A Healthy version of Pizza Marguerita

Pizza Marguerita :

Pizza is the world’s favorite food. The combination of delicious crust, tomato sauce and cheese pleases everyone. However, it’s labeled unhealthy, as it can be high in calories, sodium and carbs. It all depends on the ingredients and the preparation methods.

Freshly homemade pizza contain healthier ingredients, because you can choose them.

In this recipe I choose for the crust whole spelt flour, because its low gluten content and it is not refined, which means more fiber. The tomato sauce is made with organic tomatoes and the cheese I choose is of high quality organic goat cheese and topped with rucola. I don’t use any type of oil.

There are many ways to boost the nutrition content of your pizza. Choosing whole-grain crust, making your own tomato sauce, add some veggies and high quality cheese!

Servings 2

Prep. Time = 20 minutes

Cook time = 15 minutes

Ingredients:

for the crust:

200 g whole spelt flour

1 tablet of fresh yeast (30g)

1/2 tbsp of Himalayan salt

1/2 glass of water.

How to make it:

1- In a bawl put the flour. Add salt.

2- Dissolve the yeast in a little warm water, and pour over the flour.

3- Go kneading it well until it forms a homogeneous ball.

4- Cover with a cloth and let it levitate for about 20 minutes.

5- With a rolling pin, roll out the dough in a round shape and make it very thin.

6- Pre-heat the oven at 180c.

7- Spread the tomato sauce across the dough and bake it for 10 minutes.

For the tomato sauce:

6 tomatoes 

8 cherry tomatoes

1 onion

1 garlic clove

parsley, oregano, pepper and salt.

How to make it :

1- In a pan with 500ml of water put the tomatoes to boil for 20 minutes.

2- In a blender, blend the tomatoes and pass in the sieve to eliminate the peel and seeds.

3- Drop the sauce in the pan, add garlic, onion, salt, curcuma and herbs, and let it cook until it thickens. Add pepper to taste.

After baking add:

1- Remove the dough from the oven.

2- Add the cherry tomatoes cut in half, to give more flavor.

5- Grate the cheese of your choice, over the sauce and bake for 5 minutes until the cheese melts.

6- Remove from the oven and cover the pizza with fresh rucola.

Now your delicious and healthy pizza is ready to eat!

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