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Cauliflower Pizza Crust
For years, a recipe for making a healthier pizza crust from cauliflower has made the rounds. Although interested, I couldn’t find the enthusiasm to try making it. Like Tres Leche Cake, it was too labor-intensive to fit my criteria for a Hasty Tasty Meal. Thanks to Green Giant, that’s no longer the case.
Cauliflower pizza crust is pricey ($4.99 at my local grocery store), but is worth the investment if you’re craving pizza and can’t sacrifice nutrition. Yes, nutritional pizza is no longer an oxymoron.
I baked mine in my Power Air Fryer Oven 400°F but it works better in a conventional oven at 450°
Here’s how I made a sausage and mushroom pizza:
RECIPE
Reasonably Healthy Cauliflower Crust Sausage and Mushroom Pizza
Makes 2 2-slice servings.
Ingredients
- 1 frozen cauliflower pizza crust
- 1 8 oz. can low sodium tomato sauce
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 patty fully cooked turkey sausage
- 1 tsp. Italian seasonings
- 1 can mushrooms, rinsed and drained
- 1/4 cup onion, chopped
- 1/4 cup bell pepper, chopped
- 1 cup grated mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses (2/3 cup mozzarella and 1/3 cup Parmesan)
- cooking spray
- optional salt to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450°.
- Remove cauliflower crust from its packaging. Prebake crust directly on the rack for 12-15 minutes.
- While crust bakes, combine sauce, seasonings (including garlic), and turkey sausage patty in a blender or food processor. Don’t overprocess. Stir in mushrooms. Also, grate cheeses if needed.
- Carefully remove crust from the oven using a pizza peel or large spatula.
- Spread the sauce over the crust and sprinkle the chopped onion and pepper.
- Cover with shredded cheese and return pizza to the oven, again placing it directly on the oven rack.
- Bake just until browned and bubbly (approximately 6 minutes). Carefully remove the pizza and allow it to cool for 3-5 minutes.
- Slice into 4 pieces and serve.
Each slice is only 140 calories (280 calories per 2-slice servings), or 8 WW points per serving.*
*Unofficial points calculated using the WW app recipe builder.
Filed under cooking, Healthful Eating, pizza crust, Vegetables
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I’m in the mood for grits this morning, so I’m revisiting this post from last year.
August 5, 2018 · 7:08 am
Healthier Taco Bowls
I had fun using several of my kitchen gadgets to make my healthier version of taco bowls. First, I “fried” the taco shells in my new Power Air Fryer oven. I cooked my chicken breast in my Instant Pot Duo Mini 3-quart, shredded it using my Cuisinart, and heated my cheese sauce in my microwave oven. The payoff was a delicious and filling meal that counts only 3 Weight Watchers SmartPoints.
RECIPE
HASTY TASTY TACO BOWLS
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- OLE tortillas
- ½ pound chicken breasts (Fresh or frozen)
- 1 can Ro*Tel (you pick heat level)
- 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can corn kernels, rinsed and drained
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 jar Tostitos Queso con Salsa (or similar brand)
- Fresh cilantro (optional)
Directions:
- Form each tortilla into a bowl using a mold or oven-proof bowl.
- Air-fry at 370°F for 12 minutes.
- Place chicken breasts and contents of a can of Ro*Tel into the pot of a pressure cooker. Cook under pressure 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow pressure to drop on its own.
- While chicken cooks, prep beans, corn, onions, and cilantro and combine.
- Carefully open pressure cooker and remove the chicken (replace lid to trap in the heat). Shred chicken and return to cooker.
- Stir in beans, corn, onions, and cilantro mixture with the shredded chicken. Cover and allow residual heat to warm the beans and corn.
- Pour Queso con Salsa into a heatproof measuring pitcher and heat 2-3 minutes in the microwave oven, stirring occasionally.
- Place taco bowl shell on a plate, fill with 1/4 of the mixture, and then drizzle with 2 Tbsp. of the queso con salsa. Serve immediately.
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