9 Vegetarian Foods that Will Make You Say, Damn, I Love Green Bean Pizza
This vegetarian Green Bean Pizza is going to be your next obsession. It is SO SO SO good that everyone at the table will be still be talking long after dinner!
Green bean pizza combines multi-grain wheat pizza dough, lemons, feta, buffalo mozzarella, almonds, garlic, and obvi greens beans all coated in an olive oil drizzle. If you love a unique pizza that won’t leave you feeling bloated, then this pizza is for you. I served it on a Pizza Friday to friends on the patio and we literally devoured it ALL. Every Single Piece.
This post is all about green bean pizza!
Gut Healthy micro superstars featured in green bean pizza
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What Do I Need to Do to Make Green Bean Pizza?
- First, place the pizza stone in the oven.
- Then, turn it on to preheat the oven to 550 degrees Fahrenheit, or as high as it will go without using broil.
- Next, make the pizza dough. Check out my whole wheat pizza dough recipe for a super quick and easy pizza crust in less than 10 minutes! Don’t forget to give the crust 30 minutes to rise!
- Then, add the toppings!
- Bake your pizza in the oven at 550 degrees Fahrenheit for 7-8 minutes.
- Voila! Devour this delicious pizza. It is really so so so good!
Pizza or Lemon Green Bean Salad?
This pizza is basically like a lemon green bean salad on dough! The ingredients are so simple that it is surprising HOW GOOD they taste when put together. I was worried about making this pizza without traditional pizza sauce because it looked kind of bare when I put it together. No need to worry after all, this green bean pizza is to die for and has definitely cornered regular rotation in our Pizza Friday schedule.
Gut Healthy Green Pizza Toppings
The toppings on Green Bean Pizza are super gut healthy! Normally, a food blog would just go through what they did to make the pizza. But, this is Kait’s Cupboard!
This is Kait’s Cupboard! That means we will get into all the details on what makes Green Bean Pizza so gut healthy.
Dr. Kait
If you’re still interested in learning more, bravo! You can take a look at the links to medical journals for the information straight from the source! Or, you can visit the Gut Health page to read more on how food relates to your physical and mental health!
Gut Healthy Lemon Green Beans
Green beans are a super healthy, low calorie, and delicious when combined with tangy lemon juice. Better yet, they are healthy for your heart!
While fresh green beans are super heart healthy, canned green beans are a completely different story. They are typically pretty high in sodium. Too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure and heart disease. Bottom line? Fresh or frozen green beans are best.
Green Beans are Full of Gut Healthy Vitamins
Green beans have so many vitamins including folate, vitamin C, vitamin A, and vitamin K! Vitamin C is an antioxidant that can support your immune system. Antioxidants are also very important to keep away chronic disease by keeping the bad free radicals that can develop in our bodies at bay. Vitamin K helps our body clot blood. Anyone with/or has had a toddler knows how important this is, as they are constantly banging their bodies into something. It has been found to protect against osteoporosis (Link, 2022). In fact, one cup of green beans has 18% of your daily value of vitamin K (Dr. Axe, 2016)! Finally, vitamin A supports your eye health, among other things. Green beans have 14% of your daily value for vitamin A (Dr. Axe, 2016).
Green Pizza Recipe with Garlic
Garlic is full of healthy micro superhero bacteria including allicin, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and Manganese. These superhero micro bacteria work inside your gut to keep you healthy. Garlic supports your immune system, decreases high blood pressure and cholesterol, and even can jumpstart your energy levels!
What Are Raw Garlic Health Benefits?
Learning how food benefits our bodies, can help you make better choices. So, when you’re deciding between:
- take out or cooking
- minced garlic vs. fresh garlic while grocery shopping
You can make choices that will benefit your gut health without sacrificing on anything.
Little choices add up! Bring balance to your life and make small healthy changes that will provide BIG RESULTS over time!
Dr. Kait
Fresh Garlic vs Minced Garlic Health Benefits
Let’s start with the question of fresh garlic vs minced garlic health benefits. Before devoting myself to all things gut health, I routinely bought minced garlic. It’s easy, it’s still kind of fresh, like more fresh than garlic powder, it lasts longer than a fresh head of garlic, and it doesn’t have to be chopped. Meaning time saver.
PROBLEM WITH MINCED GARLIC
Unfortunately, jarred garlic loses a significant amount of the special healthy micro superheroes that make garlic healthy for you, enter Allicin.
Allicin is a healthy superhero in garlic that is really good for you. However, garlic stored in water at room temperature loses half of its allicin in 6 days. And, garlic stored in vegetable oil lost half of its allicin in less than an hour.
DR. KAIT (SEE FUJISAWA ET AL., 2008 FOR ALL THE DEETS)
So, the minced garlic you buy at the store has certainly at least half if not less than half the allicin as compared to fresh garlic. Doctors did find that minced garlic stored in jars may have some of the immune boosting and cancer reducing benefits (Fujisawa et al., 2008).
IN ORDER OF HEALTH BENEFITS:
- Garlic Health Benefits Raw, Most Benefit!
- Minced Garlic, Some Benefit
- Garlic Powder Seasoning Health Benefits, Little
Green Pizza with Almonds
Almonds are incredibly healthy for you and your gut! Better yet, almonds are good for the economy. You can add almonds to your shop local mantra, because the United States is the largest producer of almonds worldwide (Leech, 2018). With a plethora of healthy benefits, almonds are high in fiber, antioxidants, and healthy fats.
Almonds are a Natural Antioxidant
Antioxidants keep our bodies from damage related to aging and stress. This includes reducing inflammation and the potential for cancer (Ames et al., 1993). Almonds are high in antioxidants including vitamin E, which protects our cells from damage. Vitamin E has been linked to a reduced risk of heart disease for women (Stampfer et al., 1993), prostate cancer among male smokers (Heinonen et al., 1998), reduction in colon cancer (Bostick et al., 1993), and slowing cognitive decline amongst the elderly (Morris et al., 2002).
In most of these studies, participants were taking an additional vitamin E supplement. This may be because many of us are low in vitamin E at a baseline level. But, almonds are one of the best ways to get your daily dose of vitamin E!
Green Pizza Dough
Making your own pizza dough is super fun and also allows you to control exactly what is in your crust! I use a whole wheat pizza dough recipe to create easy to roll out pizza dough. You can make a thin or thick crust depending on your preference.
This pizza dough recipe is super easy, rises well, and makes TWO pizza dough crusts. When I’m just making one pizza, I put the extra half of the dough in a freezer safe ziplock bag and throw it in the freezer. Next time I want to make pizza, I have one less step!
Baby Joe is in that age right now where he wants to be a helper with everything. If you have kids, let them in on the action! Making this whole wheat pizza dough is so easy honestly even my toddler had it figured out in less than 5 minutes.
This post was all about Green Bean Pizza!
If you love green beans, a light thin crust, and are looking for gut healthy ways to throw a pizza together, this is the pizza recipe for you!
This lean and green pizza will seriously have everybody loving their vegetables! Even the most discerning food critics!
Try it this week and post a comment below! And, if you like the blog, share it with your friends or follow me on Instagram or Pinterest!
9 Vegetarian Foods that Will Make You Say, Damn, I Love Green Bean Pizza
Equipment
- Pizza Peel
Ingredients
Green Bean Pizza Toppings
- 2 medium lemons sliced
- 6 oz fresh green beans washed and trimmed
- 1/2 piece feta in the brine roughly chopped
- 1/2 ball buffalo mozzarella cut into smallish pieces
- 1/2 cup olive oil extra virgin
- salt to taste
- ground pepper to taste
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup almonds chopped
- 5 cloves garlic minced
Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
- 1 cup whole wheat white flour
- 1/4 cup white flour
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp olive oil extra virgin
- 1 tsp active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup hot water not boiling from tap is fine
Instructions
Make the Pizza Dough
- In a food processor (or large bowl), add flour, salt, and active dry yeast. Stir to combine.1 cup whole wheat white flour, 1/4 cup white flour, 1/2 tsp sea salt, 1 tsp active dry yeast
- Add water and olive oil and blend (or stir, if using a bowl, with a wooden spoon). -If using a food processor, you can allow the pastry blade to knead the dough until soft and in one dough clump.-If using a bowl, once the dough is largely together in a clump, remove and knead on a floured surface until soft, with a play dough consistency.1/2 cup hot water, 1 tbsp olive oil
- Spray a medium sized bowl with olive oil.
- Form dough in a round ball and place in the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap or a warm, damp towel and allow to rise 30 minutes.
- After it is done rising, remove the dough.
- On a floured surface, roll out the dough to a thin pizza crust. Place on parchment paper. Move parchment paper to the wooden pizza peel.
Top the Pizza
- Pour olive oil over the pizza crust. Spread gently with a spoon.1/2 cup olive oil
- Add salt and ground pepper to taste.salt to taste, ground pepper to taste
- Spread minced garlic over the pizza crust.5 cloves garlic
- Add buffalo mozzarella onto pizza dotting pieces across the crust.1/2 ball buffalo mozzarella
- Sprinkle almonds over the pizza.1/2 cup almonds
- Add green beans in a sunburst shape on the pizza.6 oz fresh green beans
- Add feta over top the pizza filling in places where the buffalo mozzarella is not.1/2 piece feta in the brine
- Add lemon slices across the pizza.2 medium lemons
- Finally, finish with red pepper flakes sprinkled thorughout.1 tsp red pepper flakes
