How to Make a Healthy Homemade Pizza

Everyone is worried about their health these days and with good reason. Rates of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity are climbing sky high. We have to worry about the food we buy because much of it is filled with corn syrup and empty of nutrition. In response to this, many people are turning to cooking with more whole foods and making their own recipes from scratch. The results are healthy, delicious recipes packed full of nutrition that we all need.

This delicious pizza makes the most of the fresh tomatoes from your garden or the farmer's market. Choose the delicious heirloom varieties of tomatoes for the best flavor, like Brandywine, Pineapple, and Cherokee Purple or even Green Zebra if you like a little lemony zing. The finished pizza is delicious with the smoky flavor of the grill. It is also very healthy, giving you protein, fiber, and potassium. Serve this delicious treat anytime you have extra tomatoes to use up and feel like grilling. Even the kids will love its flavor and color. Serve with a garden fresh green salad full of goodness.

Recipe for Garden Tomato Pizza on the Grill

What You Need

1 pound of pizza dough
4 Tablespoons black olive spread or tapas
2 pounds vine ripened tomatoes, thinly sliced
Salt
Black pepper
1 cup fresh mozzarella cheese, grated
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, choppedHow to Make It

Prepare your dough according to your recipe.

Prepare the fire in your grill. For a charcoal grill, start with a medium-hot fire in only half of your grill. You can place 2 bricks in the middle as a divider. If you have a gas grill, preheat one burner on high but do not light the other one. For a single burner gas grill, preheat on high and lower the heat before cooking your pizza.

Roll out your dough on a floured surface to the size you want. Bring the dough, toppings, and tongs outside and set up near the grill.

Put two circles of pizza dough on the hot side of the grill. After only a minute, the dough will begin to puff up slightly and the bottom will become firm. Use the tongs to flip the dough over onto the cooler side of the grill.

Spread the tapas on top of the crusts after turning, and then cover the surface of each pizza with overlapping tomato slices, alternating red, and yellow to make a colorful design. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle mozzarella over the top. Close the top of the grill and let the pizzas cook, rotating as needed until the pizzas are cooked, should take about 5 minutes.

Remove the pizzas from the grill. Repeat the cooking steps if you have more pizzas to make. Just before you serve, sprinkle the pizzas with chopped basil.

Note: If you do not have an olive spread or tapas on hand, you can spread tomato sauce on the crusts and scatter sliced black olives on the top.