Clam Pizza Verde

What more could you want for the Super Bowl than a great pizza, some spicy, gooey chicken wings, or a platter of crispy, cheesy nachos (see tomorrow's post!)?  Too hard to decide?  Just make 'em all.

This pizza is something to make Pepé's Pizza in New Haven, Connecticut sit up and take notice!
1 pizza dough
1/3 cup salsa verde
One doz fresh shucked clams, or 1 can clams, drained
3/4 cup Monterrey Pepper Jack cheese sliced into matchsticks
3/4 cup Mozzarella cheese, sliced into matchsticks
10 grape tomatoes, sliced in half lengthwise
Palmful cilantro leaves, coarsely chopped
1 avocado, peeled, pitted and sliced
Dash red pepper flakes

Preheat oven to 450F. Roll the pizza dough out to a round to fit your pizza pan or stone. Place on pan or pizza peel. Slather the salsa verde evenly on the pizza dough. Distribute the clams and cheese evenly about the pizza followed by the grape tomatoes and the cilantro leaves.

Place pizza in oven and bake for about 15 minutes, until the pizza is bubbly and the crust is browned.

Remove pizza from oven and transfer to a cutting board. Distribute the avocado slices about the pizza and sprinkle with red pepper flakes. Slice and serve.

Makes one large pizza.