Vegetarian Pizza

Here is a simple and healthy vegetarian pizza I prepared for dinner tonight. Enjoy!

I bought a ready-made thin crust pizza crust. Brush with olive oil. Then spoon pizza sauce over the entire crust. Sprinkle with baby spinach.

Add mushrooms, black olives, red onion, green pepper and 1 clove of garlic.

Add corn and black beans (rinsed).

Add feta cheese and part-skim mozzarella cheese. 

Bake at 425 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until cheese is just brown on top.

Enjoy!

Recipe

Vegetarian Pizza

1 ready-made pizza crust

olive oil

1 jar of pizza sauce

1/2 t. Kosher salt

1/2 C. of spinach

1/2 C. mushrooms, sliced

1/4 C. black olives, sliced

1/4 C. red onion, diced

1/4 C. green pepper, diced

1 clove of garlic, diced

1/2 C. corn

1/2 C. black beans, rinsed

3/4 C. feta cheese, crumbled

2 C. part-skim mozzarella cheese, shredded

Heat oven to 450 degrees. 

Brush pizza crust with olive oil. Spread pizza sauce over crust. Sprinkle salt over top of crust. Top with spinach, mushrooms, black olives, red onion, green pepper, garlic, corn, black beans, feta cheese and mozzarella cheese.

Turn oven down to 425 degrees. Back pizza for 10-20 minutes until cheese starts to brown. Enjoy!

You can add other vegetables and cheeses. I served it with organic carrots and roasted red pepper hummus. 

Vegetarian Super Bowl

This was my first Super Bowl as a vegetarian and when I helped my husband, Mike with the menu this year I knew I had to come up with something different other than our usual brats, sausages in BBQ sauce and chicken wings. We had all those things, I just didn't indulge in them. 

I searched the internet for a avocado grilled cheese sandwich and found a very good recipe at:

http://greatist.com/health/recipe-tomato-avocado-grilled-cheese-042712/#

It was delicious and I highly recommend it. 

We also served vegetables with a low fat ranch dressing, pepper jack and sharp cheddar cheeses with crackers and a cheese dip that is a family favorite. The cheese dip is very easy to make. You take a large box of Velveeta and a jar of salsa and put that in the crockpot until it melts. We used our salsa out of the garden and it was very tasty.

Do you have a must have Super Bowl dish? If so please share it in the comment section.

Until next time...

Jema