Do you have a few dinner recipes in your arsenal that you go to when you need a quick, healthy dinner? Veggie burgers, bean and cheese burritos, and popcorn are mine. I know popcorn isn’t technically dinner but on occasion, paired with a glass of wine, it is the best I can do.
It can be easy to outsource dinner to take-out or delivery but its January and we are committed to sticking with our healthy eating goals, right? Right! So, let’s skip take-out and add some new quick and healthy recipes to our collection.
What I love about this recipe is not only quick and healthy but the Greek flavor profile is delicious too. The only cooking involved is chopping the veggies and roasting them in the oven. Everything else is just an assembly job. The pizzas can be totally customized to suit your taste and the tastes of your families. Hate olives? Skip them. Love artichoke hearts? Add them.
Use a whole wheat pita as a base. You can use regular white pita too, of course, but using whole wheat bumps up the nutrition. Hummus is the sauce. You can use prepared hummus or homemade. I love making hummus at home but there are so many delicious commercially prepared tubs of hummus out there that I almost always pick up a few containers to keep in the fridge when I grocery shop.
The only step in this recipe that can be considered cooking is this one. You will chop up vegetables into uniform pieces to encourage them to roast together in harmony. If some of the veggie pieces are huge and others small, the small pieces may burn before the large ones cook through. So, uniformly chop your veggies and drain then rinse a can of garbanzo beans. The roasted beans add a little crunch to the pizza.
Warm the pitas in the oven while the veggies roast and all you have left to do is assemble pizzas and pat yourself on the back for sticking to your resolutions.
| Prep Time | 10 min |
| Cook Time | 25 min |
| Servings |
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- 1 red pepper chopped
- 1/2 red onion chopped
- 2 small zucchini halved lengthwise and chopped
- 1 can garbanzo beans drained and rinsed
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp Italian seasonings
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 whole wheat pitas
- 1 cup hummus
- 1/2 cup feta crumbled
- 1/3 cup black olives sliced
- Spicy Yogurt Sauce recipe below
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 small canned chipotle pepper finely chopped
Ingredients
Greek Pizza
Spicy Yogurt Sauce
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- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Spray a heavy baking sheet with vegetable oil cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, toss together the red onion, red pepper, zucchini, garbanzo beans, oil, cumin, Italian seasoning and salt.
- Spread the mixture in a single layer on the baking sheet. Roast until the vegetables are golden and tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Toss mixture after 15 minutes of cooking time.
- During the last 10 minutes of vegetable cooking time, place the pitas in the oven on the unused rack until warm, about 4-5 minutes.
- On each pita spread a layer of hummus, ¼ of the vegetable and bean mixture, sprinkle with feta and black olive slices. Drizzle with spicy yogurt sauce.
- In a small bowl, mix together the yogurt, lime juice, agave and chipotle pepper until smooth.
This recipe was inspired by Giada De Laurentiis’ recipe for Roasted Veggies with Chipotle Cream.
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