Mazzullo, N. 2024, Easy Pizza, Extension | University of Nevada, Reno, Recipes

Celebrate this week's accomplishments by baking your own snack pizzas. When you make an easy homemade pizza snack with English muffins or a slice of bread, you can choose your own healthy ingredients. Pizza can incorporate all food groups by adding fruit, vegetables, lean meat, low-fat cheeses, and a whole-grain crust, decreasing the amount of saturated fat and salt.

english muffin easy pizza
Level: Easy Prep: 5 minutes Yield: 2 servings
Total: 6 minutes Inactive:  Serving Size: 1 snack pizza

Ingredients

  • 1 toasted 100% whole-wheat English muffin
    (Or slice of 100% whole wheat bread)
  • 2 tablespoons of pizza sauce
  • Sprinkle of cheese (About 1 to 2 tablespoons per muffin/piece of bread)
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons of your favorite cut veggie topping (Mushrooms, onions, peppers)

Directions

  1. Put pizza sauce on both halves of the English muffin or piece of bread.  
  2. Sprinkle cheese and your toppings on top of pizza sauce.
  3. Microwave for 45 seconds or until cheese is melted.
  4. Let the pizza rest for three minutes to allow the ingredients to fully cook.

Cook's Note

Try cutting several kinds of your favorite or seasonal veggies, placing each in their own small bowls, and allowing each family member to customize their own pizza. Or make your favorite, eat one now and freeze the other to pop in the microwave for later!

 

Nutrition Facts

2 servings per recipe
Serving size: 1 muffin half
Calories 255 per serving

Contents % Daily Value
Total Fat 13g 17%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g  
Monounsaturated Fat 4.1g  
Saturated Fat 6.6g 33%
Trans Fat 0.4g  
Cholesterol 36mg 12%
Sodium 662mg 29%
Total Carbohydrate 19g 7%
Dietary Fiber 1.4g 5%
Total Sugars 2.2g  
Protein 15g  
Potassium 227.1mg 5%
The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
 

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