Salad Pizza As A Meal

Salad Pizza is a meal that we really enjoy. I know that it is mainly meant to be a party type food, but we enjoy it as a regular meal. We make it a bit different so that it is more nutritious than the party recipe would be.

It tastes great, is not a heavy meal, but it is satisfying....it has bread, veggies and protein.

We make regular baking powder biscuit crust......and then....

.....pat it out onto a large cookie sheet............no, it doesn't look too pretty, but it works. :)

Next, we bake it for about 15 minutes or so, until it is nicely browned.

While it is baking, we cut up veggies - sometimes it varies, but we like to use carrots, peppers, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, green onions and others. Whatever your family likes should work.  We tend to really load our "pizza" with veggies - especially in the summer when we have lots of fresh ones. It is a great way to eat lots of veggies.

After the crust is baked, you can either wait for it to cool...........or since we are usually in a hurry, we put the sauce and toppings on pretty quickly while it is still warm. Our crust, with the toppings added soon, stays a bit soft and then crusty on the bottom........

For the sauce topping, we use a mixture of 8 oz of cream cheese and some ranch dressing, milk, sometimes sour cream, sometimes some dill, etc..........until there is enough sauce topping to cover the crust generously.

We don't like for it to be dry and since we are using this more as a meal, we make sure there is enough "sauce".

Then we add the veggies............and tomatoes......(in the winter when we don't have fresh tomatoes, we use canned diced tomatoes, drained, and it works well.)

Next cheese and bacon bits (real bacon bits).  Sometimes, we add olives and you could add mushrooms.....really just whatever your family likes. Then I press it down with the palm of my hands so that the toppings all settle into the "sauce" and stay put when we cut the pieces.

Next, we use a pizza cutter to cut it into squares or rectangular pieces and then we eat. For a while, we made this many Sunday evenings for our supper and loved it. We have been out of the habit, but have started having it again.....it tastes so good and it is like a big salad on a crust, but it is more satisfying than most salads and all of our family enjoys it.




Sometimes we use it as part of the meal and sometimes the Salad Pizza IS our meal. It works well either way. The flavors all blend together and taste wonderful. As a mom of a big family, I love having meals like this to add to the list of meals I serve......and it is also nice that everyone enjoys it.

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