Frequently asked questions
In fact, we’ve gotten a little nerdy about it. We’ve created popular recipes for our best pizza dough, pizza sauce, and classic margherita pizza. But we were posed with a challenge: can you make a healthy pizza recipe? We created this irresistible pizza recipe that has a third the calories of a delivery pizza and has the vitamins and nutrients of fresh, colorful veggies. Dinnertime win!
Homemade thin crust: This pizza uses thin crust pizza dough. It’s made with simple ingredients (flour, olive oil, water) and because it’s thin, it has less calories than a fluffy crust. Flavorful pizza sauce: Red sauce brings big flavor without big calories. This one is our pizza sauce, a fan-favorite recipe that takes only 5 minutes and tastes like Italy. Minimal cheese. This healthy pizza has only ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese. It’s just enough to bring in a savory flavor, but there’s so much flavor in the veggies and sauce you don’t need to load on cheese. (Or try our Vegan Pizza.) Lots of veggies. Healthy isn’t just about calories: it’s about vitamins and nutrients. This pizza is topped with peppers that are loaded with vitamin C, and leafy green nutrient-dense baby arugula.
Make the dough 1 hour before serving OR make in advance. Making the dough takes only 15 minutes of hands on time. Then it rests for 45 minutes to proof before it’s ready to stretch. If you don’t have 1 hour before serving, you can make it up to 3 days in advance and refrigerate. Use a pizza stone and pizza peel, if possible. A pizza stone is what makes the crust crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. Here’s the pizza stone we recommend. To get the pizza onto that hot stone, a pizza peel is helpful! It’s a paddle that throws the dough onto that blazing hot surface. Our favorites are this aluminum pizza peel or super pizza peel, but if you don’t have one you can use a rimless baking sheet. Thin crust pizza dough is easy to shape: roll it! This pizza dough is easier to shape than our Pizza Dough Master Recipe because you roll it out with a rolling pin! This crust is easy to make: see the video above. Use Tipo 00 flour if you can find it. Our favorite flour for making pizza dough is what the Italians use: it’s called Tipo 00 and it makes the crust light and fluffy. You can find at it some grocery stores or online here.
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