Featured Recipes: Personal Portabella Pizza

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Baking time: 15-20 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 portabella mushroom cap, 5 inches across
• Cooking spray
• 1/4 cup pizza sauce
• 1 slice (1 ounce) lean, deli-sliced ham, finely chopped
• 2–3 fresh basil leaves, chopped
• 3 tablespoons shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F. Trim mushroom stem even with cap. Place mushroom cap (gills facing upward) in a small baking pan coated with cooking spray. Layer pizza sauce, ham, and basil in cap and sprinkle evenly with cheese. Bake for 15–20 minutes, or until mushroom is tender when pierced with a fork and cheese is melted.

Nutrition Facts

Yield: 1 pizza
Serving Size: 1 pizza

Per Serving:
  Calories: 137
  Carbohydrate: 10 g
  Protein: 13 g
  Fat: 5 g
  Saturated fat: 3 g
  Sodium: 849 mg
  Fiber: 2 g
  Exchanges per serving: 2 vegetable, 1 medium-fat meat
  Carbohydrate choices: 1

This recipe was developed by Tami Ross, a Diabetes Nutrition Specialist and Certified Diabetes Educator in Lexington, Kentucky.

Reprinted with permission from Diabetes Self-Management. © 2008 R.A. Rapaport Publishing, Inc. Visit us at DiabetesSelfManagement.com.