Saturday, February 27, 2016

Flatbread Pizza - 5 Ingredients!



PIZZA!  Who doesn't love it?  It is by far one of my favorite treat meals and I do indulge myself in the full on cheesy delivery goodness of it from time to time.  But, sometimes I do want the taste of it without totally blowing my workouts that week.  Add this to the fact that I had all these ingredients sitting in my fridge already and you have a 5 INGREDIENT dinner!

I was looking into the fridge, contemplating a weeknight dinner, wanting pizza but not wanting to overindulge this night.  Hmmmm...what looks good?  There's some flatbread to use up, some leftover baked chicken...OK, maybe I can do something with that?  Oh, some spinach that has about one day left before it goes bad!  Let's add that to the mix. What else....?  Ah ha!  Add some pasta sauce and mozzarella into the equation and you got yourself a flatbread pizza!

Three things I love about this meal...

1. It used up items I already had in the fridge that I didn't want to go to waste.
2. It was all of 5 ingredients!
3. It was quick and simple!



You can use this same method and adapt it to whatever you have in the fridge or whatever ingredients you like.  Here's what I did for this particular night:

Ingredients:

  • Chicken breast (This was leftover baked chicken in our fridge)
  • Pasta sauce (Right outta the jar!)
  • Flatbread (We used the Flatout brand; any flavor you like)
  • Spinach
  • Shredded mozzarella cheese
  • * I also used some olive oil spray, crushed red pepper flakes and garlic salt but those are pantry items in my house so I didn't count them as one of the five ingredients.*


Instructions:

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Put the flatbread on a baking sheet (put down some parchment paper or aluminum foil for easy cleanup).
  • Spray the flatbread lightly with olive oil spray.
  • Put in the oven for a few minutes until toasty and crisp all over.
  • Remove from the oven and top with the pasta sauce, spinach, chicken and cheese.  This is where I added some crushed red pepper and garlic salt.
  • Put back into the oven for about 5 minutes to warm the chicken and melt the cheese.


Enjoy!


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