Asparagus Pizza


Who says that low sodium means no pizza? Once you make this asparagus pizza in your own home kitchen, you will never miss take out pizza again!

Certainly, you can substitute any favorite vegetable for the asparagus.

Broccoli is a nice switch up, and you are still very low in sodium with this pizza recipe.

Easy vegetarian asparagus pizza recipe with homemade pizza crust.
Be certain that you choose to use low sodium cheese, so that your total sodium count is low enough that you can enjoy several pieces of this delicious low sodium recipe.

I have found that Bel Gioioso brand of Fresh Mozzarella Cheese has a mere 85 mg of sodium per serving as opposed to regular mozzarella with a whooping 373 mg per serving.



Asparagus Pizza
 
 
1 recipe    Perfect Pizza Dough, Click here for Perfect Pizza Dough Recipe  
1 lb    thin asparagus, fresh or frozen  
2 whole roma tomatoes, chopped
1 stock green onion, chopped into slices
3   cloves garlic  
2/3 cup    fresh tomato sauce Click here for Fresh Tomato Sauce Recipe  
2 cups    grated low sodium mozzarella cheese  
5 Tbs    crumbled goat cheese  
 
1 Preheat oven to 450* for one hour.
1 Prepare pizza crust, roll out, and let sit at room temperature to rise slightly on your ungreased pizza pan or cookie sheet.
2 Steam asparagus until tender, drain.
3 Spread the tomato sauce over the crust and bake for five minutes. Remove from the oven and top with the asparagus, chopped tomatoes and green onion. Top with the cheeses.

Return to the oven for an additional 10-15 minutes, until the bottom of the crust is nicely browned, but before the cheese burns.
 
Servings: 6
 
 Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1 serving
Percent daily values based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.
The following ingredients were not linked to the ingredient database and were not included in the nutrition information:
Perfect Pizza Dough
 
       
Amount Per Serving      
Calories   148.41  
Calories From Fat (50%)   73.90  
    % Daily Value
Total Fat 8.17g   13%  
Saturated Fat 5.07g   25%  
Cholesterol 31.09mg   10%  
Sodium 226mg   28%  
Potassium 267.28mg   8%  
Carbohydrates 5.72g   2%  
Dietary Fiber 1.20g   5%  
Sugar 1.70g      
Sugar Alcohols 0.00g      
Net Carbohydrates 4.53g      
Protein 13.77g   28%  
 
 
     


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