BY Carlene Thomas ON June 4, 2019 UPDATED ON February 3, 2023

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What to do when you know you need some greens in your life but don’t love the thought of another salad? Or when one of your family members is convinced that pizza covers the requirements for all of the food groups? Simple solution: Pizza salad!

This pizza serves up all the goodness of your favorite crispy crust, with the added benefit of nutrient-dense kale, sprouts and zucchini. This is a perfect example of how an “additive wellness” approach to nutrition can be a great way to balance the need for nutrition without having to delete dozens of food groups from our lives.

Salad Pizza

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This pizza serves up all the goodness of your favorite crispy crust, with the added benefit of nutrient-dense kale, sprouts and zucchini.

Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Lunch and Dinner Recipes

Servings 2

Ingredients

  

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• Pizza dough of choice (can be store bought or homemade)
• 1 Small can of whole peeled San Marzano tomatoes
• Drizzle of olive oil
• .5 tsp Cornmeal
• .5 tsp Sugar
• 1 Pinch of all purpose flour
• Fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
• Fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• For the Pizza:
• For the Salad:
• .5 tbsp Apple cider vinegar
• .5 tsp Whole grain Dijon mustard
• .25 tsp Minced garlic
• Drizzle of clover or wildflower honey
• Pinch red pepper flakes
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 2 cups Finely chopped kale
• .5 cups Shredded brussels sprouts
• .5 cups zucchini, thinly sliced (about 1 small)
• .5 Small shallot, thinly sliced
• 1 tbsp Flat leaf parsley, chopped

Instructions

 

• For the Pizza:
• Open tomatoes and hand crush. Heat skillet on medium-low on stove top.
• Cut pizza and serve salad on top or on platter alongside slices.
• Divide dough to form a ball that will stretch to fit about a 10-inch cast iron skillet.
• Cover and refrigerate any dough not being used.
• Preheat oven to 450° F or 500° F (as high as your oven will go) and place a rack at the top.
• In a small bowl, mix together the cornmeal, flour, and sugar. Set aside.
• Shape dough into a disc and begin to work/thin it out with your hands.
• When the skillet is hot, turn off heat and remove skillet. Add a pinch or two of the cornmeal mixture over the bottom of the pan. It should be a light coating, not full coverage.
• Push dough into pan and partially up the sides (careful, it’s hot!).
• Ladle about ⁄ cup of the crushed tomatoes and their juices onto the dough in the pan and top with cheese.
• Drizzle olive oil around the outside of the crust and down the inner sides of the cast iron.
• Bake for about 10 minutes until crust is brown. Broil for a few seconds, if desired, and remove from oven.
• For the Salad:
• While pizza is cooking, prepare salad by whisking garlic, mustard, honey, vinegar, oil, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper together in a large bowl.
• Add the kale, Brussels sprouts, zucchini, shallot, and parsley to the dressing bowl and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Keyword Dinner, Lunch, Nutrition, Pizza, Salad

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Photography by Constance Mariena

This recipe appeared in the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of The Inspired Home Journal, as part of “dditive Wellness.”