It’s loaded with veggies and sprinkled with parmesan cheese, with a rich red sauce and a thin crust. Yes, this is the BEST healthy pizza you will find anywhere.
People often ask us what’s yours favourite something to cook? And if you know us, you won’t be surprised by the response. PIZZA. After our honeymoon in Italy, Alex and I have spent the last ten years perfecting the best kind of homemade artisan pizza. In fact, we’ve gotten a little cheesy. We figured out how to make the best crust, the best sauce, and a margherita pizza to die for. We can make taco pizza and classic cheese pizza. But what if you want something… something lighter? We got a challenge: Can you make a healthy pizza recipe? Oh we ever can Find out how to do it.
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What makes a healthy pizza?
So you want to make healthy pizza? First, let’s talk about what makes pizza unhealthy. A slice of Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza contains 300 calories. This pizza is loaded with gooey cheese and meat and has a high-carb crust. So: Want a fresh and healthy homemade alternative? Here are the properties of this pizza that make it healthy:
- Fine homemade dough: This pizza uses our Easy Thin Crust Pizza Dough. It’s made with simple ingredients (flour, olive oil, water) and because it’s thin, it has far fewer calories than a soft crust.
- Super tasty pizza sauce: The red sauce offers great flavor without the high calories. This is our Easy Pizza Sauce, a fan favorite recipe that only takes 5 minutes and tastes like Italy. (Really.)
- Limited cheese. This healthy pizza contains just ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese. It’s just enough to add savory flavor, but there’s so much flavor in the veggies and sauce that you don’t need to load cheese. (For vegan pizza, go to Our Best Vegan Pizza.)
- Lots of vegetables. Health isn’t just about calories, it’s also about vitamins and nutrients. This pizza is topped with vitamin C-rich bell peppers and nutrient-dense green arugula.
how many calories One slice of this healthy pizza recipe contains 96 calories. Only 96 calories! That’s about ⅓ the calories of a pizza delivery. Best of all, it packs the added vitamins and nutrients of fresh, colorful veggies. win dinner!
Tips for the best healthy pizza
How do you make this best healthy pizza recipe? We have some tips for the best pizza ever, fresh and healthy.
- Use a pizza stone. This is our #1 tip for homemade pizza recipes: use a pizza stone! This makes the crust crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Pizza stones are inexpensive and will last for years; Here’s the pizza stone we recommend, along with maintenance tips.
- Pizza shovels are handy. To put the pizza on this hot stone, a pizza peel comes in handy! It’s a paddle that throws the dough onto that hot surface. Our favorites are this aluminum pizza peel or super pizza peel.
- Garnish with lettuce and fruit. To make this healthy pizza part of a healthy meal: complement it with salad and fruit! Our favorite cut lettuce, our perfect Italian salad, our best kale salad, or our wedge lettuce would all go well here. Or just go to Vegetable and Healthy Ranch. A good “dessert” would be green apple slices and our chocolate hummus.
Video: How to make pizza dough
The most technical part of making a pizza is making a homemade dough. Because learning to make something like dough is actually required shows To you, we made a video to show the dough making process. Here are some dough tips to remember as you make it, then watch the video above to see it in action:
- Make the dough 1 hour before serving OR make it ahead of time. It only takes 15 minutes to prepare the dough. Then it rests for 45 minutes before it’s ready to stretch. If you don’t have 1 hour before serving, you can make it up to 3 days ahead and refrigerate.
- Thin crust pizza dough is easy to shape: just roll! This pizza dough is easier to shape than our main pizza dough recipe because you roll it out with a rolling pin! This crust is easy to make: see the video above.
- Use Tipo 00 flour if you can find it. Our favorite flour for pizza dough is that of the Italians: It’s called Tipo 00 and makes the crust light and fluffy. You can find groceries there or online here.
This recipe is…
Vegetarian. For vegans visit our best vegan pizza.
The description
It’s loaded with veggies and sprinkled with parmesan cheese, with a rich red sauce and a thin crust. Yes, this is the BEST healthy pizza you will find anywhere.
- 1 simple thin crust dough ball
- ½ cup Easy pizza sauce
- 1/2 yellow peppers
- 1/2 Red pepper
- 1/4 medium red onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano, plus more for garnish
- ½ tbsp capers, drained
- ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
- ½ cup rocket
- Kosher salt
- olive oil
- Semolina flour or corn flour for dusting the pizza skin
- Prepare pizza dough: Follow the Thin Crust Pizza Dough recipe to prepare the dough. (It takes about 15 minutes and 45 minutes to rest.)
- Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (this is the pizza oven we use).
- Prepare pizza sauce: Prepare the easy pizza sauce.
- Preparation of the toppings: Cut the peppers into small pieces. Finely chop the red onion. Finely chop the garlic. In a skillet, add 1 tablespoon olive oil and ¼ teaspoon kosher salt. Sauté the vegetables, stirring frequently, until golden and very tender, about 7-10 minutes. Stir in oregano and remove from heat.
- Bake pizza: When the oven is done, dust a pizza peel with corn or semolina flour. (If you don’t have a pizza peel, you can use a rimmed baking sheet or the back of a rimmed baking sheet. But a pizza peel is worth the investment!) Roll out the dough in a circle; For instructions, see How to stretch pizza dough. Then carefully place the dough on the pizza peel.
- Spread the pizza sauce thinly over the dough with the back of a spoon. Sprinkle with vegetables, drained capers and parmesan.
- Use the pizza peel to carefully transfer the pizza onto the preheated pizza stone. Bake the pizza until the cheese and crust are golden brown, about 5 to 7 minutes in the oven (or 1 minute in a pizza oven).
- While the pizza is baking, toss the baby arugula with a drizzle of olive oil and a pinch of kosher salt. When the pizza is done, top with arugula. Cut into pieces and serve immediately.
- Category: Pizza
- Method: Cooked
- Kitchen: Italian
Keywords: Healthy Pizza, Healthy Pizza Recipe, Vegetarian Pizza Recipe, Vegetarian Pizza
