Grated Parmesan Cheese | Low Fat Cottage Cheese | Mozzarella Cheese

Cheesy Pepper And Mushroom Pizza

Serves: 6 Servings

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c Flour (or a little less)

1/2 ts Sugar

3/4 c Lo-fat Cottage cheese,draine

Egg

1 ts Dried Basil, crushed

Med Green / Sweet Red Pepper

1 c Shredded Mozzarella Cheese *

1 pk Active dry Yeast

1 ts Cooking oil

1 tb Cornmeal

2 tb Grated Parmesan Cheese

Clove Garlic, minced

1 c Sliced fresh Mushrooms

Instructions:

* part-skim

For crust, mix 3/4 cup of the flour, the yeast, sugar, and 1/4 t salt.

Add oil and 1/2 cup warm water (120-130 deg). Beat with electric mixer on

low speed 30 seconds, scraping the bowl. Beat on high speed 3 minutes. Stir

in as much of the remaining flour as you can. Then, knead in enough

remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and

elastic (5 minutes total). Shape into a ball. Place in a greased bowl;

turn once. Cover; let rise in a warm place till double (about 30 minutes).

Punch down. Cover; let rest 10 minutes.

On a floured surface roll dough into a 14" circle. Place on a pizza pan

sprayed with Pam and sprinkled with the cornmeal. Build up edges slightly.

Bake crust in 425 deg F oven about 10 minutes or lightly browned.

In a blender combine cottage cheese, egg, Parmesan cheese, basil, garlic,

and 1/8 t pepper. Cover; blend till smooth. Spread over hot crust. Cut

green pepper into rings. Place atop pizza with mushrooms. Sprinkle with

Mozzarella. Bake in 425 deg oven till hot.

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Per serving: 224 calories, 15 g protein, 26 g carbohydrates, 7 g fat, 60

mg cholesterol, 356 mg sodium, 212 mg potassium.