Flatbread Pizzas With Canadian Bacon, Asparagus and Fontina Cheese

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A fewer minutes of assembly yields this tasty campaigner for a speedy luncheon oregon dinner. The archetypal look counts 1 9-inch flatbread pizza arsenic 2 servings, but we're reasoning that those portions would beryllium bully for children. A teen oregon bare big would astir apt devour 1 flatbread pizza, oregon adjacent to it.

Recipe writer Pam Anderson uses nan, an Indian flatbread, arsenic the basal for this pizza, topped with pesto and Canadian bacon. But we recovered that utilizing a whole-grain, non-Indian benignant of flatbread called Flatout greatly reduced the calories and sodium. Both kinds of flatbread are disposable astatine Giant and Safeway stores.

Serve with a greenish salad.

Adapted from "The Athlete's Palate Cookbook," by Yishane Lee and the editors of Runner's World (Rodale, 2010).

Ingredients

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Servings: 3-4

  • 8 to 10 asparagus spears
  • 1 spoon extra-virgin olive oil
  • Salt (optional)
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 2 ounces fontina cheese
  • 3 ounces Canadian bacon
  • 1/4 cupful part-skim ricotta cheese
  • 1/4 cupful homemade oregon store-bought pesto
  • Three 9-inch flatbreads, specified arsenic Flatout Healthy Grain Honey Wheat flatbread (may substitute Fabulous Flats nan; spot headnote)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 4, utilizing Flatout flatbread)

  • Calories

    280

  • Fat

    17 g

  • Saturated Fat

    5 g

  • Carbohydrates

    20 g

  • Sodium

    780 mg

  • Cholesterol

    35 mg

  • Protein

    19 g

  • Fiber

    7 g

  • Sugar

    5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Athlete's Palate Cookbook," by Yishane Lee and the editors of Runner's World (Rodale, 2010).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published May 18, 2010

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Updated March 13, 2026

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