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I got the idea for this recipe for Black Bean Pizza after I had been to my friend Heather’s house. She was pulling together lunch and asked me if I wanted to try the new pizza she got on sale. It was the Kashi Mexicali Black Bean pizza. I thought it sounded weird, but I wanted to try it. I LOVED it!
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Here is my version, I couldn’t remember what was on it, and just made it up as I went along. Well, it was a hit, my husband loved it and it will now be a regular in our house. As you know, I love Frank’s Hot sauce, so of course that was in the bean puree and on the pizza.
1. Combine black beans, salsa and hot sauce (optional) into a food processor and blend until a puree. If it is too thick, add more salsa until it blends well. Add more hot sauce if it doesn’t taste spicy enough!
2. Saute or roast veggies you will be topping with. I just sauteed some onion slices and sliced frozen red peppers I had in the freezer, over the stove top to soften them up first.
3. Spread half of bean puree on each pizza crust, like you would tomato sauce for a regular pizza. (Or freeze the other half for later!)
4. Top with chicken, roasted veggies and cheese. For a vegetarian option, skip the chicken and pile on more veggies!
5. Cook in a 400 degree oven for 12-15 minutes. Slice and eat. (I garnish mine with hot sauce too.)
- 2 whole wheat pizza crusts, homemade or store bought
- 1 can black beans, drained
- ⅓ cup salsa
- 2-4 Tbs. hot sauce (i.e. – Franks or Texas Pete)
- Any roasted veggies. Try onions, red peppers, corn, mushrooms--your favorites!
- ¾ cup diced or shredded cooked chicken (optional)
- ¾ cup shredded cheese, any kind (Monterrey jack, cheddar, or mozzarella)
- Combine black beans, salsa and hot sauce (optional) into a food processor and blend until a puree. If it is too thick, add more salsa until it blends well. Add more hot sauce if it doesn’t taste spicy enough!
- Saute or roast veggies you will be topping with.
- Spread half of bean puree on each pizza crust, like you would tomato sauce for a regular pizza.
- Top with chicken (optional), roasted veggies and cheese.
- Cook in a 400 degree oven for 12-15 minutes. Slice and eat. I garnish mine with hot sauce too.
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I had this last night and it was great!
Love that you’re a hot sauce fan! I am a firm believer in everything needin’ a little kick.
Enjoying your blog & suggestions. It was good to see you last week (ever so briefly!) Ms Kristin (aka The Library Lady)
This looks great. I gave you a thumbs up on Stumble Upon.
Since you like hot sauce, a twist on this is to make buffalo chicken pizza.
I use chicken that I’ve boiled and shredded and toss it with a little buffalo wing sauce (I love the Franks brand). Take a pizza crust and spread a thin layer of buffalo wing sauce on it, top with the chicken, and cheese of choice (I prefer the skim-milk mozzarella). Bake and enjoy with ranch or blue cheese dressing if preferred. You can always add veggies on top or serve with celery.
It’s my favorite way to get one of my favorites (buffalo chicken strips or wings) without all of the fat from frying.
Kelly,
This sounds great. It reminds me of a pizza I had while in Mazatlan Mexico last summer at El RIN RIN (which is Spanish for DING DONG), it was a Pizza place much like our Pizza Hut. They had a Mexican Pizza there with beans as their base, Chorizo, Jalapenos and cheese and was served with a strange sauce on the side. Took me a while to figure out what it was. It was mayo and ketchup. It really complimented the pizza.
Feedback on your website, you have such great recipes that I would really love some sort of search bar to find past recipes.
Corine,
All past recipes are under the “Recipe” or “cooking 101” categories.
I love black beans. Thanks for this idea!
This recipe looks delish! Love it Kelly! Going to try this one out this weekend!
Bri – I had a feeling you might like this, I need to get the black beans out again and make your Southwest Black Bean Burgers!
Franks is my most very favorite hot sauce too girls! For my buffalo chicken pizza I combine abt 1/4 cup of melted yogurt butter (or any kind of butter I have on hand) with 2/3 cup of Franks. Then I add chopped or pulled chicken, dump it all on the pizza crust and top with cheese. Not quite as healthy as Jessica’s version but that little bit of butter really helps! Kelly, this black bean version looks great. Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to try it!
ooh, I’ll have to try that recipe Katie. As much as I like it I will LOVE this one! What type of cheese do you use, cheddar, monterey jack or mozzarella?
I found you through Bargain Briana’s website. This pizza looks so good! I’m going to have to give it a try and see what my family thinks. Thanks for sharing
Best Wishes!
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I make this but I do it on large tortillas.It takes half the time and sometimes I stack them and do a brown off under the broiler.to get the cheese super melty.