Healthy Homemade Pizza Recipes...?

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  • jeanine89
    jeanine89 Posts: 95 Member
    HAVE YOUR PIZZA!!!!
    If, you completely deny yourself your favorite foods your more likely to cheat. Order a small or medium pizza and only take one or two slices and put it with a giant salad. If you live alone freeze the rest of the pizza in ziplocks (pre portioned) it will last months. :wink:
  • Thamantha
    Thamantha Posts: 102 Member
    We have homemade pizzas, topped with cheese and veggies.
    The recipe we used last time came from here:
    http://step-by-step-cook.co.uk/mains/pizza/?persons=2&units=Metric

    It can take a little longer to make your pizza from scratch so we sometimes make more than we need of the dough and the sauce, and then freeze them for another time.

    Having it homemade gives you much more control on calories and flavours, and I find it to be more filling.

    One of the restaurants in the UK does a healthy pizza option where the centre of the pizza has been removed and replaced with a tasty salad, which I think is great.
  • I LOVE pizza!! Pizza never has to be a bad thing. It's what you put on it that makes it bad! I love Trader Joe's Marinara as my base and use your favorite yeast risen dough, then:

    fresh basil
    fresh mozzerella (the one stored in water)
    sliced roma tomatoes.
    fresh ground black pepper
    Add your sliced tomatoes, chunks or slices of fresh mozzarella and black pepper, bake until the crust is golden brown, then tear pieces of fresh basil on top!

    another one:
    goat cheese (3 oz or so)
    proscuitto
    thin sliced zucchini
    drizzle of truffle oil (or olive oil will be delicious too)
    Crumble your goat cheese and add finely slice proscuitto pieces and thinly sliced zucchini, bake until crust is golden brown and drizzle a little bit of truffle oil or olive olive when done. DELICIOUS!

    Here's another tip: if you have a pizza stone, use your gas or charcoal grill to get the stone nice and HOT. It will get much hotter in a grill than in the oven. You have have much better results as your crust will be crispy.

    If you go easy on the toppings, each slice will come out to be about 200 cals!!
  • what is naan bread and where can you get it?
  • what is naan bread and where can you get it?

    It is an flat Indian bread often served with olive oil and garlic, most Mediterranean markets carry it as does Trader Joes and I think, Whole Foods.
  • Kaecklund
    Kaecklund Posts: 191 Member
    Oooooh I got one here and it's delicious! 150 cals/each. Not traditional pizza...

    4 portabello mushroom caps
    4 roma tomatoes, chopped
    1 leek, chopped
    1 onion, chopped
    1 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice
    fresh grated parmesan cheese
    4 basil leaves, chopped
    olive oil for sauteeing - I use about 2 TBSP (that's where most of the cals come from)

    Sautee the onions until soft. Add the leek, tomatoes and basil. Sautee until soft and stir in lemon juice. Spread on top of mushroom caps and top with parmesan cheese. I cooked them in a baking dish and they were a little juicy and slippery on the bottom of the mushroom. Next time I think I will try it in a broiler pan. I LOVED them. I had 2 and was full. My boyfriend liked them too and he doesn't usually like "healthy" stuff like that.

    Enjoy!

    I tried to post a picture - not sure if it will upload:
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  • Kaecklund
    Kaecklund Posts: 191 Member
    what is naan bread and where can you get it?

    It is an flat Indian bread often served with olive oil and garlic, most Mediterranean markets carry it as does Trader Joes and I think, Whole Foods.

    Emeril's naan is good... If you could substitute whole wheat flour maybe? I make it with my Chicken Tikka Masala and it turns out great! Not sure how to minimize the oil though...
    http://www.emerils.com/recipe/4422/Naan-Bread
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  • AmazingStace
    AmazingStace Posts: 92 Member
    I just made a cauliflower crust for a pizza last night and it was AMAZING! I was skeptical at first, but it didn't really taste like cauliflower, and half a pizza was 314 calories. I'll definitely be making it a weekly treat on Saturday nights!
  • kristlynngirl
    kristlynngirl Posts: 121 Member
    Made one today with a Flatout Wheat Wrap in the toaster oven, toasted both sides, topped with Ragu Pizza sauce, Kraft Pizza Blend cheese and fresh chopped green peppers and baby poratbella mushrooms! YUM!
  • maritza327
    maritza327 Posts: 100 Member
    I just found this recipe looking through the posts. Delicious...you would never know

    http://blog.yourlighterside.com/2009/05/low-carb-pizza-dough-cauliflower.html
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