I like pizza. Love pizza. I am legally married to pizza in 4 states with legislation pending in 3 more. I can’t live without it, and with my current diet plan, I don’t have to. Here’s how.
Look over the above image, you can see all the ingredients and the amounts you need to assemble a work of pizza art that would make Picasso jelly. If you look closely you can also see that this pizza pair clocks in at 890cals and delivers more protein (108g) than carbs and fat combined!
The process is dead simple too:
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Brown 112g of 93% or leaner beef in a small pan, while browning add dried spices (garlic, onion, oregano, basil). Ensure you save the fresh basil and don’t add it now.
- Chop and add 60g of Turkey Pepperoni to your browning beef. (There’s only two types listed in mine because I ran out of Hormel half way through).
- When the oven finishes preheating, par-bake your flatbreads for 2 minutes directly on the oven rack, taking care to make sure the corners are supported well.
- After par-baking, apply the pizza sauce to crust one and the 1% cottage cheese to crust two. Spread to the edge to avoid excessive browning.
- Sprinkle beef/pepperoni mixture evenly over both crusts.
- Sprinkle Fat Free mozzarella evenly over both crusts.
- Return to oven and bake for 6-8 minutes or until cheese is thoroughly melted and crusts begin to brown.
- Chop fresh basil leaves.
- Remove pizza two from the oven and set to cool. Turn off oven.
- Sprinkle fresh basil over pizza one while still in oven, keep in warm oven while chopping pizza two.
- Chop pizza two into 4 equal pieces and plate.
- Remove pizza one from the oven and immediately chop into four pieces, plate.
I refer to these pizzas as my personal supreme pizza (pizza one) and my ‘calzone’ pizza (pizza two). Despite not being folded, pizza two reminds me heavily of my favorite calzone from Goodies pizza in Greenfield Ma. The combination of pepperoni, hamburger, and cottage cheese (ricotta in the true calzone) just hits that craving bone for me.
So there you go, a 1-2 punch of pizza that clocks in as highly anabolic and knocks out a pizza craving like a champ. And trust me, cause my pizza cravings are pretty friggin intimidating for most diets..