I was feeling uninspired the other day so I asked my facebook friends to throw out ideas of things I could make for dinner, keeping in mind I am dieting. Within a few minutes, several people posted "Pizza" to which I rolled my eyes, and laughed. Pizza is not diet food! Then it dawned on me, what if I could make naughty favorites, taste good, AND BE GOOD FOR YOU? I was on a mission.
Here is my recipe for Fancy Margarita Pizza, where a slice is only 144 calories, you can have 2-3 slices at dinner, maybe even a salad and still be in a good place calorie intake wise, plus big flavor and so easy to make!
My local WholeFoods offers fresh pizza dough you can buy 11oz for under $2, and thats enough for a whole pizza. I've purchased it before, but the regular dough is kinda high in calories, so I tried their Wheat pizza dough. For the whole pizza dough its 660 calories, then you got toppings.
I love margarita pizza's but I always want to add a bit extra flavors... this time my toppings were Garlic, Onion, Mushrooms, Spinach, Tomato, Basil, Mozzarella and Goat cheese!
The fresh pizza dough is a little tricky to get out on the pan anyway, but I did notice the wheat is even more sticky, so make sure you put a TINY pit of olive oil on the bottom on the pan, to help loosen it up. Just stretch and pull gently until it fills the pizza pan.
Top with Ragu spaghetti sauce (I just had some left over), 1/4 cup of mozzarella, and a little less then a 1/4 cup of goat cheese. (save a little for the top)
Add tomato, mushrooms, basil, spinach, garlic, onion...
and then 1/4 more of mozzarella and the rest of the 1/4 of goat cheese (honestly this was a little heavy on the goat cheese, tasted good, but I think a little less would be good too, and then LESS calories! I really like putting a light coating of olive oil on the crust before baking - I think it really helps get it a nice texture and color.
Bake at 375 for approx 20-30 minutes (whenever it's melty and toasted)
And voila - super flavorful, super easy pizza for under 150 calories a slice!!!!
Who said that pizza wasn't healthy!?
Ingredients: (calories per 2 slices)
Fresh Wheat Pizza Dough (165)
Ragu Spaghetti Sauce (11) (I believe I used 1/2 cup on the whole pizza, really don't need a ton)
Mozzarella (40)
Goat Cheese (20)
Olive Oil (15 for 0.13 tbsp) - seriously use as little as possible, olive oil is tasty, but SUPER HIGH IN CALORIES!
Garlic (2) (used about 2-3 cloves on the whole pizza)
Red Onion (1 tbsp = 4 calories)
Basil leaves (1 tbsp chopped = 1 calorie)
Mushrooms (13 calories)
Roma Tomato (13 calories)
Spinach (2 calories)
ENJOY!
Ps. I plan on coming up with some pizza recipes that involve meat and other flavors as well, I'll keep ya'll posted!
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