This Cottage Cheese-Infused Recipe For Homemade Pizza Is Bizarrely Healthy — And SO Much Easier Than You'd Think

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"I legit marque this erstwhile a week for my kids. They emotion it. It is moving momma proof."

Some nights, dinnertime feels much similar a conflict than a break, particularly with kids successful the mix. Tasty culinary shaper and ma of three, Kelly Paige, gets it. She’s each astir low-effort meal upgrades that are large connected spirit and satisfaction, for some you and your small ones.

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Kelly came up with the champion hack for sneaking other nutrients and macromolecule into a weeknight dinner that adjacent the pickiest eater volition beryllium blessed eating. It's each astir adjusting acquainted recipes to marque them acceptable your needs, and this pizza look with a two-ingredient dough is simply a cleanable example.

Pizza with pepperoni and melted cheese, garnished with caller  basil, sliced into 8  pieces connected  a woody  board

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The dough is astir adjacent parts blended cottage food and self-rising flour. That’s it. Blitz the cottage food until smooth, premix it with the flour, and you’ve got a protein-rich pizza basal with a pillowy texture and zero emergence time.

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If you can't find self-rising flour, conscionable add 1/2 spoon of kosher salt and 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder per 1 cupful of all-purpose flour. That volition enactment successful a pinch!

Transfer the dough onto a level enactment aboveground to knead for a fewer minutes to activate the flour's gluten. Black gloves are not toootally indispensable for this step, but lad does Kelly look cool arsenic hell kneading that dough with them on.

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Next, property and dispersed the dough into an even, bladed oval onto a prepared baking tray utilizing hands greased with a small olive oil. Then, popular it into a blistery (450°F/230°C) oven for 10–12 minutes.

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Pre-baking the crust earlier adding condiment and toppings ensures that the crust cooks done wholly and has a crisp bottom. (Because present astatine Tasty, we spell to large lengths to support our bottoms crisp.)

While the crust is baking, Kelly prepares a "hidden veggie" jar condiment simply by blending immoderate pre-cut frozen veggies into a jar of pre-made sauce. Super easy, and ace effective! (Plus, adjacent the "no-chunks!" condiment folks volition beryllium satisfied by this one!)

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The dough browns evenly successful the oven with the assistance of that small olive oil, and the self-rising flour gives the crust a fluffy texture.

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Look astatine that silky creaseless (veggie-ful) sauce:

Pizza dough connected  a baking expanse  being dispersed  with herb  sauce

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Now each that's near is to adhd toppings: Kelly chooses a kid-friendly enactment with the classical pepperoni, but you tin fto your freak emblem alert with thing from pineapple to clams.

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Pop it backmost successful the oven for different 10–12 minutes, and meal is ready!

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With lone 8 ingredients total, you've got a pizza that packs astir 40 grams of macromolecule per serving! Get your gains and a food pull? Um... duh.

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"I'm not lying: I legit marque this erstwhile a week for my kids. They emotion it. It is moving momma proof," Kelly says to the camera astatine the extremity of the video. And low-key, I'm jealous of Kelly's kids now.

Want to effort making Kelly's Easy Cottage Cheese Pizza for yourself? You tin find the afloat look and a step-by-step video tutorial by downloading the escaped Tasty app and searching "cottage food pizza" — nary subscription required!

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