Sausage, Pepper, and Onion Pizza

A robust topping of turkey sausage, onions, and peppers crown this satisfying Chicago-style pizza. French baguette halves mimic the traditional deep-dish crust—a real timesaver.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 piece)

Ingredients

• Cooking spray
• 1 1/2  cups  vertically sliced onion
• 1  cup  green bell pepper strips
• 2  (4-ounce) links turkey Italian sausage
• 1/4  teaspoon  crushed red pepper
• 1  (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1  (8-ounce) loaf French bread, cut in half horizontally
• 1  cup  (4 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

Preparation

Preheat oven to 450°.

Heat a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Add sliced onion and green bell pepper strips, and sauté 6 minutes or until tender.

Remove casings from sausage. Add sausage to pan, and cook 5 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring to crumble. Add crushed red pepper and diced tomatoes, and cook 5 minutes or until mixture thickens.

Spread sausage mixture evenly over cut sides of bread, and sprinkle evenly with cheese. Place bread halves on a baking sheet. Bake at 450° for 5 minutes or until cheese melts. Cut each pizza in half.

Nutritional Information

Calories:

375 (29% from fat)

Fat:

12g (sat 5.1g,mono 4.2g,poly 2.2g)

Protein:

24.6g

Carbohydrate:

42g

Fiber:

4.9g

Cholesterol:

63mg

Iron:

2.7mg

Sodium:

967mg

Calcium:

280mg