This is the first of a few Leaner Living Pizza recipes. I chose the Perfect Pesto Pizza first simply because it is my favorite! I believe it is my brother’s as well. Pizza is generally thought of as junk food because of its high calorie / fat / carb content, but with our touch, we turned it into pure Leaner Living gold! Even though we will be posting other pizza recipes, the basic concept will remain the same – The crust is a low-carb tortilla, the sauce is made from Leaner Living approved foods, the cheese is made with 2% or fat-free (I like 2%, my brother likes fat-free), and the toppings are Approved Lean Meats and Veggies. It is pretty simple and they do VERY well as hors d’oerves (appetizers) or as a complete meal!
This pizza has high fiber, lean proteins, vegetables, and healthy “lean” fats – See a trend?
One thing to note is that you can save time by making big batches of our pesto sauce (or buying a jar from the store) and / or grilling chicken breasts in advance (or using already cut up and grilled frozen chicken slices that come in a bag at the store).
Calories: 276 Protein: 35 g Total Carbs: 17 g (7 g net) Fiber: 10 g Fat: 12 g
Prep Time: 5 – 25 min (depends on chicken and pesto source)
What is needed (Makes 1 Serving):
- 1 medium low-carb tortilla
- 1 Tbsp pesto sauce
- 1/4 cup 2% or fat-free shredded mozzarella
- 6 oz sliced grilled chicken breast
- small handful of spinach
- Italian seasoning (optional)
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees
- Bake tortilla for approximately 4 minutes on each side until it is slightly brown and crisp.
- Remove tortilla from oven and spread pesto evenly close to the edges.
- Top cheese evenly along with chicken and spinach. Sprinkle Italian seasoning (optional).
- Place back in oven and bake until cheese melts.
- Remove your Perfect Pesto Pizza and serve in quarters.
- Take pride in knowing you just made a pizza that is actually good for you!
Edward soto says
yo spencer it Ed soto, idea for you when i was working at a italian resturant one of our single size pizza that we sold a lot of was a shrimp pesto pizza we would spread minced garlic and olive oil on the pizza lightly then pesto sauce would go over it next cooked shrimp spead evenly then cheese sprinkled over top. i have more ideas if your intrested. i;m not doing much cooking these days just barking orders to my guys but you have to when your making 15,ooo cases of soup in a 8 hour day. we have a campbells contract theres about 120 diffrent soups that we do.
Dr. Spencer Nadolsky says
Ed that sounds super yummy! I didn’t know you were a cook!