I’ve been making pita pizza with Joseph’s oat bran and flax wraps and lavash bread. I’ve literally been having them almost every other day. Under 500 calories. If I’m under on protein, I have a protein shake. So filling too Edit: if anyone is interested and is using these breads. They’re very thin. Don’t use broil. I set my oven to 475 and check around 5 minutes. And usually pull around 6-8 minute mark. The broiler will not cook the underside and it’ll be soggier and not as sturdy.
I agree. Making it is much, much healthier than the pizzeria bought. And what's a charm out of it is if you continue to make it, you'll actually get better at it too!
This series is essential for people who struggle with being overweight. Eating like this and making substitutions to meals you love is the only way to lose the weight and KEEP it off for life. This is your new way of grocery shopping, this is your new way of thinking when ordering out or at a restaurant.
As a future dietitian, I love that you presented alternatives that are lower in calories without replacing the bread crust with cauliflower crust! Also, the higher protein pizza is effective because protein helps keep you feeling full for longer, so you'd be more satisfied than just filling yourself up with veggies!
The protein thing is so true. I replace the jam on my morning toast with a boiled egg and the difference it made was such a shock to me that I also added some low-fat yoghurt to my breakfast. I used to graze all morning, but now I can keep going for 5+ hours without thinking about food. It's been easier to keep my teeth plaque free too!
@@thaliacrafts407 The boiled egg thing is so true. I used to eat pretty heavily between meals and it has conditioned my body to become "hungry" during those hours. I was advised to try eating a boiled egg (with a bit of condiment of my choosing) and it works like magic. "Getting tired of boiled egg" didn't become a problem when I just stopped being "hungry" in-between meals altogether. Now I'm practicing portion control during mealtime.
Freshly washed lettuce makes a great pizza topping imo. Throw a handful on each slice along with some extra protein if you're feelin it and the pizza will fit a lot better into the diet.
Hey, I just want to let you know that YES, the first option of a leftover pizza sandwich is REALLY good. I just tried it as of this writing with two slices of left over homemade pizza and some thinly sliced ham, and it was really good. Like a Croque Monsieur but with tomato sauce rather than béchamel.
Everytime i want a healthy-ish pizza, i like to go for a 70~75% hydration pizza dough, tomato sauce as a base, then for the toppings whatever mushrooms i've got, roasted chicken & some blue cheese like fourme d'ambert or roquefort here in France. There are a lot of great combinations that doesn't involve junk food in pizza & it's fun to be creative with it. (sorry if my english isn't perfect)
Thanks so much for making this. I'm in the process of permanently re-working my diet to drop some weight, and I was sad thinking about not having the amazing pizzas I'd been doing with my Ooni oven. Going to try the high protein dough and give these a shot. I love the idea of incorporating more protein in the pizza to keep the calories lower while making it more satiating. Really appreciate you showing the macros with your recipes. Makes it WAY easier to log foods when that info is easily available!
Even just a normal pizza in an ooni is far healthier than most pizza you’d get from a delivery place. Just take it easy in the oil and cheese, it’s not that hard hahah
Up the hydration, make the pie a little smaller, add some thinly sliced lean beef as toppings. If you have an oven that can make proper pizzas I wouldn't be screwing with the dough recipe, stick to 00 flour.
I love that you keep throwing out these awesome healthy recipes, but I personally can't get enough of the spicy garlic noodles. I've made some for my mom and she loves them so much. You're a godsend on all the recipes you have been dishing out. Thank you. Stay safe, Ethan.
We LOVE the healthy videos and we SO BADLY WANT you to continue with lower calorie recipes!! In a recent video you mentioned that everything has been done already; yet there is NOTHING on youtube that is on the level of your Lower Calorie Series!! Love of all of your videos and thank you so much for how much I've learned from you!
I highly recommend adding turkey pepperoni if you like pepperoni. The first time you eat it, it can be a little underwhelming while still tasting very good. Over time you start to prefer turkey pepperoni cause of the lack of greese. It's also extremely high in protein
Most FoodTubers will take a bite and comment... I love how you eat half (or all) of it before giving commentary! hahah.. it's great1 Love your content! cheers!
My guy here just appealed to my Palestinian side so strong with that second pizza... thank you, bro! I actually love how well cultured you are in your videos. Love to see it!
He's exactly right. So many people try to cut fat by punishing themselves with food items that they hate. Because they hate it so much, they end up relapsing and going right back. The trick is to still eat things you enjoy and perhaps just moderate the amounts.
I would suggest adding the rocket in the end, when the pizza-sandwich is done. Cooked rocket it's a soggy mess, way better when it's crunchy and fresh!
I make a tortilla pizza that’s similar to this pita pizza, but it’s thinner and crispier. Just heat up a cast iron skillet on the stove and put the tortilla on it to toast the bottom while you put the toppings on top of the tortilla. Then broil it for a couple of minutes to melt the cheese. I’ll have to try this pita version sometime too.
I've been making quasadillas in the over a lot lately. I use the carb balance Tortillas, Chopped red peppers, spinach, chicken, banana peppers, salsa, lite fat free cheese. Put all that on one half of the Tortilla, fold over, put in the oven at 425F for 12-15 minutes. Serve with a large dollup of Greek yogurt
The pita pizza is so good when you’re in a hard cut. Makes large amounts of canned tuna or 99/1 minced meat actually tasty. Great when you are tired of chicken and white fish
Thank you for the garlic butter sauce technique on the crust. I was looking at pictures of a local pizzeria's pizzas and their crust had a consistent golden color that looks absolutely delicious. They mentioned a white garlic sauce however I couldn't figure out what they meant. I think this is how they did it, and I will give the garlic butter sauce a try!
My son and I make our own pizza dough and slow roast tomatoes, garlic and red onions in olive oil, balsamic vinegar and salt for our sauce….we find that if we have good quality ingredients, use pecorino in place of the cheese and lather our pizza in pecorino, we don’t miss the melty cheese and it definitely scratches the pizza itch. We end up having a healthier pizza…..or so we have made ourselves believe 😆 I love your videos Ethan!
This channel is one of my “must watch” channels daily. I have learned SO much. From the videos as well as the comments. I love that we are talking about lowering the calories on pizza and Ethan is enjoying the food so much!!
Nice, i already make similar interesting things from leftover food items that you wouldn't think to put together. And you also taught me more to add to my arsenal of healthy meals.
This pizza recipe isn't all that different from your standard homemade recipe. American versions use way to much cheese, but if you're going for the old Neapolitan style, they tend to be about the same in terms of toppings. Cooking and prep is a little different, and they don't use the keto flour, but honestly, the changes in ingredients are not that much at all. So this is encouraging for pizza lovers.
I've been on keto for the last year and a half but have eaten pizza every week. I make the crust with 50% keto flour/ 50% King Arthur Pizza '00' flour and only eat two small pieces. This video is super helpful to change things up a bit. The leftover pizza sandwich is actually genius. The King Arthur keto flour definitely can absorb more water than regular flour so I find that I change the amount of water depending on the humidity etc. The crust really tastes like regular pizza and my family basically adopted it without any complaints which is one of the main challenges when being cooking on a diet.
Ethan: What food do you actually like, and how can you incorporate them in healthy ways? Me, double fisting carrot cake and red velvet cake: Damn good question.
You are my favorite cook on UA-cam. I don't eat meat for most meals, but you are so good at presenting concepts that I can easily use your techniques with what I like to eat.
Man I have said this many times before but Man you absolutely nail the daily needs of a regular person who doesn't have all the time and expertise and with limited ingredients which can be found in any country and also the diversity I haven't seen any other mainstream western Food UA-camr nail Indian food like you have so cheers man from India, your diet foods have been a huge help getting in shape by the time for my cousin's wedding last time around and then keeping it off.
I've slowly tried to incorporate jowar and pearl Millet flour in my tortillas. My grandma used to make 100% peral millet rotis when I was a kid. But I'm too weak for it now. So when making pizza or anything I do 20% 80% or 40% 60% pearl to wheat ratio.
Thumbs up for that intro alone. Totally made a pita pizza a couple weeks ago completely out of leftover ingredients I had in my kitchen for a healthy-ish lunch. Pita from falafels, spinach dip for the sauce, mushrooms and grated cheese from various dinners, and carnitas from Costco. It was oddly good, considering I used to make them with more "traditional" pizza ingredients before.
I’d love to see the science behind prepping ingredients ahead of time. I work a weird schedule & my lady works 70+ hour weeks. So cooking falls on me. She isn’t a fan of meal prep/leftovers, she prefers her food freshly cooked. But I would like to prep some ingredients ahead of time, so I can knock out different recipes, but I have no idea how long they’ll stay fresh for or anything like that.
The Pro Home Cooks channel has a lot of tips going that way, pantry organizing, how to prepare some stuff ahead of time to save time for what is actually better fresh, and so on. Worth checking it out
at 1:20 THANK you!!! So happy you kept it real. Who only eats one slice? Like I am sure some people do just stop at one... but those people sure aren't watching this video. I had no idea about your weight loss (congratulations) love your stuff, your videos have got me cooking more than ever (meal prep fro lunches)
My favourite thing about your videos is how you implement ingredients from various regions all the time. Liban and Zatar is a staple breakfast or snack for us, turning it into a pizza sounds like an interesting idea, gotta give it a try.
I’ve been using low carb tortillas as the base. I also make quesadillas with them but I’m going to do it with some pizza sauce, mozzarella and veggies.
My bros, try making pizza bases with self raising / self rising flour and no fat Greek yoghurt! I do 3 parts self raising flour, 1 part chickpea flour / gram flour and 3 parts yoghurt. It’s a high protein base, take it easy on the toppings and eat it’s decently healthy meal. Tastes just like regular pizza base to me. Self raising flour is not popular everywhere. I’m Australian and it’s common here. No need to let the dough rise and no need for yeast.
0:19 Coming up on nine weeks in calorie-deficit dieting for fat loss, just had myself half a slice of pizza. Tasted great, didn't blow my calorie budget. Just gotta be smart about it. Still, half a slice of pizza being 155 calories wasn't cool. Can't wait to see what you show us.
I have been doing the pita pizza thing for probably 15-20 years now and have gotten it down where we almost never get pizza anymore. It almost doesn't seem worth it in price or the price my G.I. pays when I have eaten it. My only word of caution is that not all pita's are created equally, especially when it comes to calories. I have seem them as low as 150 and as high as 380 in calories. And while generally the higher calorie pitas are going to come closer to what you might get in a pizza crust, the truth is you really won't notice it much once you have all your toppings in place. Great video.
Hell yeah dude! Thanks for making this video. I'm down 40 lbs since Sept, and still eating pizza, burgers, chicken sandwiches, burritos, sushi, etc. Losing weight doesn't HAVE TO mean subscribing to some fad diet you hate (and will eventually relapse from). Appreciate the insights and will definitely make that dough soon!
I've been using your pinsa dough recipe to make protein pasta, and I think in that context (especially when using a fresh egg) it tastes nearly identical to regular flour pasta while having much higher protein and satiety!
no cap you are one of the most creative cooking bros across literally all of youtube. top percentile in creative awesome food that people can just straight up make at home without any nonsense
As a Swede, thanks for schooling the rest of the world of the power and awesomeness of fresh toppings. I love pizza but I can't imagine eating any without something fresh to cut through all the grease or savouriness. Good video as always Ethan, you are a huge inspiration for wanting to become more healthy.
I like making frozen pizza in my air frier. When i first bring it home frozen, I slice it into individual pieces and stack it to store in my freezer. I used to eat wayy too much when I'd cook the whole thing in my oven, but now I can make a slice when i want it, and it's actually so much better air fried vs baked in a regular oven. Asd a side salad, soo good!
Ethan. I am both heart broken as well as excited to see that you have tweaked the recipe. After multiple trips to multiple grocery stores, two weeks of shipping delays and finally receiving the various other flours needed for the previous rendition of the Pinsa, I made the dish and my dough did not rise great. Still was happy for the first try, but now I feel the absolute urge to get this new flour and try out this as well.
Pizza and Mexican are my favorite foods. Got the call the other day that the doctor is afraid I'm headed down the road to pre-diabetes! So I've eaten no simple carbs since a couple days ago, just veggies, no sugar sauces, and eggs. (I'm vegg. Vegetarian=skinny is a lie.) Had an impossible burger with no bun and just sauce. I'm 95 pounds overweight. This will help, thanks a bunch!
Preheat your oven to 500degrees with an iron skillet in the oven to preheat too. Flatten 1/6 of a Trader Joe’s pizza dough onto a piece of parchment paper that fits inside your pan, almost edge to edge. Put the crust into the pan for a minute or so, just until the top looks like it’s starting to bake. Take the crust back out of the pan (keep the paper underneath) and top it with pizza sauce, one portion of Trader Joe’s Quattro Fromagio, turkey pepperoni, maybe some sautéed mushrooms. Bake in iron pan 8-9 minutes. That’s a satisfying pizza for me with a nice green salad. You can also use pesto on that pre baked crust with some drained, canned fire roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, etc and the cheese for something different. I always have these ingredients on hand. The separate dough ball thaws out and comes to room temp pretty fast so you can have pizza in less time than it takes to order.
What!? How in the heck did I not know about his weight loss before watching THIS video, today? Wow... I NEVER would've known. I know that I'm almost a year late to this video, but good for YOU man!! 👍🏽👍🏽
Tortilla "NJ bar" pizza is my cheat. It's thin, crispy, super legit and truly delicious. If you don't think about the fact that you used a premade supermarket tortilla, it's just damn good pizza. I /much/ prefer it to using pita or naan. Ingredients: 1. Largest Mission brand tortilla (8 inch -- in my experience fancier/artisan tortillas don't perform as well) 2. Good jarred tomato sauce (like Rao's) or Sclafani crushed 3. Whole milk (or skim if you'd like) mootz from the deli (e.g. Wisconsin or Boar's Head) cut not too thin and not too thick -- the thickness of precut deli slices 4. Any good hard cheese like Parm or Romano to taste 5. Light touch with some oregano (pinch it to revive it) Method: Middle rack steel, stone, or half sheet pan 4-5'ish min at (preheated) 425-450 (depending on oven, heat source location and baking surface) Make sure when you sauce and cheese it you put down sauce 1st to the edge so the edge won't burn. The deli mootz will spread and steam and look like grated at the end (pock-marked like the real thing). Leave some space between slices of cheese. Put the oregano (can alternatively use marjoram -- can leave out oregano if already in sauce) and hard cheese on before the mootz. You'll end up with something so much better than it has any right to be and on the short list of best pizzas I've had... no joke... uber thin and crispy, and impossibly easy to make.
As I learned how to cook from scratch my favourite pizza, I manage to be able to eat -a lot of pizza lol- every other weekend and stay in shape, maintaining my ideal weight, reaching my daily protein intake no problem, and even more when I have a high intensity week ahead... pizza it's just amazing how versatile it is and how easy is to fit it into a nutritional program, and I'm very strict with my food intake. My secret is giving the dough at least 12 hours of fermentation, or 24 if you can so you can make it really thin, that way you eat less carbs. Then choose high protein toppings like meat or chicken. Use an italian passata as sauce, wich is pure tomato (very low calorie) and then going easy on the cheese, wich is hard but can be done 🤣if you can find a low fat cheese, even better. That way you can have a nice traditional pizza without the extra calories.
Thank you for showing a pizza base that ISN'T made with cauliflower/broccoli rice! I do like them, I'll admit, but they're a pain in the ass to make from scratch, and I can't find anywhere that sells them as a product without them undoing all the good low-calorie work with a load of high-fat, high-sugar toppings. I'd probably do the base with half wholemeal flour instead of the keto flour, to try and up the fibre content... I guess that would work too?
I make what I call pizza de gallo for my pizza toping its equal parts fine diced Roma tomato, red onion, yellow and red bell pepper, stir in some sea salt, crushed red pepper, fresh smashed garlic clove, dry basil, oregano, EVOO, parmesan cheese. combine in a bowl and let sit for at least one hour in the fridge, then I top my pizza in this order with tomato sauce sliced mushrooms, pizza de gallo, grated string cheese, sliced pickled garlic stuffed green olives, and your protein of choice I like smoked turkey. I will typically do this to a frozen cheese pizza or just use tortillas but mostly I use frozen sour dough bread lightly brushed with garlic infused EVOO on the bottom to crisp it up assembled in a cold cast Iron skillet then cook in the oven pre heated @400f for 20 minutes.
Love the content. This video was right on time for me, I was actually planning on making my own dough and NY style with a stone, so this is perfect. I lost 100 lbs about 14 years ago, but I have been Intermittent fasting since 2009, so making my own large pizzas for dinner sounds like a perfect plan 👍
That higher protein pizza at the end looks fantastic. The first two I was kind of iffy on, especially the second one which I wouldn't even consider pizza, but that third recipe, now THAT is real pizza only healthier and which a much more favorable macro balance. Great job Ethan!
@@metalliholic Yeah not saying it didn't look good just that I would not call it pizza even a little bit. It depends on how one defines pizza, for some people they might say that it's any kind of flatbread that you put shit on top of, but for me, no.
I use Joseph's lavash bread to make a flatbread "pizza" almost every weekend. You can make two huge flatbreads for maybe 600 calories. Really makes dieting easier.
that bread is full of crap that will destroy your digestive system, your intestines don't like soluble corn fiber and soybean oil. But I guess. that's what dieting is now, just put fake food in your body so it goes right through you.
@@kenm2709 It’s literally just a really thin flatbread. No different than any other bread. It’s just flour, water, and oil. I hate how people like you make up dumb shit and falsely criticize everything.
Big fan of doing cauliflower crusts for pizza instead of dough as a healthier alternative. Seen them in some supermarkets which makes it way easier to do that than making some dough from scratch.
I wholeheartedly agree about finding healthier alternatives to foods you already enjoy, been doing that and have lost 60lbs, it's the ONLY thing that's worked for me.
I havent even watched the video but in the past week I've been making pizzas from scratch (never made before) and since early January ive been eating more consciously and have kept off nearly 14lbs.... I don't think I've gained any weight since my recent pizza making fad hahaha
OMG, this come at a time when I really wanted to eat healthy pizza. Thank you so much for the recipe. I cannot wait to see you get one million subscribers. You deserve all the love.
A practice in my family, is to take the pizza slice and SMACK it upsidedown on the empty side if the pizza box to remove excess oil. We used to just use tissue until my sister figured this out.
In germany we usually use Speltflour for Highprotein Pizza. Mine usually has 11 G of Protein per 100 g so at 150 G that would be around 16 G Protein. Just in case someone doesnt want to use Ketoflour
pita pizza is a cheat code. I use hummus and bbq for the base and top the pizza off with 2 big handfuls of lettuce and low fat mayo+mustard+siracha. TOO DAMN GOOD
I make a tortilla pizza with carb balance tortillas. They're high in fiber, but they don't particularly taste good (kinda taste like nothing, really, which is fine if you top it with bold flavors). They're also easy to burn, but with some practice they can be crisped up on a cast iron skillet fairly easily. Top with pizza toppings and throw it in an air fryer (if your can handle a 10" tortilla) or under the broiler (in the same cast iron you crisped it up in) and you got yourself a passable enough pizza to scratch that itch, plus some bonus fiber/protein to keep you full!
So far, I have been making 80 /20 cheeseburgers and been able to lose weight without sacrificing what I enjoy eating. Now I am considering an alternative to eating pizza as opposed to avoiding it.
For those of us not in the US, instead of trying to find some rare keto flour online and pay 3x the price in shipping, just stick to tipo 00 for the dough and use lower fat higher protein cheese and add some lean meat as toppings.
if you really want to scratch that "eat a whole pizza" itch, i recommend working intermittent fasting or time-restricted eating into your diet. i have pizza once a week (with homemade low-carb cauliflower crust, homemade marinara, beldi dry cured olives, bacon, sautéed mushrooms, pepperoni and 6 oz of fresh mozzarella). it's about 1500-1600 calories, but it's all i eat for the day. eating just once in a day takes some getting used to, but for me at least it's easier to have one meal "scratches" whatever itch i have than to try to have 2 800 calorie meals or 3 500 calorie meals or whatever
I succeeded in going from 320lbs down to 200lbs because I never got rid of any food all the time. Instead I went the cheat meal route, where once a week for a single meal I treated myself to one of my favorite foods or something I've been craving that didn't fit into the meal plan for the week. It was enough for me, since leading up to this I shrank my portion sizes little by little before switching to a healthier menu.
Related topic to pita - use a tortilla for even less carbs. I just go tomato sauce, mozzarella, and red onions myself. Put it on a cookie sheet for like 12 mins or so. I think I got this from Jacque Pepin.
I’ve been making pita pizza with Joseph’s oat bran and flax wraps and lavash bread. I’ve literally been having them almost every other day. Under 500 calories. If I’m under on protein, I have a protein shake. So filling too
Edit: if anyone is interested and is using these breads. They’re very thin. Don’t use broil. I set my oven to 475 and check around 5 minutes. And usually pull around 6-8 minute mark. The broiler will not cook the underside and it’ll be soggier and not as sturdy.
Let’s be honest, it’s not that filling
@@gene5237 especially after drinking it for more then 2 months..
Agreed, those wraps are money to load up with toppings!
@@gene5237 I meant the “pizza” and the protein shake combined making it filling. But sometimes the pizza is enough.
@@danieldanielson2324 I know what you meant. To me both aren’t filling at all
If you can manage to make pizza healthy and still taste good, you can run the world! Love it!
I agree. Making it is much, much healthier than the pizzeria bought. And what's a charm out of it is if you continue to make it, you'll actually get better at it too!
He already runs my kitchen world. So I'd say he's very close to world domination
Sadly texture is garbage
Healthy in this context is quite relative but yeah.
Use vital wheat gluten instead of wheat flour. Tastes 100x better than any frozen pizza if you prepare the dough properly.
Ethans secret to getting in shape was replacing onion rings with pickled onions.
Lol facts, pickled onion king.
Hell yeah! Pickled Onion FTW
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Actually pickled onions are acidic, which can actually help your body with nutrient absorption
This series is essential for people who struggle with being overweight. Eating like this and making substitutions to meals you love is the only way to lose the weight and KEEP it off for life. This is your new way of grocery shopping, this is your new way of thinking when ordering out or at a restaurant.
This 'Healthy but tasty' series has been consistently excellent, thank you!
As a future dietitian, I love that you presented alternatives that are lower in calories without replacing the bread crust with cauliflower crust! Also, the higher protein pizza is effective because protein helps keep you feeling full for longer, so you'd be more satisfied than just filling yourself up with veggies!
The protein thing is so true. I replace the jam on my morning toast with a boiled egg and the difference it made was such a shock to me that I also added some low-fat yoghurt to my breakfast. I used to graze all morning, but now I can keep going for 5+ hours without thinking about food. It's been easier to keep my teeth plaque free too!
Try chicken dough. Full protein insanity
@@thaliacrafts407 The boiled egg thing is so true. I used to eat pretty heavily between meals and it has conditioned my body to become "hungry" during those hours. I was advised to try eating a boiled egg (with a bit of condiment of my choosing) and it works like magic.
"Getting tired of boiled egg" didn't become a problem when I just stopped being "hungry" in-between meals altogether. Now I'm practicing portion control during mealtime.
@@ayumuchorizo4486 Not good for your cholesterol though
@@CyberMachine thats a muth
Freshly washed lettuce makes a great pizza topping imo. Throw a handful on each slice along with some extra protein if you're feelin it and the pizza will fit a lot better into the diet.
Don't think I've ever had pizza without salad (maybe as a kid). It's literally so good.
Romaine lettuce is so tasty
The lettuce nation rises!
Welp now I’m craving pizza for breakfast
Idk don’t know if y’all have already, but a colab between y’all would be epic
@@Snsebshfjdh hard agree!
Hi Lisa!
Fancy seeing you here, just discovered your channel like two days ago. Killer content, just like Ethan
Any pizza with bacon qualifies as breakfast.
Hey, I just want to let you know that YES, the first option of a leftover pizza sandwich is REALLY good. I just tried it as of this writing with two slices of left over homemade pizza and some thinly sliced ham, and it was really good. Like a Croque Monsieur but with tomato sauce rather than béchamel.
@@sinch4044 r/IFoundTheAsshole
Everytime i want a healthy-ish pizza, i like to go for a 70~75% hydration pizza dough, tomato sauce as a base, then for the toppings whatever mushrooms i've got, roasted chicken & some blue cheese like fourme d'ambert or roquefort here in France. There are a lot of great combinations that doesn't involve junk food in pizza & it's fun to be creative with it. (sorry if my english isn't perfect)
Nah I think it's perfect!
That sounds amazing 😋
The pita pizza has honestly changed my life. Thank you so much for introducing me to it back in the original video, Ethan.
A sandwich press works like a magic trick for the first one btw. No diddling about with a frying pan and lid and stuff
Thanks so much for making this. I'm in the process of permanently re-working my diet to drop some weight, and I was sad thinking about not having the amazing pizzas I'd been doing with my Ooni oven. Going to try the high protein dough and give these a shot. I love the idea of incorporating more protein in the pizza to keep the calories lower while making it more satiating. Really appreciate you showing the macros with your recipes. Makes it WAY easier to log foods when that info is easily available!
Even just a normal pizza in an ooni is far healthier than most pizza you’d get from a delivery place. Just take it easy in the oil and cheese, it’s not that hard hahah
@@swimfan752 yeah less sugars and oil than fast food. cheese probably better for you too and the sauce will definitely have less sugar/salt
just the whole pizza one day and get back on track for the rest of the week.
Up the hydration, make the pie a little smaller, add some thinly sliced lean beef as toppings. If you have an oven that can make proper pizzas I wouldn't be screwing with the dough recipe, stick to 00 flour.
I love that you keep throwing out these awesome healthy recipes, but I personally can't get enough of the spicy garlic noodles. I've made some for my mom and she loves them so much. You're a godsend on all the recipes you have been dishing out. Thank you. Stay safe, Ethan.
We LOVE the healthy videos and we SO BADLY WANT you to continue with lower calorie recipes!! In a recent video you mentioned that everything has been done already; yet there is NOTHING on youtube that is on the level of your Lower Calorie Series!! Love of all of your videos and thank you so much for how much I've learned from you!
I highly recommend adding turkey pepperoni if you like pepperoni. The first time you eat it, it can be a little underwhelming while still tasting very good. Over time you start to prefer turkey pepperoni cause of the lack of greese. It's also extremely high in protein
Most FoodTubers will take a bite and comment... I love how you eat half (or all) of it before giving commentary! hahah.. it's great1 Love your content! cheers!
the guy loves food, kinda relatable
@@JafacaksWasTaken absolutely! Never thought I'd enjoy watching someone scarf down food! haha.. but here we are
My guy here just appealed to my Palestinian side so strong with that second pizza... thank you, bro! I actually love how well cultured you are in your videos. Love to see it!
He's exactly right. So many people try to cut fat by punishing themselves with food items that they hate. Because they hate it so much, they end up relapsing and going right back. The trick is to still eat things you enjoy and perhaps just moderate the amounts.
I would suggest adding the rocket in the end, when the pizza-sandwich is done. Cooked rocket it's a soggy mess, way better when it's crunchy and fresh!
Agreed
I make a tortilla pizza that’s similar to this pita pizza, but it’s thinner and crispier. Just heat up a cast iron skillet on the stove and put the tortilla on it to toast the bottom while you put the toppings on top of the tortilla. Then broil it for a couple of minutes to melt the cheese.
I’ll have to try this pita version sometime too.
I've been making quasadillas in the over a lot lately. I use the carb balance Tortillas, Chopped red peppers, spinach, chicken, banana peppers, salsa, lite fat free cheese. Put all that on one half of the Tortilla, fold over, put in the oven at 425F for 12-15 minutes. Serve with a large dollup of Greek yogurt
The pita pizza is so good when you’re in a hard cut. Makes large amounts of canned tuna or 99/1 minced meat actually tasty. Great when you are tired of chicken and white fish
Man that’s not pizza anymore that pita-tuna bread, man
@@Alexcutspie you are complete right
@@haessfau5282, @Alexcutspie sounds good though :)
Thank you for the garlic butter sauce technique on the crust. I was looking at pictures of a local pizzeria's pizzas and their crust had a consistent golden color that looks absolutely delicious. They mentioned a white garlic sauce however I couldn't figure out what they meant. I think this is how they did it, and I will give the garlic butter sauce a try!
0:23 lol Gabe couldn't even get through that shot without laughing. So funny.
Tortillas also make for good pizza bases and have less than 200 calories. Works wonders.
"Curl the pizza, and cut the tip"
+Ok, and we eat the tip
"The triangle completes the gap"
Too late, ate the triangle.
My son and I make our own pizza dough and slow roast tomatoes, garlic and red onions in olive oil, balsamic vinegar and salt for our sauce….we find that if we have good quality ingredients, use pecorino in place of the cheese and lather our pizza in pecorino, we don’t miss the melty cheese and it definitely scratches the pizza itch. We end up having a healthier pizza…..or so we have made ourselves believe 😆
I love your videos Ethan!
This channel is one of my “must watch” channels daily. I have learned SO much. From the videos as well as the comments. I love that we are talking about lowering the calories on pizza and Ethan is enjoying the food so much!!
Nice, i already make similar interesting things from leftover food items that you wouldn't think to put together.
And you also taught me more to add to my arsenal of healthy meals.
You are so good at making videos, there so organized, simple, informative, and easy to watch. I’m proud of you.
This pizza recipe isn't all that different from your standard homemade recipe. American versions use way to much cheese, but if you're going for the old Neapolitan style, they tend to be about the same in terms of toppings. Cooking and prep is a little different, and they don't use the keto flour, but honestly, the changes in ingredients are not that much at all. So this is encouraging for pizza lovers.
I've been on keto for the last year and a half but have eaten pizza every week. I make the crust with 50% keto flour/ 50% King Arthur Pizza '00' flour and only eat two small pieces. This video is super helpful to change things up a bit. The leftover pizza sandwich is actually genius. The King Arthur keto flour definitely can absorb more water than regular flour so I find that I change the amount of water depending on the humidity etc. The crust really tastes like regular pizza and my family basically adopted it without any complaints which is one of the main challenges when being cooking on a diet.
where do you find keto flour? What is it?
Ethan: What food do you actually like, and how can you incorporate them in healthy ways?
Me, double fisting carrot cake and red velvet cake: Damn good question.
Could try making your own with some extra carrot, but probably not extra velvet. YMMV
@@jameshe uber protein cakes. i love it
I love carrot cake too and there are MANY youtube videos showing how to make it healthier.
For the cake: Replace some of the flour with whey/casein protein powder and use Swerve instead of sugar.
So I have to eat the whole pizza and leave over one slice to make this recipe
You are my favorite cook on UA-cam. I don't eat meat for most meals, but you are so good at presenting concepts that I can easily use your techniques with what I like to eat.
The first pizza is just like a very famous pizza here in brazil, a traditional pizza with toppings of arugula and dried tomato, its incredible
Cool bro tell us more
@@jimbojimbo6873I can’t tell if u r sarcastic or serious
Man I have said this many times before but Man you absolutely nail the daily needs of a regular person who doesn't have all the time and expertise and with limited ingredients which can be found in any country and also the diversity I haven't seen any other mainstream western Food UA-camr nail Indian food like you have so cheers man from India, your diet foods have been a huge help getting in shape by the time for my cousin's wedding last time around and then keeping it off.
I've slowly tried to incorporate jowar and pearl Millet flour in my tortillas. My grandma used to make 100% peral millet rotis when I was a kid. But I'm too weak for it now. So when making pizza or anything I do 20% 80% or 40% 60% pearl to wheat ratio.
Thumbs up for that intro alone. Totally made a pita pizza a couple weeks ago completely out of leftover ingredients I had in my kitchen for a healthy-ish lunch. Pita from falafels, spinach dip for the sauce, mushrooms and grated cheese from various dinners, and carnitas from Costco. It was oddly good, considering I used to make them with more "traditional" pizza ingredients before.
I’d love to see the science behind prepping ingredients ahead of time. I work a weird schedule & my lady works 70+ hour weeks. So cooking falls on me. She isn’t a fan of meal prep/leftovers, she prefers her food freshly cooked. But I would like to prep some ingredients ahead of time, so I can knock out different recipes, but I have no idea how long they’ll stay fresh for or anything like that.
The Pro Home Cooks channel has a lot of tips going that way, pantry organizing, how to prepare some stuff ahead of time to save time for what is actually better fresh, and so on. Worth checking it out
@@Grilnid dope! I’ll definitely have to scope it out, thanks!
at 1:20 THANK you!!! So happy you kept it real. Who only eats one slice? Like I am sure some people do just stop at one... but those people sure aren't watching this video. I had no idea about your weight loss (congratulations) love your stuff, your videos have got me cooking more than ever (meal prep fro lunches)
I make pizza with these low carb tortillas and it was literally a game changer when it came to my keto diet
My favourite thing about your videos is how you implement ingredients from various regions all the time. Liban and Zatar is a staple breakfast or snack for us, turning it into a pizza sounds like an interesting idea, gotta give it a try.
I’ve been using low carb tortillas as the base. I also make quesadillas with them but I’m going to do it with some pizza sauce, mozzarella and veggies.
My bros, try making pizza bases with self raising / self rising flour and no fat Greek yoghurt! I do 3 parts self raising flour, 1 part chickpea flour / gram flour and 3 parts yoghurt. It’s a high protein base, take it easy on the toppings and eat it’s decently healthy meal. Tastes just like regular pizza base to me.
Self raising flour is not popular everywhere. I’m Australian and it’s common here. No need to let the dough rise and no need for yeast.
>"pizza is bare minimum of 2 slices, but more likely 3 to 4 slice occasion"
>me eating whole large pepperoni pizza alone hmm
I can’t get past the first couple minutes. Seeing that New York slice makes me want one too!
I'm really loving this healthy content as of late, keep it up
0:19 Coming up on nine weeks in calorie-deficit dieting for fat loss, just had myself half a slice of pizza. Tasted great, didn't blow my calorie budget. Just gotta be smart about it. Still, half a slice of pizza being 155 calories wasn't cool. Can't wait to see what you show us.
*Ethan changed our all lives with his amazing recipes!*
I have been doing the pita pizza thing for probably 15-20 years now and have gotten it down where we almost never get pizza anymore. It almost doesn't seem worth it in price or the price my G.I. pays when I have eaten it. My only word of caution is that not all pita's are created equally, especially when it comes to calories. I have seem them as low as 150 and as high as 380 in calories. And while generally the higher calorie pitas are going to come closer to what you might get in a pizza crust, the truth is you really won't notice it much once you have all your toppings in place. Great video.
Hell yeah dude! Thanks for making this video. I'm down 40 lbs since Sept, and still eating pizza, burgers, chicken sandwiches, burritos, sushi, etc. Losing weight doesn't HAVE TO mean subscribing to some fad diet you hate (and will eventually relapse from). Appreciate the insights and will definitely make that dough soon!
Ethan seriously this series is gold please do not stop!
I've been using your pinsa dough recipe to make protein pasta, and I think in that context (especially when using a fresh egg) it tastes nearly identical to regular flour pasta while having much higher protein and satiety!
no cap you are one of the most creative cooking bros across literally all of youtube. top percentile in creative awesome food that people can just straight up make at home without any nonsense
As a Swede, thanks for schooling the rest of the world of the power and awesomeness of fresh toppings. I love pizza but I can't imagine eating any without something fresh to cut through all the grease or savouriness. Good video as always Ethan, you are a huge inspiration for wanting to become more healthy.
please keep doing these you're the goat and only youtube who gets dieting and eating delicious with easy recipes
The pizza sandwich is genious! I find that sauces can really add calories quickly, so I measure sauce as well, like hot chili sauce and mayonaise🥰
I like making frozen pizza in my air frier. When i first bring it home frozen, I slice it into individual pieces and stack it to store in my freezer. I used to eat wayy too much when I'd cook the whole thing in my oven, but now I can make a slice when i want it, and it's actually so much better air fried vs baked in a regular oven. Asd a side salad, soo good!
Ethan. I am both heart broken as well as excited to see that you have tweaked the recipe. After multiple trips to multiple grocery stores, two weeks of shipping delays and finally receiving the various other flours needed for the previous rendition of the Pinsa, I made the dish and my dough did not rise great. Still was happy for the first try, but now I feel the absolute urge to get this new flour and try out this as well.
Pizza and Mexican are my favorite foods. Got the call the other day that the doctor is afraid I'm headed down the road to pre-diabetes! So I've eaten no simple carbs since a couple days ago, just veggies, no sugar sauces, and eggs. (I'm vegg. Vegetarian=skinny is a lie.) Had an impossible burger with no bun and just sauce. I'm 95 pounds overweight. This will help, thanks a bunch!
the way ethan enjoys his own food is usually one of the best parts of his videos lmao
Preheat your oven to 500degrees with an iron skillet in the oven to preheat too. Flatten 1/6 of a Trader Joe’s pizza dough onto a piece of parchment paper that fits inside your pan, almost edge to edge. Put the crust into the pan for a minute or so, just until the top looks like it’s starting to bake. Take the crust back out of the pan (keep the paper underneath) and top it with pizza sauce, one portion of Trader Joe’s Quattro Fromagio, turkey pepperoni, maybe some sautéed mushrooms. Bake in iron pan 8-9 minutes. That’s a satisfying pizza for me with a nice green salad. You can also use pesto on that pre baked crust with some drained, canned fire roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, etc and the cheese for something different. I always have these ingredients on hand. The separate dough ball thaws out and comes to room temp pretty fast so you can have pizza in less time than it takes to order.
What!? How in the heck did I not know about his weight loss before watching THIS video, today? Wow... I NEVER would've known. I know that I'm almost a year late to this video, but good for YOU man!! 👍🏽👍🏽
Tortilla "NJ bar" pizza is my cheat. It's thin, crispy, super legit and truly delicious. If you don't think about the fact that you used a premade supermarket tortilla, it's just damn good pizza. I /much/ prefer it to using pita or naan.
Ingredients:
1. Largest Mission brand tortilla (8 inch -- in my experience fancier/artisan tortillas don't perform as well)
2. Good jarred tomato sauce (like Rao's) or Sclafani crushed
3. Whole milk (or skim if you'd like) mootz from the deli (e.g. Wisconsin or Boar's Head) cut not too thin and not too thick -- the thickness of precut deli slices
4. Any good hard cheese like Parm or Romano to taste
5. Light touch with some oregano (pinch it to revive it)
Method:
Middle rack steel, stone, or half sheet pan
4-5'ish min at (preheated) 425-450 (depending on oven, heat source location and baking surface)
Make sure when you sauce and cheese it you put down sauce 1st to the edge so the edge won't burn. The deli mootz will spread and steam and look like grated at the end (pock-marked like the real thing). Leave some space between slices of cheese. Put the oregano (can alternatively use marjoram -- can leave out oregano if already in sauce) and hard cheese on before the mootz.
You'll end up with something so much better than it has any right to be and on the short list of best pizzas I've had... no joke... uber thin and crispy, and impossibly easy to make.
As I learned how to cook from scratch my favourite pizza, I manage to be able to eat -a lot of pizza lol- every other weekend and stay in shape, maintaining my ideal weight, reaching my daily protein intake no problem, and even more when I have a high intensity week ahead... pizza it's just amazing how versatile it is and how easy is to fit it into a nutritional program, and I'm very strict with my food intake.
My secret is giving the dough at least 12 hours of fermentation, or 24 if you can so you can make it really thin, that way you eat less carbs. Then choose high protein toppings like meat or chicken. Use an italian passata as sauce, wich is pure tomato (very low calorie) and then going easy on the cheese, wich is hard but can be done 🤣if you can find a low fat cheese, even better. That way you can have a nice traditional pizza without the extra calories.
Watching you bite into food is one of the most satisfying things on UA-cam.
Thank you for the ideas. Technique 2 if you had lamb meatballs would be even more awesome with some mint sauce added to the yoghurt.
Thank you for showing a pizza base that ISN'T made with cauliflower/broccoli rice! I do like them, I'll admit, but they're a pain in the ass to make from scratch, and I can't find anywhere that sells them as a product without them undoing all the good low-calorie work with a load of high-fat, high-sugar toppings. I'd probably do the base with half wholemeal flour instead of the keto flour, to try and up the fibre content... I guess that would work too?
Think of all the flavour and spices trapped in that moustache
I love whole grain English muffin pizzas. I use low fat cheese with lots of veggies and turkey pepperoni. Super easy and tasty.
AMAZING DUDE! THANKS 4 THE IDEAS 😍
I make what I call pizza de gallo for my pizza toping its equal parts fine diced Roma tomato, red onion, yellow and red bell pepper, stir in some sea salt, crushed red pepper, fresh smashed garlic clove, dry basil, oregano, EVOO, parmesan cheese. combine in a bowl and let sit for at least one hour in the fridge, then I top my pizza in this order with tomato sauce sliced mushrooms, pizza de gallo, grated string cheese, sliced pickled garlic stuffed green olives, and your protein of choice I like smoked turkey. I will typically do this to a frozen cheese pizza or just use tortillas but mostly I use frozen sour dough bread lightly brushed with garlic infused EVOO on the bottom to crisp it up assembled in a cold cast Iron skillet then cook in the oven pre heated @400f for 20 minutes.
Love the content. This video was right on time for me, I was actually planning on making my own dough and NY style with a stone, so this is perfect. I lost 100 lbs about 14 years ago, but I have been Intermittent fasting since 2009, so making my own large pizzas for dinner sounds like a perfect plan 👍
That higher protein pizza at the end looks fantastic. The first two I was kind of iffy on, especially the second one which I wouldn't even consider pizza, but that third recipe, now THAT is real pizza only healthier and which a much more favorable macro balance. Great job Ethan!
Same but damn that second one did look good!
@@metalliholic Yeah not saying it didn't look good just that I would not call it pizza even a little bit. It depends on how one defines pizza, for some people they might say that it's any kind of flatbread that you put shit on top of, but for me, no.
I use Joseph's lavash bread to make a flatbread "pizza" almost every weekend. You can make two huge flatbreads for maybe 600 calories. Really makes dieting easier.
that bread is full of crap that will destroy your digestive system, your intestines don't like soluble corn fiber and soybean oil. But I guess. that's what dieting is now, just put fake food in your body so it goes right through you.
@@kenm2709 It’s literally just a really thin flatbread. No different than any other bread. It’s just flour, water, and oil. I hate how people like you make up dumb shit and falsely criticize everything.
Big fan of doing cauliflower crusts for pizza instead of dough as a healthier alternative. Seen them in some supermarkets which makes it way easier to do that than making some dough from scratch.
OMG one slice of NY pizza is the size of a full large pizza in the UK
I wholeheartedly agree about finding healthier alternatives to foods you already enjoy, been doing that and have lost 60lbs, it's the ONLY thing that's worked for me.
I havent even watched the video but in the past week I've been making pizzas from scratch (never made before) and since early January ive been eating more consciously and have kept off nearly 14lbs.... I don't think I've gained any weight since my recent pizza making fad hahaha
OMG, this come at a time when I really wanted to eat healthy pizza. Thank you so much for the recipe. I cannot wait to see you get one million subscribers. You deserve all the love.
Unpopular opinion: pizza with a conservative amount of cheese is much better than pizza with a lot of cheese
The leftover pizza sandwich is a phenomenal idea!
Say all you want about 2011 Ethan, but he definitely seems like the guy who knows how to lift your spirits after a bad day ❤
Thanks, Ethan. Trying to eat healthier. You always deliver. Sending love from South Africa 🇿🇦
A practice in my family, is to take the pizza slice and SMACK it upsidedown on the empty side if the pizza box to remove excess oil. We used to just use tissue until my sister figured this out.
I've made the pita pizza many times before. I would suggest opening the pita and sliding a few slices of cheese in there for an added layer of yum!
In germany we usually use Speltflour for Highprotein Pizza. Mine usually has 11 G of Protein per 100 g so at 150 G that would be around 16 G Protein. Just in case someone doesnt want to use Ketoflour
pita pizza is a cheat code. I use hummus and bbq for the base and top the pizza off with 2 big handfuls of lettuce and low fat mayo+mustard+siracha. TOO DAMN GOOD
I make a tortilla pizza with carb balance tortillas. They're high in fiber, but they don't particularly taste good (kinda taste like nothing, really, which is fine if you top it with bold flavors). They're also easy to burn, but with some practice they can be crisped up on a cast iron skillet fairly easily. Top with pizza toppings and throw it in an air fryer (if your can handle a 10" tortilla) or under the broiler (in the same cast iron you crisped it up in) and you got yourself a passable enough pizza to scratch that itch, plus some bonus fiber/protein to keep you full!
I LOVE the number of pizza recipes you have
So far, I have been making 80 /20 cheeseburgers and been able to lose weight without sacrificing what I enjoy eating. Now I am considering an alternative to eating pizza as opposed to avoiding it.
For those of us not in the US, instead of trying to find some rare keto flour online and pay 3x the price in shipping, just stick to tipo 00 for the dough and use lower fat higher protein cheese and add some lean meat as toppings.
Oh man. This puts a smile on my face
if you really want to scratch that "eat a whole pizza" itch, i recommend working intermittent fasting or time-restricted eating into your diet. i have pizza once a week (with homemade low-carb cauliflower crust, homemade marinara, beldi dry cured olives, bacon, sautéed mushrooms, pepperoni and 6 oz of fresh mozzarella). it's about 1500-1600 calories, but it's all i eat for the day. eating just once in a day takes some getting used to, but for me at least it's easier to have one meal "scratches" whatever itch i have than to try to have 2 800 calorie meals or 3 500 calorie meals or whatever
I never realized how good in shape he is! Please do more healthy recipes your recipes always taste amazing
I succeeded in going from 320lbs down to 200lbs because I never got rid of any food all the time. Instead I went the cheat meal route, where once a week for a single meal I treated myself to one of my favorite foods or something I've been craving that didn't fit into the meal plan for the week. It was enough for me, since leading up to this I shrank my portion sizes little by little before switching to a healthier menu.
Pita pizza is a big fav from the channel, along with the suburban mum enchiladas and of course the smash burger.
Related topic to pita - use a tortilla for even less carbs. I just go tomato sauce, mozzarella, and red onions myself. Put it on a cookie sheet for like 12 mins or so. I think I got this from Jacque Pepin.