Healthy Breakfast Pizza
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Who doesn't want to eat a pizza for breakfast? This one is made with 'clean' ingredients so you can say with confidence: this pizza is good for me.
Even better, everything can be prepped the night before, so all you need to do in the morning is put toppings on it.
Now that I think about it, this pizza can be eaten at any time of the day. Who says it must be a "breakfast" pizza? Anyway, let's get on to the actual recipe...
For the base:
1/3 C Rolled Oats
2 prunes
1 dried fig
approx. 1 tbsp peanut butter (or other nut butter)
approx. 1/2 tbsp honey
approx. 1 tsp butter
- Soak the dried fruit in hot water while you gather the other ingredients.
- Put the peanut butter, honey and butter in a small bowl and microwave until melted (I think mine took about 30 sec in a 1000 watt microwave). Stir to combine.
- Mash the dried fruit to pulp with a mortar and pestle or a food processor.
- Mix the fruit and oats into the peanut butter mixture.
- Press the oats into a circle on a greased plate (the size of the circle doesn't really matter).
- Chill in the fridge for at least ten minutes.
- Now you can put whatever toppings you fancy! I used frozen berries and mango with a Greek yoghurt base and sprinkled toasted desiccated coconut on top. You can easily toast coconut in a small pan, it only takes a few minutes (just make sure to keep an eye on it, so it doesn't burn!)
- A soluble fibre called pectin is found in figs, which is good for the digestive system and clears out accumulating cholesterol in the body.
- Prunes are also good for the digestive tract and contain high levels of vitamin C to help with iron absorption.
- Oats keep you full for longer as they are high in fibre. It also contains a non animal source of protein.
- Speaking of non animal sources of protein, peanut butter has almost 6 grams of protein per tablespoon.
Kathy xx
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