For the LOVE of Pizza!

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Pizza is a weekend favorite at our house! A healthy, lower calorie pizza can be made right at home! I don't remember the last time we had pizza delivered! We always have fresh ingredients in our house such as spinach; yellow, orange & red bell peppers; mozzarella cheese; pesto sauce; olives; and whatever else we can think of to top off our gourmet pizza! 


An avid follower of the Eat Clean Diet, I am pretty good at eating clean during the week! When the weekend rolls around I allow myself to indulge in anything mexican or italian, my two favorites! This weekend the italian gourmet pizza won the craving war! This time though I stepped outside the box and tried to re-create, with my own twist, a fabulous pizza I had at a local gourmet restaurant in town! 
Here is the recipe! Try it out, its delicous!


Ingredients:
1 Whole Wheat Pizza Crust 
1/4 c. marscapone cheese or cream cheese
1/4 c. mango chutney
1/4 c. pesto sauce
1/2 c. chopped & mixed red, yellow & orange peppers
1/2 c. sliced prosciutto 
1/2 c. arugula lettuce or spinach
1/2 c. black olives
 1   c. Mozzarella cheese


Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Place your whole wheat pizza crust on a pizza stone and lightly coat crust edges with olive oil. Spread marscapone cheese over the entire crust and then top with mango chutney. Add a light amount of pesto sauce on top of the marscapone and mango chutney. Layer prosciutto, peppers, and arugula over sauce. Top liberally with mozzarella cheese and top with black olives.

Cook Time: 25 mins or until golden brown

Be creative! Experiment with making your own homemade pizza crust, homemade pizza sauce and anything fresh you might have! I would've loved to have added pears to this as well, had I had them in the house! And my 2 & 3 year old absolutely loved it!