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How You Can Make a Memorable Mediterranean Pizza Recipe at Home

It’s Friday, and the perfect day for this Mediterranean pizza recipe!

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Shouldn’t we all make pizza a Friday thing? Pizza doesn’t have to be a cheat food. With this Mediterranean pizza recipe, you can have all the cheesy goodness of pizza with none of the bloated regret later.

This post is all about a dreamy mediterranean pizza recipe!

Healthy Micro Superstars Featured in this Mediterranean pizza recipe

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What Do I Need To Do To Make a Mediterranean Pizza?

  • First, make the pizza dough. No need to look for a Mediterranean pizza dough recipe. Find my super easy dough here!
  • Then, make the Tzatziki Sauce. You can jump to recipe below, or find it here!
  • Now, you’re ready to make the Pizza.
  • Preheat the oven and add parchment paper and pizza dough to the pizza peel.
  • Sauté chickpeas and onion.
  • Spread tzatziki sauce over crust.
  • Sprinkle with sautéed compote. 
  • Dot with sun dried tomatoes and green olives.
  • Place raddichio over pizza, sparingly.
  • Dot with buffalo mozzarella.
  • Slide pizza with parchment onto the pizza stone. Bake.
  • Lastly, the salad!
  • In a large bowl, add olive oil, vinegar, and thyme. Whisk.
  • Toss with spinach and feta.
  • Sprinkle with pine nuts.

Voila! Bene! Ciao! You can serve your salad on top of the mediterranean pizza as pizza salad or on the side. Enjoy!


Gut Healthy Foods in Mediterranean Pizza

This Mediterranean pizza recipe has a ton of gut healthy ingredients! First, find the recipe below. Then, if you are still interested in learning more on how gut healthy ingredients support a healthy you, keep reading!

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mediterranean pizza recipe

Mediterranean Pizza Recipe

This Mediterranean pizza recipe includes Tzatziki sauce instead of traditional pizza sauce. With seared chickpeas, red onion, sun-dried tomatoes, radicchio, and buffalo mozzarella, it's sure to be a crowd pleaser!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 4
Calories 605 kcal

Ingredients
  

Pizza Dough
  • 2 cups whole wheat white flour
  • 1/2 cup white flour
  • 1 tsp Mediterranean sea salt
  • 2 tbsp olive oil  extra virgin
  • 2 tsp active dry yeast
  • 1 cup hot water not boiling from tap is fine
Tzatziki Sauce
  • 2 cucumbers  peeled
  • 1 lemon juiced
  • 1 cup Greek yogurt whole fat
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1/4 cup olive oil extra virgin
  • 3 tbsp fresh dill
  • 3 tbsp fresh Italian parsley
  • 1 clove garlic chopped
  • 2 tsp Mediterranean sea salt
  • 3 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp brandy Ciroc (optional)
Pizza
  • 1 can chickpeas drained and rinsed
  • 1 medium red onion thinly sliced
  • 1/3 ball buffalo mozzarella
  • 1/2 jar sun dried tomatoes drained
  • 1/4 cup Spanish green olives diced
  • 1/4 head raddichio
Pizza Salad
  • 2 tbsp olive oil  extra virgin
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 5 sprigs thyme leaves leaves minced, not the stem
  • 8 oz baby spinach
  • 1/4 cup feta crumbled
  • 2 tbsp pine nuts

Instructions
 

Make the dough. Click for "how to" directions in Pizza Dough with Baby Joe!

  • Combine in a food processor the following ingredients. Allow time to rise. This is important!
    2 cups whole wheat white flour, 1/2 cup white flour, 1 tsp Mediterranean sea salt, 2 tbsp olive oil , 2 tsp active dry yeast, 1 cup hot water not boiling

Make the Tzatziki Sauce.

  • 2 cucumbers , 1 lemon, 1 cup Greek yogurt, 1 cup buttermilk, 1/4 cup olive oil, 3 tbsp fresh dill, 3 tbsp fresh Italian parsley, 1 clove garlic, 2 tsp Mediterranean sea salt, 3 tsp ground black pepper, 1 tsp brandy

Make the Pizza

  • Preheat the oven to 525 degrees Farenheit.
  • Place your pizza stone in the oven.
  • Tear a large piece of parchment paper and place it on your wood pizza peel.
  • Saute chickpeas and red onion for 5 minutes. Remove from pan and place in a bowl.
    1 can chickpeas, 1 medium red onion
  • Roll out the dough to make a thin pizza crust. Place the crust on the parchment paper on top of the wooden pizza peel.
  • Spread your homemade tzatziki sauce over the pizza crust.
  • Sprinkle sautéed chickpeas and red onion over the pizza.
  • Use half a jar of sun dried tomatoes and dot over pizza.
    1/2 jar sun dried tomatoes
  • Dice ¼ cup of Spanish green olives. Spread over pizza.
    1/4 cup Spanish green olives
  • Place pieces of raddichio over the pizza sparingly.
    1/4 head raddichio
  • Dot with 1/3 ball of buffalo mozzarella.
    1/3 ball buffalo mozzarella
  • Once the oven is preheated, slide the pizza with parchment paper onto the pizza stone. Bake 6-10 minutes depending on how hot your oven gets. Watch closely, it will cook quickly!

Make the Salad

  • In a large bowl, make the salad.
  • Add olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and thyme. Whisk with fork.
    2 tbsp olive oil , 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar, 5 sprigs thyme leaves
  • Toss with baby spinach and feta.
    8 oz baby spinach, 1/4 cup feta
  • Sprinkle pine nuts on top.
    2 tbsp pine nuts
  • You can serve this on top of the pizza as pizza salad or on the side. Enjoy!

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Nutrition

Serving: 4gCalories: 605kcalCarbohydrates: 51gProtein: 18gFat: 40gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 5gMonounsaturated Fat: 24gCholesterol: 23mgSodium: 2142mgPotassium: 1488mgFiber: 11gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 6354IUVitamin C: 33mgCalcium: 609mgIron: 6mg
Keywords chickpeas, mediterranean, Pizza, radicchio, sun-dried tomatoes
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Now, All About the Gut Healthy Ingredients in this Mediterranean Pizza Recipe

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Mediterranean Pizza Sauce

This pizza uses homemade Tzatziki sauce instead of traditional pizza sauce. Find the recipe for this easy tzatziki sauce here!

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A Mediterranean Diet Pizza Recipe Worth Making

Layer seared chickpeas, red onion, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, and radicchio all topped with a soft buffalo mozzarella.

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Savory Seared Chickpeas and Mozzarella

Seared chickpeas are basically a super food and both improve your immune system as well as help you lose weight! Find out more about the amazing benefits of chickpeas here!

Mozzarella is an excellent source of Lactobacillus rhamnosus, a probiotic that brings positive effects to your gut. Find out more in my post on Lactobacillus rhamnosus here!

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Layered Red Onion and Radicchio!

Red onion has a super power, it’s called alliinase, and turns into allicin when cut. Read more all about this micro superstar for your gut health here!

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Meanwhile, radicchio is high in antioxidants decreasing inflammation and reducing risk for chronic disease (Panoff, 2020).

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Pass the Salad

This salad includes a vinegar, olive oil dressing. Vinegar, has been shown to be associated with feeling more full after a meal, improved insulin sensitivity, and lowered blood pressure and cholesterol (Bulsiewicz, 2020)

Mediterranean Pizza Recipe Brings You Friday Vibes

This Mediterranean pizza is a top choice among homemade pizza recipes! Throw on your favorite weekend music and start tossing the dough! And, if you’re looking for more fun pizza recipes to make at home check out Pizza Fridays here!

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