Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Mexican Pizza

I made a Mexican style pizza toady for dinner that was only 4 WW points per serving! It tasted delicious and was very filling. We actually had pizza two nights in a row. I was in a pizza mood yesterday and awhile ago I had bought some Boboli Whole Wheat pizza crusts. I wanted to use them before they went bad.

I went to my favorite recipe blog Emily Bites to see what ideas she had. I found a recipe for a Cheeseburger pizza (click on the link for the recipe). I made that Monday night and I still had some left over ingredients. I was actually going to make another cheeseburger pizza tonight, but I had a lot of taco ingredients that I had to use soon. I decided to put them on the Boboli crust and call it a Mexican pizza!

Ingredients:
  • 3oz of 93% ground beef
  • 1 Boboli Whole Wheat Pizza Crust
  • 5 tbsps of Herdez Salsa Verde or any other brand of Verde style Salsa (it's the green kind)
  • 2 tbsps of Fat Free Sour Cream
  • 1/2 a cup of Shredded Queso Cheese
  • 1/4 a cup of Reduced fat Cheddar Cheese
  • 1/4 a cup of Tomatoes
  • 4 tbsps of Scallions
  • 3 wedges of Laughing Cow Queso Fresco Chipolte Cheese
  • 1/4 a cup of Red Onions
  • 1/4 a cup of Black Beans
  • 2 tsps of sodium less taco seasoning
  • Cooking Spray
  • Garlic Powder no more than 2 tsps
Directions:
  • Preheat oven to 450
  • Brown 1lb of ground beef in a skillet
  • While the ground beef is cooking dice the tomatoes, scallions, and red onion set aside
  • In a small bowl combine the 3 wedges of Laughing Cow cheese, Sour Cream, and 2 tbsps of Herdez Salsa when finished set aside
  • Drain ground beef
  • Add 2/3 cups of water and taco seasoning packet to the skillet
  • Add the onions to the ground beef and cook for about 5-10 minutes when ground beef/onion mixture is finished take the pan off the burner and measure out 3 ozs of ground beef/onion.
  • Put the remaining meat in a container and store in the fridge
  • Spray the outer edge of the pizza pie crust with the cooking spray about 1/2 an inch
  • With a light hand sprinkle garlic powder on the area that you just sprayed
  • Take your combined laughing cow cheese, sour cream, salsa and spread that onto the pizza pie, but make sure you don't go into the cooking spray area, that's your crust
  • Now sprinkle the beef/onion mixture, beans, tomatoes, scallions onto the pizza
  • Add the 1/4 a cup of reduced fat cheddar cheese
  • Layer the 1/2 a cup of shredded queso cheese
  • Sprinkle the remaining 3 tbsps of salsa on top
  • Cook pizza for 8-10 minutes
  • Let cool and enjoy
Servings 6 at 4 WWpoints per slice

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