Weight Watchers Pasta and Peas ...Pizza

Here’s a simple, but very delicious pasta dish with fresh green peas.

You can use other pasta types too, but tagliatelle pasta noodlesare recommended, as they seem to have been made for this recipe!

For some extra taste, you can use 1 cup vegetable broth instead of the water.

Makes 6 servings

Ingredients
500 g tagliatelle pasta noodles
500 g fresh peas
2 spring onions, chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon parsley, chopped
1 cup water
salt (to taste)
pecorino cheese (to taste)

Preparation
1. Place the peas in a saucepan with the salt, spring onions, olive oil, parsley and water.
2. Cook them gently for 15 minutes.
3. In the meantime,cook the tagliatelle in a separate saucepan, drain them and return them to the saucepan.
4. Add the cooked peas to the tagliatelle, making sure to include the juices.
5. Mix well and serve hot with grated pecorino cheese.

WW POINTS per serving: 9
Nutritional information per serving: 448 calories, 10.8g fat, 7.1g fiber

Weight Watchers Pizza Margherita recipe
Makes 16 slices (2 pizzas)

Ingredients

Pizza Dough
1 1/2 cups water, at 110 degrees
3/4 tablespoon fast rising yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
4 cups bread flour or unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons olive oil

Pizza Sauce
1 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup tomato paste
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon oregano
3/4 tablespoon dried basil
1 teaspoon sugar

Finish
4 ounces bocconcini, cubed (fresh mozzarella)
1 cup fresh basil, torn
2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
4 tablespoons olive oil
fresh ground black pepper

Preparation
1. Pizza Dough: Add yeast and sugar to water, whisk and set aside until foamy.
2. Add yeast mixture and oil to flour; mix and turn out onto lightly floured surface; knead 5 minutes (10 minutes if under stress or worried).
3. Place in oiled bowl, loosely covered with plastic wrap or clean towel; allow to rise in warm place until doubled in size, 45-60 minutes.
4. Divide dough in half and roll out two 12″-15″ pizza crusts.
5. Pizza Sauce: Place all ingredients in food processor and pulse 10 times.
6. Finish: Spread 1/2 cup Pizza Sauce on each pizza (reserve the remaining sauce for another use); scatter each with half the cubed boconcini, basil and grated mozzarella; drizzle with half the olive oil and add pepper.
7. Bake topped pizza at 500° for 10-12 minutes.

WW POINTS per slice: 5
Nutritional information per serving: 245 calories, 11.1g fat, 1.7g fiber