Roasted Vegetable Pizza with Ghost Pepper Sauce

I made a mistake the other day that actually worked to my benefit.

Mr. TCW brought home a bunch of homegrown hot peppers from a coworkers garden and left me with the task of working with them. I was super excited because we love spicy meals and he had happened to bring home a ghost pepper. If you don't know what a ghost pepper is, I will explain it to you. The ghost pepper is one of the hottest peppers on the Scoville scale. We were first introduced to it at a common Mexican cuisine franchise here in Canada. It is super spicy and we love it! However, I had never actually worked with a fresh ghost pepper.

I was saving the ghost pepper for another meal and decided to use up some of the other peppers in the bag. I had already used the "7-pot chili pepper" as well as another type that I cannot remember. I decided to use the Peter Pepper, aka penis pepper, as it didn't appear as spicy to me (and we were sharing this pizza with Girlie.) So I get to work, make the sauce  and throw in the pepper. I taste the sauce a long the way and find a bit of heat but nothing too overwhelming. Finally, I put together the pizza and bake it just in time for dinner. I immediately took pictures and within seconds of completing that task, I inhaled the slice of pizza. It was outstanding! Loved it from the very first bite! The sauce had a kick to it, but nothing too extreme. I even got Girlie a slice and her reaction was "it's good, spicy, need water, but good." It made me laugh.

Then Mr. TCW tried the pizza and I showed him how I still had the ghost pepper left to make another dish and that's when he hit me with the fact that no ghost pepper remained in the bag. I said "impossible, it is right here." And he told me that was the Peter pepper and not the ghost pepper... I even doubled checked online, but sure enough, I had used the ghost pepper!

And that brings us to our roasted vegetable pizza with ghost pepper sauce! See, sometimes mistakes workout to our benefit. I am not sure if I would have ever used the ghost pepper in a pizza sauce, but now that I have, there is no going back! I am actually sad we don't have more because this ghost pepper sauce was so good, I can't imagine making the sauce without it!

(Here is my homemade pizza dough recipe.)

As for the pizza itself, the roasted veggies were initially going to be for a pasta sauce. I cooked the veggies and before I went ahead to make the sauce, Mr. TCW surprised us with dinner. I didn't want the vegetables to go to waste, so I used them for the pizza the next day. I did only use half the above recipe for my pizza, but for an extra-loaded pizza, you can use the whole batch!

If spice is not your thing, I would advice against the ghost pepper. This roasted vegetable pizza is perfect without the spicy sauce (where you can just omit the hot peppers.) Or feel free to use a less spicy hot pepper. Personally, the ghost pepper sauce makes this pizza for me, but then again, I have not tried other hot peppers with it! I cannot wait to make it again, and trust me, there will be an again!

*I have classified this pizza as vegan and gluten-free because more or less I am referring to the awesome sauce! Be sure to use a gluten-free and/or vegan pizza dough, as well as omitting the cheese if needed.