Healthy Pizza Recipes

Healthy pizza recipes will have a lower fat content as a starting point. It is better to use bread instead of pastry as the base, because it involves less fat. There is no need to use meat in a pizza, of course, which makes a pizza a good food for vegetarians.

Healthy Pizza Recipes

Healthy pizza recipes can involve small amounts of expensive foodstuffs that you would not normally buy. Vegetables and seafood are popular ingredients for healthy pizza recipes.

The last consideration for healthy pizza recipes is the cheese. There is little point in cutting back on fat in the pizza and then covering it with full fat cheese.

If you like pizzas, but are concerned that the shop bought pizzas are not very good for you, you are probably right.

There must be some good pizzas in the shops, but honestly, even the best ones will be full of preservatives.

A pizza is really a hot, open sandwich and therefore you can put anything you like on your pizza just as you would put anything you like in a sandwich.

Oil and fat are the downfall of most pizzas, so if you are going to make a pizza, try to use good quality oil, like olive oil.

If you want to eat healthy pizzas you will have to make them yourself by following healthy pizza recipes. So, what would be typical traits of healthy pizza recipes?

Well, healthy pizza recipes would include as little fat or oil as possible in the pizza base, as much fresh vegetables as possible; non fatty meat or fish, if required and good quality cheese.

So starting with the base. Use your favourite flour: wholemeal, stoneground, rye and make the dough according to any recipe you have, but substitute a teaspoon of olive oil for butter or margarine, if your recipe calls for that.

If you do not want to use a bread base, you could experiment with a half block of tofu, some soya flour and an egg to bind it. Mix well and bake until solid.

Or you could lay your pizza topping directly onto a base of your favourite vegetables like sliced potatoes, sliced aubergine, sliced courgette or something similar.

Arrange the thinly sliced vegetables in a cake tin with a removable side; bake or put under the grill until soft and / or slightly charred, then remove the side of the tin and proceed as with a bread pizza.

Truly healthy pizza recipes would call for a tomato sauce base made by reducing fresh tomatoes to a puree. Add your favourite Italian herbs and spices while cooking or sprinkle them onto the pizza to allow more variation.

Think about oregano, marjoram, thyme and rosemary. Add garlic and or pesto, if required. Crush a clove of garlic and rub around the edge (half an inch) or your pizza base; spread the sauce over the rest.

Add your favourite chopped vegetables and whatever else: onions, mushrooms, olives, ham, pineapple pieces, tuna, crab, prawns. Top it off with a little Mozzarella cheese, but go sparingly or just leave the cheese off altogether.

A pizza is a work of art, like a good sandwich, and you can use whatever your like - go ahead and create your own healthy pizza recipes!