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Veggie Pizza With Natural And Healthy Ingredients
By Julia Taylor-Fernandez
Veggie pizza is available from many pizza restaurants, or you
can make your own veggie pizza using your favorite garden fresh
herbs and vegetables. Using your own ingredients ensures you get
the full flavor of freshly picked produce, with all the natural
flavors and nutrients intact.
When you buy a pizza from a pizza restaurant, you do not know
if the ingredients are freshly picked ingredients, or kept in
the fridge for days or weeks and losing their flavors in the meantime.
Using your own ingredients, ensures you get the most delicious
veggie pizza, with all the nutrients of the freshly picked natural
ingredients.
Moving Away From High Fat Meats
If you are looking to review your options, change your diet and
move away from calorie laden meats like sausage, pepperoni, salami
and other fatty meats on your pizza, then the veggie pizza may
be your ideal solution.
Once you try the first veggie pizza, you will want to order another
one the next time you visit the pizza restaurant, or make your
own veggie pizza using your garden fresh ingredients.
Easy To Make Vegetarian Soups Packed With Nutrients
Pizza is one of America’s favorite foods. However, most people
think pizza is a big caloric splurge that will surely put on a
few unwanted pounds. If your choice of pizza is a big, five pound
wonder loaded with sausage, pepperoni, salami and other fatty
meats, it probably will cause an unpleasant tipping of the scales.
Have you given thought to a totally veggie pizza as an alternative?
Cheese is, of course, part of the pizza experience, but you can
use less cheese than normal. Mozzarella is a part-skim cheese
and not particularly fattening. Leave off the cheddar if you’re
really worried about the fat. An all veggie pizza is a marvelous
taste treat and so good for you, you should really think of it
as health food to chase away any lingering guilt.
A Veggie Pizza Once A Week To Keep The Doctor Away
We’re always being chided by doctors and health nuts for not
getting our adequate amounts of fruits and veggies. Well, here’s
your chance! A veggie pizza, once a week, helps keep that doctor
away!
Choose a thin crust. A thick tomato base made of finely diced
Roma tomatoes, seasoned with basil and spread thinly over the
crust is a good start. The tomatoes are loaded with vitamins A
and C, which are good for your skin. Tomatoes are also high in
lycopene, which is also antioxidant. Antioxidants help prevent
cancer. Now think of all the veggies you can put on a pizza.
Onions, Garlic And Olives On Your Veggie Pizza
Onions and garlic are both antibacterial and promote good immune
system response, helping to prevent colds and such. Olives belong
on any pizza, while providing cholesterol free oil. Mushrooms
are just plain tasty. Red, yellow and orange sweet bell peppers
add a festive look, lots of fiber and have plenty of beta-carotene,
another antioxidant.
Thinly sliced zucchini layered over the top is delicious, adds
fiber and iron to the veggie pizza mix we’ve got going. Have we
forgotten anything? Freshly snipped Italian parsley provides good
looks and even more vitamin A.
Experimenting With Your Choice Ingredients
This recipe is bursting with health, so don’t let anyone tell
you differently! You can add any vegetable to your own veggie
pizza that strikes your fancy. Artichoke hearts and water chestnuts
are good. Some people like to add fruits, such as pineapple. You
just need to experiment until you find your very own irresistible
combination veggie pizza. Many pizza houses will make your veggie
pizza with any ingredients you like.
Don’t forget the cheese. By the way, fresh mozzarella cheese
is now available in many supermarkets. The taste is fabulous.
Cooking Your Own Veggie Pizza
As the mozzarella keeps it all together and stops the veggies
falling off your pizza. If you rather cook your own pizza, you
can look at using ingredients from your garden. If you grow tomatoes,
you can make your own tomato paste to add to the pizza base. You
can add more fresh delicious flavors, with onions, garlic and
peppers. As these are all garden fresh, then you will be eating
all the natural flavors you expect with garden fresh ingredients.
When you go to a pizza restaurant, you do not know if the ingredients
are garden fresh, or have been kept in refrigeration for weeks,
losing all their natural flavors in the meantime. When you use
your own vegetables from your garden, then you know your ingredients
are garden fresh, as long as you make your veggie pizza on the
same day you picked the vegetables from your garden.
Making your veggie pizza using garden fresh ingredients, just
makes for a delicious and nutritious meal.
About the Author:
Julia Taylor-Fernandez has written a number of articles on cooking, food and dieting including
General Nutrition,
Meal Plans,
Teapot Cake,
Low Carb Cheese Cake,
Fresh Fruit,
Nutritional Information,
Healthy Appetizers,
Low Carb Dinners,
Health Food Store.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know?
Where can I go to find great recipes and ideas?
There are unlimited recipes found on the
internet posted by professional cooks, instructors and fellow
amateur chefs.
One place to find a plethora of recipes
as well as instructional videos is www.foodnetwork.com.
Many great recipes can be found in magazines as well as family
and friends.
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