Low-Cal Pita Pizza So Good!

I found a pita pizza recipe years ago on the Weight Watchers site. Since then I’ve made these crisp, mini pizzas every way you could image. Here’s what I created tonight.

Sauce:
Ingredients
1 can tomato paste 6 oz.
1 clove garlic finely minced
¼ cup chopped basil or two frozen cubes basil (you could mix in pesto instead if you have it)
Salt
Fresh ground pepper
2 tablespoons water
In a small bowl mix together tomato paste, garlic, basil, salt and pepper to taste. Add water and stir.

Pizza:
Ingredients
½ cup of grape tomatoes
1 tablespoon of olive oil
½ cup kalmata or your favorite olives rough chopped
Fresh parsley
1/2 large ball of fresh mozzarella
1-- 4 pack of pitas (bread is your choice, regular, whole wheat, whole grain)

Pre-heat oven to 475.

Slice tomatoes in half and squeeze slightly to remove liquid and loose seeds. Remove pits from olives and roughly chop. Heat olive oil in a small sauce pan on medium high heat. Add tomatoes and sauté. Cook until heated through and skins begin to wrinkle. Add olives and reduce heat. Warm olives and then set mixture aside.

Open each pita along the sides so it becomes two flat, round pitas. Lay pitas out on cookie sheets with the outside on the bottom. Spray each pita with a mist of olive oil. If you don't have a mister you can brush or spoon a little olive oil on each pita. Spread a very thin layer of tomato sauce over each pita.

Slice mozzarella and put a good amount over each pita, covering about 70% of it. Add topping of tomatoes and olives to each pizza. Snip parsley on top.

Bake for 5 minutes or until pitas are golden brown and cheese is melted.

My Notes:
-These pizzas are designed to be low-cal, so I tend to skimp on the cheese and toppings, but you can add as much as you like.

-I like a thick sauce-- almost like a coating that bakes over the bottom of the pita bread. You can add more water to get more of a sauce consistency.

-My sauce is tart. I don't add any sugar to the tomato paste, but you could sweeten it up by adding a little in there.

-The fresh mozzarella gives this pizza a very sweet flavor against the tartness of the olives. Great combo!


Here's the link to the Weight Watchers recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/Weight-Watchers-Pita-Pizza-230254