Best Pizza I’ve Ever Made

After a crazy week at work, I slept until noon today. It was great. When I woke up, hubby was complaining of being hungry. We didn’t have much in the kitchen, but I thought I’d use up the can of pizza dough we had and make calzones. I was looking for some filling options and realized the only cheese we had was cheddar. I found some chicken sausage in the freezer and thought it would be great with some roasted peppers, mushrooms and onions. The problem is that cheddar doesn’t go with those ingredients… I mixed up some sauce that would go with the other toppings and it ended up being the best pizza either of us have ever made! Chicken Sausage & Roasted veggie Pizza – 5 WW pts – (by ME!) – serves 8Pizza Crust – I used the canned Pillsbury kind3 chicken sausage links – I used Nature’s Promise Spiced Apple Chicken SausageRoasted red & yellow peppers – I used 1/2 jar of Trader Joe’s Fire Roasted Yellow and Red Peppers1/2 medium onion – chopped
1 cup sliced baby bella mushrooms
2 Tbsp olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
Sauce:
1 Tbsp garlic mustard
3 Tbsp mayonaise – I used Nayonaise (soy-based sandwich spread)
In a small skillet, heat olive oil and garlic. Add onions until they start to turn clear. Add mushrooms and continue to cook.

Squeeze the chicken sausage out of it’s casing into a large skillet. Cook until browned.

When chicken sausage is cooked through, add contents of small skillet. Also add peppers. Stir together and simmer on low.

Mix mustard and mayo to make the sauce.

At the same time, follow directions for pizza dough and bake 10 minutes. Remove from oven.

Spread sauce onto pizza and then top with other toppings. Put pizza back in the oven for 7-10 more minutes.

Enjoy!!
Nutritional Information (please double check with your ingredients and serving sizes – I use this recipe calculator)
1 slice (1/8 pizza): 221.0 Calories, 7.5 g Fat, 24.4 mg Cholesterol, 588.2 mg Sodium, 42.8 mg Potassium, 28.5 g Carbs, 1.0 g Dietary Fiber, 5.8 g Sugar, 10.4 g Protein

WW Pts – 5

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7 Responses to “Black Bean Burgers”

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    TPOX — August 18, 2010 at 11:37 am

    I LOVE the addition of zucchini! Great idea!

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    Sherry G — August 18, 2010 at 11:47 am

    How nice of your husband to make these for you guys=) I’m glad you took down the spice and added zucchini. We’ve had a surplus around here and I can’t handle very spicy things. I might be trying this one out!

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    Krystal — August 18, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Ahhh, I’m in love with Black Bean burgers right now. I love the you added zucchini as well, it gives it a nice moist flavor! Very sweet of the DH to cook for ya, too!!

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    biz319 — August 18, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    I never thought to add zucchini to black bean burgers, but agree that it would help them stay moist – I’ll be adding the spicy though! 😀

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    Melissa — August 18, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    Yum!!! I love black bean burgers!

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    Taylor — August 19, 2010 at 3:58 am

    I’m always looking for new, tasty bean burger recipes! I bet the zucchini makes them stay super moist, which is great because many times bean burgers turn out dry…thanks for the recipe!

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    Jessica {The Novice Chef} — August 19, 2010 at 4:45 am

    Mmm I love a good black bean burger! Sounds great!

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