Sweet Potato Kale Pizza

I was at the gym Thursday night flipping through a mag on the treadmill when I came across this page with a sweet potato kale pizza recipe on it. Well.. I love sweet potatoes..I eat kale at least every other day..I always have feta in the fridge for salad..and I just bought flat/pita bread - I'm SO making this.

I may or may not have ripped the page out of the gym magazine and stuffed it in my bag.

 

It was easy enough, to make- first here are the Ingredients

• 1 Medium sweet potato
• 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil  
• Crushed red pepper flakes
• Pizza dough (or like me I used a whole pita pocket, can also find flatbread)
• Kale (about a handful)
• Goat Cheese (I used Feta, I'm sure blue cheese would work too)
• Sliced Almonds

The recipe calls for shredded parmesan and crushed walnuts, I skipped the extra parm because I already had a lot of feta- and calories were adding up- but I did use 1 tbsp. of sliced almonds I had in my cupboard I keep for salads

 

I diced up the sweet potatoes as good as I could and boiled them in water until soft enough (I'm sure you can microwave too- then let them cool for about 5 or so minutes- poured potatoes into my blender bullet adding 3/4 tbsp. olive oil with crushed red peppers and a dash of sea salt - and blended until smooth.  I'm sure you really don't need to blend it- if the potatoes are soft enough you'd be able to mash it yourself, I'm sure I'll do that next time to save some cleaning.

 

 

(don't forget to set oven to bake at 425 while doing this)

 

Peeled apart some kale pieces- poured the remaining 1/4 tbsp. of olive oil on them- then added sea salt.

 

Spread the blended potato/oil/pepper mix onto your bread of choice (again, I used a whole pita) ..top with kale, top with feta then sprinkle with almonds.

 

 

And. bake for about 10-15 minutes, I'm always bad at timing things- I just kept an eye on it and took it out when it looked good and the kale was crisp.

 



And there you go! It was really good, I was pleasantly surprised as.. it's sweet potato kale pizza, something I never would have thought twice about wanting to eat a year, or maybe even couple months ago. I will definitely make again. It came to 547 calories, so I had to lighten up my dinner in order to fit this into my daily! The Pita worked well too- I was a little worried it wouldn't bake very good- but it was just dandy! The pita was 200 cals it self, so I may look for a lower cal alternative if I can find something next time!