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Stuffed Sausage Pizza Rustica

4 Servings

Estimated POINTS® value per serving 10

Course Main Meals

Ingredients

• 1 loaf French bread (with the insides hollowed out)
• 10 oz chicken sausage, raw
• 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 2 large cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 package frozen chopped spinach defrosted and squeezed dry
• Salt and pepper
• 1 1/2 cups fat free ricotta
• 4 Tbsp grated Parmesan
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 2 cups Kraft 2% Italian Three Cheese Blend
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Split bread lengthwise and hollow it out. Cut in half across, making 4 shells for pizzas.
3. Heat a skillet over medium high flame and brown sausage. Brown and crumble sausage. Add red bell pepper, onion and garlic. Cook 3 to 5 minutes, add spinach. Remove mixture from heat and season with a pinch of salt and black pepper, to your taste. Transfer to a bowl. Combine sausage and veggies with ricotta, and Parmesan.
4. Fill bread shells and top with mounded mozzarella and provolone cheeses. Place in hot oven on cookie sheet and bake until cheese melts and bubbles and bread is super crisp, about 10 to 12 minutes. Top pizzas with oregano and hot pepper flakes.

This is a Weight Watchers adaptation of a Rachael Ray recipe. It was SO SO SO SO good. I loved it. Mike the constant critic didn't like the texture. He said he would rather of substituted brocolli for the spinach. He also said that the onions and peppers need to be cooked before they go in with the sausage. (Take this with a grain of salt, because onions have to be practically burnt for him not to complain. I'll save a seperate post for the extensive list of what Mike will or won't eat (and he has the balls to call me a picky eater)). Its also really good the next day as I had leftovers for lunch.

The good points:
1) The cheese (being 2%) doesn't taste rubbery or fake. I didn't tell Mike I was using 2% cheese or FF ricotta and he couldn't tell the difference.
2) SAUSAGE!
3) You can stuff A LOT of veggies in this pizza. Next time, I'm thinking mushrooms and fresh tomatos along with the onions, peppers, and spinach. Oh yeah, and a "special one" for Mike with brocolli.