Healthy Vegetable Pizza

We all know the importance of having a healthy diet. But having such a diet means that you have to sacrifice some good food, right? Wrong! In fact, it is possible to create a great tasting, healthy pizza to meet the needs of your healthy diet.

Pizza gets a bad rap among health-conscious crowd. But in the form of essentially nothing inherently unhealthy about pizza. Flour, water, salt, and yeast are the basics for making great tasting, low-fat crust, and a simple sauce can be easily made using fresh tomatoes, garlic, spices, and fresh herbs.

Piling mounds of high fat proteins such as sausage and pepperoni on pizza will not make healthy food ... but stack them on top of lettuce that is not healthy either.

According to the Ministry of Health, we have to eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day to receive health benefits. Research has shown that eating recommended allowance can help prevent heart disease and some cancers. Unfortunately, only 15% of Americans actually achieve this target.

Really one of your favorite vegetables would work great on pizza, some of our favorites are: Artichoke Hearts, Red Onion, Mushroom, Bell Peppers, olives, leeks, spinach, and tomatoes Sun Dried.

Vegetables can be cut and placed on raw pizza, then baked with pizza dough. Another option is to saute the vegetables in olive oil and then quickly add the raw pizza. This will give the vegetables taste great with bringing out the sweetness in most vegetables, caramel their natural sugars. Instead, put them on a raw will leave more of a sense of raw vegetables. Both were very good, but it gives a sense distinctly different.

Grilling vegetables is another way to "pre-cooked" vegetables and brings out the natural sugars of vegetables. The additional benefit is the "grill flavor" is added to the vegetables. Using different combinations of vegetables and different cooking techniques you can make your own homemade pizza recipe. Many vegetables are full of vitamins and minerals, which are trans-fat free and high in fiber ... and they are not processed like so much of our food today.

By making basic pizza crust made from flour, water, salt, and yeast, making simple, fresh tomato sauce, and add fresh vegetables as toppings you can make a very healthy food for you and your family. Avoid high protein accumulates in fat, and applying cheese in moderation, and you can make a healthy vegetable pizza.