Calorie-Friendly Sausage Breakfast Pizza

Enough rambling! It’s time to make a Calorie-Friendly Sausage Breakfast Pizza!

Calorie-Friendly Single Serving Sausage Breakfast Pizza

INGREDIENTS

⅓ cup self-rising flour
3.5 tbsp non-fat greek yogurt
1 ounce cream cheese
1 slice American Cheese
1 egg
1.5 ounces cooked breakfast sausage
1.33 oz mozzarella cheese, shredded
0.75 ounces of cheddar, shredded
Lowry’s seasoning salt to taste

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 425°F
Mix together flour and yogurt in a bowl with a fork.
Once mixed, knead until a dough forms, around 10 times.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silpat mat.
Roll dough out onto lined cookie sheet into a square or circle with a pastry roller. Set aside.
Scramble egg, sprinkle with Lawry’s seasoning salt, and cook in a greased pan until almost set. When it is slightly undercooked, remove it from the pan.
Place cream cheese and American cheese in a bowl and smash them together with a fork. The mixture will be lumpy.
Pre-bake crust for 4 minutes.
Remove the crust from the oven, and spread the cream cheese mixture onto the hot crust.
Place the pizza back in the oven for about 20-30 seconds to melt the cheese mixture even more.
Remove from the oven and spread the melted cheese sauce evenly over the crust.
Top cheese sauce evenly with eggs and sausage.
Top with shredded cheddar and mozzarella
Bake for 5 minutes.
Broil for 30 seconds to brown the cheese and make it nice and bubbly (optional).
Remove from the oven, place onto a cutting board.
Let cool for 2 minutes. Cut into slices, and enjoy!

NOTES:

Don’t have self-rising flour? No problem! Make your own with this simple recipe.

This pizza is hearty and satisfying. There around 41g protein and 668 calories per pizza. You can easily reduce the calories by swapping for light or non-fat ingredients.

Feel free to replace the sausage with one slice of bacon. It’ll reduce the calories by 30 or more depending on the type of bacon you use. Feeling carnivorous and have the calories to spare? Use both!

Nothing Worth Having comes Easy

I’m not gonna lie, this pizza is a bit of work. Between preparing the crust, browning the sausage, cooking the egg, and making the sauce, you’ve got a lot of irons in the fire, if you will.

But when it comes together, it is 100% worth it. Making this delightful homemade pizza from scratch is the perfect start to a lazy Saturday morning. The only thing better than making it is eating it!

I typically serve it for brunch and have a light lunch later in the afternoon. This helps to balance out the higher-ish calories of this delicious, protein-packed pizza with the rest of my day. Plus, brunch is fancy and high-society. Which gives my gas station inspired pizza a taste of the good life before I devour it.

About the Calories

668 calories for an entire homemade breakfast pizza may seem like a lot to some. But compared to one tiny slice of Casey’s version, my version gets you more bang for your buck.

Plus, making a single serving saves you from buying an entire Casey’s breakfast pizza. When you have a whole pizza you are dealing with the calorie bomb of eating the whole dang thing at once, or eating the whole dang thing over the course of a couple days because of leftovers.

You can actually buy a single slice from Casey’s, but I gotta say, I always feel terrible after eating it. Probably because who knows what all you’re ingesting when you eat pizza from a gas station. Amiright? You will feel better about your choices going the homemade route.

I guess you could always only eat half. **laughs hysterically** I could never do that. It’s not like I’m @squatto4moscato or anything (follow her and watch her stories to learn she can eat only one Rolo and that’s all).

If you are like Squatto and possess the willpower of steel, feel free to only eat half. That would certainly be a more reasonable amount of calories for breakfast. But most certainly way less fun.

If you absolutely must lower the calories, you could reduce the sausage to 1 ounce and the cheddar to 1/2 an ounce and I still think it’d be amazing on that size crust. You could also reduce all the ingredients and put it on a 1/4 cup flour to 2 2/3 tbsp Greek yogurt.

Calorie-Friendly Pizza for the Win

Making my own breakfast pizza satisfies my craving in one go, and I move on. This is how I have managed to lose 20 pounds and keep it off. I have learned to satisfy my cravings, while continuing to move forward. That skill is a total power play when it comes to staying consistent, on track, and within my goal calorie range.

If this pizza has piqued your interest, give it a try. Let me know what you think or post it to Instagram and tag @momgrowsup. I hope it is everything you dreamed it would be! I have no doubt in my mind that you will love it. Either way let me know, and don’t forget to pin this to Pinterest for future reference!

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Today’s pizza recipe is inspired by the infamous (because I talk about it so much) Casey’s gas station sausage breakfast pizza. All class, all the way over here.

I first tasted this pizza at a morning work meeting, and it was love at first bite. I felt alive as the cheesy sauce brushed my lips, and I wondered where this pizza had been all my life. Honestly, discovering this breakfast pizza was, hands down, the best thing that came out of my seven year teaching career. I was in love.

What’s on a Casey’s Sausage Breakfast Pizza?

Casey’s offers a variety of breakfast pizzas, but the sausage is the best one on their menu. Per the Casey’s website, “Our Sausage Breakfast Pizza starts with cheese sauce and is then topped with scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, mozzarella and cheddar cheese.”

Mmmmm, talk dirty to me, Casey’s Gas Station and General Store.

But there’s a catch.

Unfortunately, the nutrition facts are even dirtier, and not in a good way. 320 calories per slice! Which I don’t even think is accurate. I actually think it’s higher and apparently so do other people as the range it gives you on nutrition trackers can get up to 490/slice.

This wouldn’t be so devastating if the slices didn’t feel so tiny and sad in my hungry hands. Want to hear something horrifying? I used to eat 4 slices in one sitting! FOUR. That’s a whole day’s worth of calories, quickly – albeit deliciously – down the drain.

It wasn’t until I got serious about weight loss that I realized this beautiful creation meant certain diet death. So I tried, and usually failed, to live without it. Or I’d enjoy it only after falling off the weight loss wagon. Which happened often and repeatedly before I discovered I could eat the foods I love and lose weight.

The tasty solution

When I finally put two and two together, I got to work making my own knockoff Casey’s breakfast pizza. Something had to be done. Not eating yummy breakfast pizza just wasn’t an option!

I concocted my own delicious, yet calorie-conscious, copycat version. And I’ll be darned if my breakfast pizza isn’t just what the world needs right now. It’s so good I actually prefer it to the original. And that’s saying something.

The secrets of how the sausage [pizza] is made.

The cheese sauce

I got a little creative with the cheesy sauce. Instead of making a roux and adding in cheddar, I did something simpler. Because let’s be honest, making a single serving of roux is a nightmare. Been there, done that. Did not enjoy. Do not recommend. Plus, my way makes it easier to track and log the calories.

The trick to making the creamy base sauce without the hassle of a roux is combining American cheese with cream cheese. You mix them together with a fork, and the lumps melt together into a smooth sauce when you spread it on the hot pizza crust.

I gotta say, I’m super impressed with myself for figuring this out. Am I a pizza making genius? I think we all know the answer to that is a resounding yes.

The scrambled eggs

The key here is under cooking the eggs. This way they don’t get overcooked when the pizza is in the oven. And make sure to sprinkle the undercooked eggs with Lawry’s seasoning salt! It takes this pizza to the next level.

Make it work for you

This, and any, pizza can go calorie crazy pretty fast. To make this breakfast pizza, in particular, fit more comfortably within my daily calorie limit, I reduced the ingredient amounts of my usual pizza crust by ⅓. A typical crust is ½ cup flour to ⅓ cup non-fat Greek yogurt. This one is ⅓ cup flour to 4 tbsp of Greek yogurt.

You can certainly go with a larger crust if you’d like. The total amount of toppings will likely increase to cover the extra surface area, creating an overall higher calorie pizza. As a general rule, I try to keep my single serving pizzas under 700 calories. That’s what satisfies my hunger and tastes, and works best with my personal calorie goals.

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