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Who said that when losing weight, you need to give up your favorite foods.
For some, the favorite dish is sweets, for some, fries or pizza. Any dish can be reduced in calories and a healthy alternative can be found.
Pizza came to Russia from sunny Italy, where it is prepared everywhere and from a wide variety of ingredients. If pizza is made from fresh natural products, then there is not so much harmful in it. People who adhere to the correct diet are confused only by the large amount of premium flour in the pizza base and the large amount of sauce. In addition, adding smoked meats and sausages to pizza, it should be understood that the calorie content increases significantly, and the benefits decrease.
In this article, we want to tell you how to make pizza so that it is healthy and low in calories. Most of the recipes from this collection can be cooked and eaten at night and there will be no harm to the figure and health, but of course, measure is important in everything.
Recipe 1. Chicken-based protein pizza
Pizza, in which there is not a single gram of flour, is the ultimate dream of everyone who is losing weight. It turns out that this is possible. This recipe uses chicken breast as the base for the pizza! The secret of this recipe is that for cooking, you definitely need homemade minced meat (calorizer). In the purchased minced meat, poorly ground bones and cartilages, skin and excess fat are often found. If you cook homemade minced meat from fillets, then there will be more benefits and the pizza will not fall apart and will definitely work out!
For cooking, we need the following ingredients:
For the basis:
- Chicken fillet – 600 gr.
- Luk – 1 No.
- Egg – 1 pcs.
- Salt – 1/2 tsp
- Ground black pepper – 1/2 tsp
For the filling:
- Champignons – 3 pcs.
- Bulgarian pepper – 1/2 pc.
- Tomato – 1 pcs.
- Cheese – 60 gr.
- Olives – 40 gr.
- Sour cream 10% – 1 tbsp
- Tomato Paste – 1 tbsp
- Spices – 1 tsp
- Greens – 5 gr.
How to cook? Everything is very simple. First, the chicken breast must be washed, bones, skin and fat, if any, removed. Then cut into large pieces. Peel and cut the onion into quarters, and mince the meat and onions. Then add the egg to the minced meat, salt, pepper and mix well. Form a round pizza base. This is best done on a silicone mat or parchment paper. So sure nothing will stick. Bake the base in the oven at 200 degrees, about 15 minutes.
While the base is baking, you need to prepare the rest of the ingredients: grate the cheese, chop the vegetables and mushrooms. The slicing should be thin so that the vegetables do not ooze out too much in the oven. For the sauce, mix tomato paste with low-fat sour cream and spices. Curry, Provencal herbs, or even a mixture of peppers will work equally well in this recipe. Choose what you love.
After the pizza base is baked and cooled down a bit, all that remains is to assemble the pizza. Grease the base with sauce, lay out the mushrooms and vegetables. Sprinkle a little cheese on top and put it in the oven for another 15 minutes.
The pizza turns out to be juicy, aromatic and very tasty. And most importantly, it contains solid protein and fiber, such a pizza can be eaten even for dinner. In addition, it will fit perfectly into the keto diet and the diet of the Ducan diet.
Recipe 2. Vegan Tofu Pizza
Tofu is a unique product. Firstly, it is the lowest-calorie cheese, and secondly, it is a product that does not have a pronounced taste and always absorbs all the aromas of the products with which it is cooked. And for people who have given up on animal products, this is one of the main sources of protein. Vegans do not eat dairy products, meat, fish and eggs, so we will not use sour cream and the usual cheese (calorizer) in this pizza. But there are substitutes for these ingredients on the vegan menu. For example, you can buy vegan cheese at any specialty store, and choose soy sour cream.
Here are the ingredients we need to make a low-calorie tofu pizza:
- Tofu – 250 gr.
- Buckwheat flour – 50 gr.
- Water – 50 ml.
- Tomato – 1 pcs.
- Champignons – 2 pcs.
- Bulgarian pepper – 1/2 pc.
- Zucchini – 70 gr.
- Olives – 40 gr.
- Luk – 1 No.
- Dill – 5 gr.
- Tomato Paste – 1 tbsp
- Lean cheese – 50 gr.
- Provencal herbs – 1 tsp
- Salt (to taste) – 1/2 tsp
Preparation:
First of all, to prepare the base cake, you need to grate the tofu on a coarse grater, then mix it with flour and a little water. Mix everything well with your hand. Put the mixture on a silicone mat and shape it round. Bake in the oven for 5 minutes at 180 degrees. Cut the courgette and the rest of the vegetables into thin slices. For the sauce, combine tomato paste and spices. Do not exclude zucchini from this recipe, it will add juiciness to the pizza. Grate the vegan cheese on a coarse grater. As a rule, vegan cheese is prepared on the basis of coconut oil and this is not the lowest-calorie alternative to regular cheese, but there is not much of it in the recipe and it will not spoil the figure.
Grease the finished pizza base with sauce, lay out the zucchini, and then sprinkle all the other ingredients with cheese. Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes.
Try making this pizza even if you are not a vegan. It turns out to be tasty, aromatic with a thin crunchy base and juicy filling.
Recipe 3. Vegetarian chickpea pizza
Vegetarianism is an extremely popular phenomenon these days, of course, almost any pizza can be made vegetarian, just do not add meat, fish and eggs to it. But not every one can be made useful! It is known that it is as easy to gain weight on vegetarianism as on meat-eating. A large amount of carbohydrates and fats in the diet does the trick. But there is a healthy alternative for vegetarians too! Prepare a pizza based on boiled chickpeas. It contains a lot of vegetable protein, useful vitamins, macro- and microelements.
Ingredients:
- Boiled chickpeas – 300 gr.
- Buckwheat flour – 50 gr.
- Flax seeds – 1 tablespoon
- Water – 50 ml.
- Tomato – 1 pcs.
- Bulgarian pepper 1/2 pc.
- Champignon – 2 pcs.
- Cheese – 50 gr.
- Greens 10 gr.
- Tomato Paste – 1 tbsp
- Sour cream – 1 tbsp.
- Spices (to taste) – 1 tsp
- Salt (to taste) – 1/2 tsp
Many vegetarians don’t eat eggs, so to keep our pizza base from falling apart, add soaked flax seeds to the dough. It is better to soak them beforehand so that they swell and become sticky. Boiled chickpeas with the addition of soaked seeds must be mashed using a hand blender. Then, gradually adding flour, knead the dough. You don’t need a lot of flour, the dough should look like plasticine or wet sand. Put the chickpea dough on a non-stick mat and form a round base, then you need to bake it at 180 degrees for 5-7 minutes. While the base is baking, finely chop the ingredients and grate the cheese. As in other recipes, mix sour cream with tomato paste and your favorite spices as a sauce.
Put the sauce on the finished base and distribute it over the entire surface. Then we spread the filling in random order and sprinkle everything with cheese. We bake in the oven for another 10 minutes at 180 degrees.
This pizza turns out to be very tasty and satisfying due to the chickpeas. You can also use just about any vegetable for the filling.
Recipe 4. PP pizza on oat and squash dough
The recipe for this pizza will come in handy when the squash season begins. It is very good for cooking to choose young zucchini without seeds, they cook quickly and the base for the pizza turns out to be very tender. There is no premium flour in this recipe, a lot of fiber and sheer benefits.
Ingredients:
- Zucchini – 400 gr.
- Egg – 1 pcs.
- Whole grain oat flour – 120 gr.
- Salt (to taste) – 1/2 tsp
- Champignons – 3 pcs.
- Olives – 40 gr.
- Cheese – 40 gr.
- Tomatoes – 1 pieces.
- Bulgarian pepper – 1 pc.
- Kinza – 2 gr.
- Green onions – 2 gr.
- Sour cream 10% – 1 tbsp
- Tomato Paste – 1 tbsp
- Provencal herbs – 1 tsp
As with any pizza, you need to start with the basics. To do this, grate the zucchini on a coarse grater, add salt, and then drain the released juice. Add egg and oatmeal. Be sure to squeeze the courgette, otherwise the dough will be runny. If there is no oatmeal at home, you can replace it with buckwheat or simply grind the oatmeal in a coffee grinder or food processor.
Put the squash mass on a silicone mat, flatten and give a round shape. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes. While the base is baking, prepare the rest of the ingredients: grate the cheese, chop the mushrooms, tomatoes and bell peppers into thin slices, the olives into slices and finely chop the greens. Cilantro can be left for garnish or replaced with basil. For the sauce, mix sour cream with tomato spice paste. It is worth noting that the filling can be anything. Add what you love to your pizza!
After the base is baked and cooled down a little, you need to grease it with sauce, spread out the filling and sprinkle with cheese. Then put it back in the oven for 15 minutes.
Recipe 5. Fast pizza on pita bread
Has it ever happened to you that guests are on the doorstep and you urgently need to prepare something quickly. You don’t want to wait for delivery, and there is hardly anything low-calorie in the nearest pizzeria. If this has happened, then this recipe is definitely for you! Fast pizza on pita bread is a real lifesaver for those who do not want to spend a lot of time cooking. Or who wants to prepare themselves a quick and tasty snack.
And here are the ingredients we need:
- Armenian lavash – 40 gr.
- Tomatoes – 1 pieces.
- Champignons – 2 pcs.
- Russian cheese – 60 gr.
- Tomato Paste – 1 tbsp
- Sour cream – 1 tbsp.
- Spices – 1 tsp
- Green onions – 5 gr.
- Olives – 40 gr.
Cooking takes no more than 10 minutes. And first of all, you need to cut the pita bread in the shape of the pan. You don’t need to do this, but then the pizza will not be neat, and the edges of the pita bread will dry out. We cut the pita bread so that we get two circles with the diameter of the pan. We grate the cheese and divide it into two equal parts: one part will go between the base pita bread, the second – to the top. Prepare the rest of the ingredients immediately. To prevent pita bread from getting soaked from vegetable juice, there should not be a lot of filling, and it should be thinly sliced. For the sauce, mix sour cream and tomato paste with spices.
Now the most interesting thing: put a circle of pita bread in a dry frying pan, sprinkle with cheese and cover with a second pita bread. We put under the lid on low heat for a minute, so that the cheese melts and it looks like a thin dough. In order not to overdry the pita bread, remove the pan from the heat, you can turn the base over, or you can leave it as it is. Lubricate the pizza base with sauce, lay out the ingredients and sprinkle with the second part of the grated cheese. And again, under the lid, put on medium heat for a couple of minutes to melt the cheese. That’s all, the dish is ready, you can invite guests to the table!
The pizza prepared according to each of these recipes will not harm the figure. They all contain a large amount of protein, useful elements and vitamins. And each recipe can be transformed to suit your taste, for example, add seafood, mozzarella balls, bacon or smoked meats to pizza. Pamper yourself and your family with delicious and aromatic pizza, which is certainly healthy and low-calorie!