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Hemp Flour Pizza with Zucchini Blossoms, Walnuts & Mushrooms

chose these ingredients because I wanted to create a planet-friendly, sustainable dishwithout compromising the taste of it: hemp flour is next level, I love using it to make any sort of dough, bread, focaccia, pizza... not only it is a very tasty food, but hemp is also a very sustainable crop that renews very fast and doesn’t need any fertiliser or pesticide thanks to its resilience; zucchini blossoms are a delicious and versatile ingredient that you can use for so many preparations and guess what, they’re incredibly tasty. I paid particular attention in selecting the mozzarella cheese, choosing to source it from a local dairy farm that operates in asustainable, ethical manner-if you want a vegan option you can try and swap it with some vegan mozzarella or why not, add some crumbled fresh tofu! As an Italian who is very passionate about food, I like to pay great attention to the provenience and seasonality of the ingredients I use and the overall nutritional value of the dishes that I make.That is how I came up with this pizza recipe (as stereotypical as it can get, I really can’t live without pizza!) that features ingredients that are in large part -if not entirely- grown around the area where I live, in season around this time of year til the beginning of summer, sourced from local farmers whenever possible. Another great advantage of this recipe is that its nutritional values are way higher than the average pizza, with hemp flour’s high protein content, good fats from walnuts and a fair bit of micronutrients from the mushrooms and zucchini blossoms.

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