brie cheese.
7. Once crust has risen, oil pizza pan (or jelly roll sheet for square pizza), and spread the crust around. It helps if you oil your hands and/or the dough, since it's pretty sticky.
8. Place about 2 T. of olive oil on the top of the dough, and spread evenly.
9. Sprinkle all the mozzarella cheese over the sauce.
10. Evenly spread the Brie cheese over the top of the pizza.
11. Place the eggplant over the top of the cheese, so they are evenly spread and not touching.
12. Evenly spread the caramelized garlic and onion strips.
13. Bake according to package directions.