Deep Dish Pizza

Who doesn't love pizza, well ok maybe my crazy friend Reena doesn't like pizza but she is probably the only one. This is a super quick and figure friendly way to get that deep dish pizza craving under control.

Please ignore how bad the lighting is in the pictures, my kitchen light decided to blow out.

Source: adapted from Weight Watchers 5 Ingredients 15 Minutes cookbook

Ingredients
1 can refrigerated Pillsbury original crust pizza dough
1 cup pizza sauce
1.5 cups shredded part skim mozzarella cheese
3/4 lb lean ground beef
1/2 cup diced onions
10 slices turkey pepperoni (cut into 4ths)

Directions

1. Start by preheating the oven to 425. Spray a 9x13 pan with pam and press the pizza dough into the bottom and half way up the sides of the pan.



2. Cook ground beef and onions in a skillet until completely cooked. Drain then return to skillet and combine with pizza sauce. Spread evenly over the pizza crust.



3. Sprinkle cheese over the top of the beef filling then top with diced up turkey pepperoni.

4. Bake for about 15 minutes until the crust is brown and the cheese is bubbly.



5. Let cool for 5 minutes before slicing into six squares and serving.



WWPP = 8PP per slice

Beef and Ricotta Lasagna

So I am pretty sure I have mentioned before that I am a carb whore, which of course means I love pasta. Now I know I always hear from people "you can't eat pasta on weight watchers it's just too pointy" and to that I say LIES!!!!!!! Now is pasta a pointy option then say a plain chicken breast well sure, but with a little planning and combining it with good healthy ingredients it is perfectly edible.

Which brings us to today's recipe a beef and ricotta lasagna straight from the pages of yet another weight watchers cookbook I bought at my meeting a couple of months ago, Just 5. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who cooks on a budget or on a tight time schedule. As the name suggests this cookbook only contains recipes that have five ingredients, and following with weight watchers philosophy of cooking with real food you will find very few recipes call for prepackaged ingredients.

Source: Just 5

Ingredients

1.5 lbs lean ground beef
4 cups marinara sauce
8oz no boil lasagna noodles
2.5 cups fat free ricotta
1.25 cups shredded part skim mozzarella cheese

Directions

1. Preheat oven and spray a 9x13 pan with Pam.

2. Brown beef in a skillet (use salt and pepper to taste). Drain beef.

3. Put one cup of marinara sauce on the bottom of the pan then top with four lasagna noodles. Cover with half of the beef then half of the ricotta. Spread with another cup of marinara sauce then add another layer of four noodles. Cover with remaining beef followed by the remaining ricotta and another cup of marinara. Top with last four noodles then spread the last cup of marinara over the top and sprinkle with the shredded mozzarella.

4. Spray a sheet of foil with Pam then cover the lasagna and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake until cheese gets brown and bubbly (about 15 more minutes).

5. Cool for 15 minutes before cutting into 8 squares and serve.



WWPP = 10PP per serving

Now here is where I get to some of the changes I made to it. I only used 1 lb of the super lean ground beef because honestly I just thought it called for too much. Also, I ended up cutting it into 10 servings (because I wasn't very hungry) and serving it with a light ceasar salad. With those changes it ended up being only 7PP per serving.

Next time I would probably actually end up cooking it in my 7x11 pan instead of the bigger 9x13, because as you can kind of see in the picture the noodles aren't big enough to fill the pan all the way to the edges.

Chicken Sausage Sun Dried Tomato Pizza

So yesterday at my weight watchers meeting they had a new cookbook, which of course makes me very excited and I obviously bought it immediately. It's a great looking book, full of quick and easy recipes: 30 minute, 20 minute and 15 minute ones.



Flipping though I saw a delicious pizza recipe: Turkey Sausage Tomato Basil Pizza. I was wanting to make it for dinner tonight but unfortunately I didn't have the exact ingredients as I hadn't been to the grocery store so I used the recipe as a jumping point for making a pizza from what I had on hand. It turned out great so I thought I would share.

Source: adapted from Weight Watchers Fresh, Fabulous, Fast

Ingredients
Boboli thin style pizza crust
1/4 cup pizza sauce
3/4 shredded part skim mozzarella
1/4 sun dried tomatoes
1/2 apple sausage link diced


Directions
1. Preheat oven to 450 and put pizza crust on large cookie sheet (or pizza pan if you have one).

2. Dice up sun dried tomatoes and chicken sausage into even sized pieces.

3. Spread a thin layer of pizza sauce over the crust leaving room around the edge. Sprinkle the sausage and tomato pieces evenly over the pizza. Top with shredded mozzarella.



4. Bake for 8-10 minutes until the cheese bubbles and begins to brown. Once done cut into eight pieces and enjoy!



WWPP = 8PP per serving (a serving is 2 slices or 1/4 pizza)