Healthy Greek Pizza Recipe

Greek Pizza is topped with feta, spinach, and olives for a colorful meal with Mediterranean inspiration. This is a white pizza that is simply brushed with olive oil (no red sauce) – a fun way to mix up pizza night!

Friday is pizza night at our house and this Greek-inspired pie is one of our latest favorites. It’s not an entirely traditional pizza – no red sauce here. Just top the dough with olive oil, feta, spinach, roasted bell peppers, and olives.

My best tip for making homemade pizza is to roll it out and then bake it on parchment paper . Even very sticky pizza dough is easy to roll out onto parchment and the parchment prevents it from sticking to the sheet pan or pizza stone. Even though many types of parchment paper have a recommended cooking temperature that is lower than the temperature at which pizzas cook, I’ve never had any issue (and Cooks Illustrated also says it’s just fine).

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Greek Pizza is topped with feta, spinach, and olives for a colorful pie with Mediterranean inspiration. This is a white pizza that is simply brushed with olive oil (no red sauce) - a fun way to mix up pizza night

Feta cheese doesn’t melt the same way that mozzarella does. If you prefer that melty mozzarella texture / flavor on your pizza, use mozzarella or use it in addition to the feta.

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Jess is the recipe creator and photographer at . She spent nearly a decade as the Chief Recipe Developer for the award-winning meal planning app Cook Smarts. Her colorful, healthyish recipes have been featured in popular online publications including Parade, Hallmark, and HuffPost.Don’t get me wrong, I love knowing a freshly delivered pizza is just a phone call away, but I have to say this Greek Pizza is so much better than take-out and just as fast! It’s loaded up with artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, basil, feta and black olives and it’s ready in only 20 minutes.

This homemade pizza recipe is super fast and to make because instead of using pizza dough, we topped a store-bought pizza crust with all of the Greek toppings. It is so convenient, and if you haven’t tried some of the newer pizza crusts on the market, you will find that they have great texture and are as delicious as pizza made from fresh pizza dough.

The toppings for this recipe are mostly all pantry staples so you can keep them on hand for whenever you need to make a fast family-friendly dinner!

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For this pizza I used a par-baked purchased pizza crust. There are many popular brands, and I tested this Greek Pizza recipe with several well known brands. You’ll need a 10 ounce thin-style pizza crust. They’re about 11 to 12 inches in diameter. You can also use purchased dough or make your own whole-wheat pizza dough instead.

Because this is one of those K.I.S.S. recipes, I like to use store-bought tomato sauce. I mean I’m not going to stop you from making homemade Napoli sauce, but I’m telling you I just went ahead and bought a jar of sauce.

I recommend Tomato Basil sauce for the classic neutral flavor. I have been buying Newman’s lately, but there are so many decent jarred sauces on the market. You only need 1/2 cup of the sauce, so you can use the rest to make Stuffed Shells with Spinach.

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This is an ingredient that I discovered a few years ago. As you may know, I call for Italian Seasoning in a lot of recipes. I use it in Chicken Cacciatore, Minestrone Soup and Crispy Skin Chicken to name a few. I love it mostly because it is like using several spices all at once.

Well, Greek Seasoning is the same deal, only it has a slightly different flavor profile. I love the mint in it! Once you have it, try it in garlic marinade! It’s amazing how much flavor it adds.

If you don’t have it on hand, you can sub in Italian Seasoning, or 1/2 teaspoon oregano and 1/4 teaspoon dried mint (if you have it.)

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Once you try this recipe, you’ll make a mental not to always keep your pantry stocked with these Greek Pizza ingredients. Mark my words! Just cruise down the international isle (or sometimes the pasta isle) and grab yourself a jar of roasted red peppers, canned artichoke hearts in water and a jar of olives.

I like to use artichoke hearts that are chopped up, but if you’re in a rush, just leave them in quarters. Note that if you cannot find canned artichoke hearts the kind that comes in oil in a jar is also very good, but it will add extra calories from fat.

Some grocery stores also carry frozen artichoke hearts. I don’t find them as useful for this kind of recipe since you won’t need a whole package, and it is hard to break off what you need from the block.

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I’ll leave it up to you to decide which black olives to use. For me, I like to buy the pre-pitted kalamata olives because they’re so convenient. If you prefer a more mild black Greek olive, you’ll probably have to pit them yourself. To do so easily, just crush the olive with the side of your chef’s knife then pull out the pit. Chop the olives once or twice.

Though I do love them for their buttery mild flavor, I think California ripe black olives would be a missed opportunity for flavor here so I do not recommend them.

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I used part-skim mozzarella for this Greek Pizza because it helps to save a step of grating the cheese. Part skim cheese is lower in fat, so you’ll save on additional fat calories, but know that it will not melt as perfectly as full fat mozzarella would.

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I know you’re going to think I’ve lost my mind here, but I call for reduced-fat feta cheese in this Greek Pizza. Normally I am all about using a smaller amount of a full-fat ingredient over a reduced-fat version, because oftentimes they pale in comparison and have a bunch of fillers added in.

Reduced-fat feta doesn’t have fillers, it’s just made with skim milk. And in a recipe like this, you won’t be able to tell the difference. Plus it is half the calories of full-fat feta! That makes a difference for a pizza that can be very high in fat overall. I like the reduced-fat feta on my salads for lunch too, so it’s nice to have it on hand.

The only two produce items are red onion, which I pretty much always have on hand. Just make sure to cut it very thin for this pizza. And the other item is basil. It adds a really nice flavor. I add it on top a the very end to add a fresh burst of basil flavor.

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One of the keys to any good pizza recipe is that you’ll need a nice hot oven. I set mine to 450 degrees. (PHOTO 1) I also like to bake the pizza right in the middle of the oven. When I am making a pizza with fresh dough like my Potato Pizza, I would say to position the rack in the bottom of the oven. Here though, you want the toppings to heat and the cheese to melt as the crust is crisping up. So the middle rack works better.

When you open your package of crust(s) make sure to take a peek at the instructions for baking. If you bought a super-thin crust, it may take less time than my stated 8 to 10 minutes or more for a traditional thicker crust.If you use pizza dough instead, follow these assembly and baking instructions instead.

Then I set the pizza directly on the oven rack! (PHOTO 3) That allows the hot air to crisp up the bottom of the crust. It makes a big difference! If you have a pizza peel this is super easy to do, so use that for sure. If not you can use a rimless cookie sheet to transfer the pizza into the oven. Just slide it right off. You could also use an inverted rimmed baking sheet if that’s all you have. I like to have a set of tongs too, in case the pizza sticks to the peel a bit.