There are many ways you can make your pizza "healthy." It can be healthy as long as you make it yourself. They always say that it’s better to make your pizza instead of ordering it. I tend to agree that it’s better to make your pizza instead of ordering. Baking your own pizza tends to be healthier and saves you a lot of money. You could always buy a frozen pizza from your local grocery store but it still has the fat and calories of one that you would order from Pizza Hut, Domino’s, or Papa John’s. I prefer Papa John’s pizza over Pizza Hut or Domino’s. Still, it still has plenty of calories.
We can gradually work with the regular pizza, vegetarian style pizza, and the vegan style pizza. Yes, there is a vegan style pizza. Interestingly enough, vegetarian and vegan style pizza are very kosher and can suit Jewish dietary laws. But first thing’s first, we have to work on the regular pizza which most people will eat.
First thing we have to focus on is the pizza dough itself. The best way is to buy wheat flour instead of your regular white flour. That’s if you know how to make pizza dough. But don’t focus too much on the flour. My mom tends to add ricotta cheese to the mix as it helps lower the glycolic index. That way, you’ll be filled up for the rest of the night or day and won’t fell hungry for awhile until your next meal. Keep in mind that whole wheat flour is healthier than regular white flour.
That way, you get your necessary fiber. There is fiber in powdered form that you can mix into your pizza dough. Once you got the pizza dough, then you have to work on the pizza sauce.
You can use regular tomato sauce. But if you want, you can make your own pizza sauce. When making your own pizza sauce, you can get pretty creative. Chop up tomatoes and make into a sauce. You can add in diced onions, garlic, peppers, and so forth. From there, you have a sauce that is full of antioxidants and boosts your immune system. If you like to make it spicy, you can add crushed Italian red peppers in a paste form to the mix.
That will give your pizza sauce a good kick. But red peppers do have their health benefits such as relieving gastric disorders. It also helps with blood circulation and combats rheumatoid arthritis. But, due to the spiciness, I like to mix it with the pizza sauce. Not only is it spicy; but, it’s also delicious.
For cheese, you can use the typical low fat skim milk mozzarella cheese. You can get creative and use other viable substitutes. Focus on buying the low fat types of cheeses for your pizza. However, it’s not as delicious as whole milk mozzarella. But, to make a healthier pizza, you’re going to have to sacrifice taste a bit. But if you know what you’re doing, you can more than compensate.
Next thing to work on would be the meat toppings. The meat toppings tend to possess the most calories. Beef is the most common topping in the form of pepperoni and sausage. There might be a low fat pepperoni; but, it’s hard to find. However, you can substitute pepperoni and beef sausage for leaner meats.
Canadian bacon which is ham is a good substitute for pepperoni. This can be considered a lean meat that can be used as a substitute.
You can grill up some chopped chicken and use that as a topping. However, you can buy already pre-cooked chicken. All you need to do is season the chicken and top it. There are various sorts of pizzas in existence that uses chicken as a topping.
If you have ground chicken, you can fry it up using olive oil and season it. From there, you have a substitute for beef sausage. That’s one way of going towards making a substitute for beef sausage. Keep in mind that the chicken has to be well done first.
You can do the same for ground pork. You can make pork sausage that is another delicious substitute for beef sausage. Like the chicken, the ground pork has to be well done as well. Pork is a rather fine substitute for beef.
I have even done the same thing with ground turkey. So far, the pizza I made had turned out to be pretty delicious. Like the chicken and pork, the ground turkey has to be well done when cooked. So, be prepared to take some time preparing the different toppings.
For a vegetarian style pizza, it’s best that you make your own pizza sauce. A vegetarian style pizza is more flexible than a vegan style pizza. It’s obvious that you’re going to use various vegetables as your toppings such as: olives, onions, peppers, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, and so forth. But you do not have to limit yourself to those toppings. There are plenty of imitation meats that use soy. You can vegetarian style sausage and pepperoni.
It looks like a meat lover’s pizza but it’s pure vegetarian. This can be a potential loophole that practitioners of Jewish dietary law can take advantage of. Remember that in Jewish dietary law that the different meats can’t touch one another. The meats and cheese cannot touch either.
Vegan style pizza is just like a vegetarian pizza. The one thing you must change would be the cheese since it’s a dairy product. However, you can find vegan style substitutes that are derived from soy milk instead of actual milk. Once you substitute that, then you’re all set.
From there, you just create your pizza. Set the oven for about four-hundred and twenty-five degrees, place the pizza(s) inside, and let it bake for about eighteen minutes until the pizza is done.
My doing these simple substitutions, you can make your pizza healthier.
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