Pizza Recipes That Are Healthy

Homemade pizza is probably the best thing you can dream about making at home. It is not hard to make at all and the beauty of homemade pizza is that you can customize it and choose the toppings you absolutely love and even make it a healthy pizza too. How? Simply by substituting certain ingredients for healthier options. See my recipe below for all these details.

Italian pizza has definitely conquered the world. It really has! Its crisp, 'bready' crust and the classic tomato and mozzarella cheese topping make it truly the best.

The first pizza originated in Southern Italy in Naples in the 18th century. Pizza was baked in wood ovens and then hawked by youngsters in the narrow streets of Naples.

Easy And Healthy Pizza Recipes You Must Try At Home

One of the most famous pizza maker Raffaelle Esposito was the most known pizza-maker in the late 1890s and he was invited to prepare his speciality pizzas for the king and the queen of Italy who were just visiting Naples. He made the Mastunicola (topped with lard, cheese and basil), Marinara (tomato, garlic, oregano and oil) and a pizza that was made for the occasion and called after the queen Margherita who loved this pizza.

The enthusiastic pizza-maker named the pizza after the queen, pizza Margherita (tomato, oil, mozzarella cheese and basil) ingredients to recall the Italian flag colours (red white and green). Pizza was soon taken all over the world by the droves of immigrants who left Italy in the 19th -20th century.

Making your own pizza in the comfort of your own home is nice and not difficult at all. Give it a try and you will be surprised how uncomplicated this actually is.

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Making a habit of making your own pizza dough from scratch in itself is a much healthier option as ready-made ones in stores contain nasties almost 100% of the time. These contain all sort of agents and hydrogenated oils not to mention other ingredients that sometimes cannot even be pronounced.

My food intake policy is that if any label contains stuff you cannot pronounce then you cannot digest it either! Leave it there on the shelf and consider making your own.

It is exactly what I did with my Yorkshire puddings some time ago. Love them, used to buy them even more often than I should have. I did not consider making my own because yes, it was convenient buying them ready-made and I always thought they were so difficult to make at home. This was until one day when I dared to give these a try. Guess what?! it was a true first-time success. Never bought them ever again, I probably never will!

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It can be the same with your own homemade pizza experience. Especially for those that eat pizza often, it would be a real shame not to try making your own made from scratch pizza dough.

Making your own homemade pizza made from those ingredients, you will never go wrong, it is a truly Mediterranean way of eating, the only way we maintain a good healthy gut and lifestyle.

Ask yourself a question: How many times a week, or a month do I have or I'd love to have a pizza? Well, the answer is you could probably have it even more often with clean ingredients like these without feeling any guilt at all.

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The best part and aspect of home cooking, in general, is that we will always know what we are ingesting to the very last ingredient! Time to make that change I think, just give this homemade pizza recipe a try.

To get a thin crust, we need to spread and stretch more the pizza dough, stretch as much as you wish. To me, the thinner, the better but it also depends on the pizza toppings. The more you add to your pizza as toppings, the thicker the crust you'd want to add.

Any homemade pizza it's amazing, whether that's thin crust, medium crust or thick crust. Just take the little challenge and make your own pizza. You will not look back.

Healthy Meat Lover's Pizza

Jarred roasted red peppers are perfect on pizza and offer extra flavor. Or, you could use narrow two-inch long strips of fresh bell pepper, if you prefer.

No, this is not necessary unless you fancy a really thick crust. For any Medium or thin crust add toppings directly on pizza dough after shaping the pizza base and transfer to a pizza.

Mozzarella - perhaps the most well-known and the most popular or used pizza topping of all time. Mozzarella is adored by us all for its near-perfect consistency and straightforward flavour. Use a buffalo mozzarella if possible, simply divine.

Chicken And Veggie Pizza

Gorgonzola - Creamy, yet crumbly, full-bodied and truly aromatic, this blue marbled cheese with sharp flavours, an original Northern Italian, is such a great addition to any pizza recipe. With mild hazelnuts tones, sharp flavours, this beautiful cheese, becomes more intense on your tongue without growing too strong.

Provolone - Provolone is a semi-hard Italian cheese ( similar to Mozzarella) often used in combo with Parmigiano-Reggiano and Mozzarella (a fab trio). The mild flavours go very well with all types of pizzas.

Aged Havarti - also a popular choice when it comes to pizza toppings, beautifully rich flavour, smooth in texture making an amazing choice on any vegetarian homemade pizza.

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Goats cheese - Not the regular melting cheese like the other types of cheese. Goats cheese gives that uniqueness, a completely different touch on a classic pizza flavour. It pairs wonderfully with almost any veggies (fennel, courgette, red onion, peppers) and nice aromatic herbs.

Why not mix any of the above and make a Quattro Formaggi pizza? Yes, it is naughty and indulgent but who really cares?

Here are some more homemade pizza recipes - quick and easy - that you will enjoy making depending on the time and ingredient availability:

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If you do not have time to make a good homemade pizza sauce from scratch you could definitely use any organic jarred pasta sauce that you can buy from the supermarket. Some really good ones here in the UK are totally free from any flavour enhancers, unnecessary additives and nasties. I do recommend and totally encourage you to make your own pizza sauce as it can be ready in no time, really effortless and totally worth it.

One thing we or kids always crave for it's undoubtedly the good old pizza. Why not make everything from scratch so we turn it into a nice and healthy and almost a guilt free meal!

This recipe provides measurements for 2 medium crust pizza bases, if you would like a pizza with a heavy topping, it will be better to use a thicker crust. 

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Just get equal amounts of cheddar, provolone and mozzarella and throw them in your food processor. There you'll have a freshly grated pizza cheese, just the way it should be.

Calories: 1056 kcal | Carbohydrates: 128 g | Protein: 48 g | Fat: 37 g | Saturated Fat: 11 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15 g | Cholesterol: 74 mg | Sodium: 1976 mg | Potassium: 958 mg | Fiber: 25 g | Sugar: 9 g | Vitamin A: 1759 IU | Vitamin C: 27 mg | Calcium: 306 mg | Iron: 9 mg

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