Pizza does not need to imply junk food as this salad greens pizza recipe will show you.

Italian healthy pizza recipe

For those who love the smell of an oven fresh crust and wholesome cheese bubbling over, they often refrain from indulging in pizza as they find it loaded with calories and little nutritional value. That might be true of the commercial pizza chains where the ingredients being processed and frozen, they add little value to the system besides carbs and calories. However, here is one recipe that will make you consider pizza in a different light. Indeed, there are Several Other Recipes like Making Vegetarian Pizza At Home.

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An escarole lined pizza

This is a Novel Pizza Recipe that includes escarole as one of the chief ingredients and represents a rustic pizza recipe from Italy. If you are wondering about escarole and its properties, it is a leafy green vegetable that has a bitter under taste. It is a salad plant that offers vitamins like A and C along with other nutritional benefits. Part of the endive family, it is a crop that is grown in the cool seasons and is prevalent in the Asia Minor areas. The Belgian endive is popular among many European countries. Endive vegetables tend to be low in calories, but have high fiber content. Hence, it is beneficial for those who suffer from obesity and diabetes. The vitamin rich vegetable offers beneficial antioxidants like beta carotene. This can help flush out harmful toxins from the system. It is also steeped in vitamin B complex nutrients like folic acid as well as minerals like iron, copper, manganese and others.

Ingredients required

  • Olive oil of the extra virgin variety, 1 tbsp.
  • Salt cured anchovies, 2 tbsp.
  • Black olives, chopped, 3 tbsp.
  • 1 tbsp. of small capers
  • ½ a tsp of red pepper flakes
  • A bunch of fresh escarole, washed and sliced
  • 1/3rd cup of Parmesan cheese
  • Basic pizza dough
  • 1/3rd cup of cornmeal

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How to make?

Olive oil needs to be heated in a skillet and anchovies need to be cooked till it becomes a paste. Red pepper flakes, capers and olives need to be added till the flavors emerge. Now one should add the escarole till the leaves wilt and become tender. The pizza dough can be prepared by brushing with olive oil. A border of half an inch should be left in the dough. On the main surface of the dough a thin layer of the cooked mixture should be spread out. This needs to be topped with grated Parmesan cheese. Once the pizza is prepared in this way, it can be put in the oven for baking. The same mixture can be used for making several batches of pizza. It is best to consume the pizza fresh. In case you would be eating later, you could make the topping and keep it aside. Use it to create the pizza fresh at the time of eating. It is a diet friendly vegetarian pizza that is sure to be loved by all.