Salad Pizza: It’s what’s for dinner

You’re trying to be good and eat healthy but you really, really want something more interesting than those greens you’ve been nibbling on.

How about a salad pizza?

In a nod to compromise — though many will claim it’s no compromise at all, just deliciousness — the salad pizza has come onto the scene the past few years. It’s probably not all that healthy, but it does allow you to say you ate your greens.

And no, this is not pizza with a side salad. It’s salad pizza.

Salad pizzas are exactly what they sound like: you start with a thin crust, often flatbread, and add toppings. Many people start off with sauce and cheese and then add any number of other ingredients like pepperoni, salami, cheese, the works.

Others add their salad fixins to the uber-popular cauliflower crust, and many simply toss a salad and load it straight onto the pizza crust, sans sauce and cheese. Balsamic vinegar, Italian dressing and the like make for yummy variations.

Like traditional pizza (or salad) itself, the possibilities are endless. A chicken caesar pizza sounds divine and requires a fork and a knife, while an arugula and fig variation can be accomplished on the above-mentioned flatbread and eaten with your hands.