Sweet pizza with watermelon is the perfect dessert in summer. This melon pizza recipe is full of vitamins and super delicious. Try it yourself!
On hot summer days there is nothing better than a refreshing watermelon. No matter whether pure, as Watermelon sorbet, melon salad with feta or something fancier: Watermelon from the grill.
But this is far from exhausting the variety of recipes. Melon can be transformed into countless delicious recipes. One in particular I would like to introduce you today: Watermelon Pizza!
There are many delicious recipes for sweet pizza. Most of them are real calorie bombs. They come with cake dough, puff pastry, sugar, butter, yeast and so on. In addition, there's also a chocolate cream topping.
But a sweet snack can also turn out very healthy. The best proof of this is melon pizza. This recipe not only lets you prepare it very easily, it's healthy and comes without extra calories.
Pure fruit with a little yogurt. And you're much more likely to reach for it than for normal pieces of melon.
And the melon pizza is guaranteed to be the absolute highlight of any garden party. The pizza is also a healthy dessert for children's birthday parties. It's so easy to get the little ones to eat fruit and trick them a bit with the summer pizza.
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Melon fan? Try this watermelon feta salad!
What ingredients do I need for melon pizza?
A cheer for the melon pizza! It not only looks great, it tastes pleasantly sweet and comes without sugar. Which ingredients you should already provide, I'll tell you now.
Watermelon
The basis is a ripe watermelon - ideally without seeds.
For a really tasty watermelon pizza, be sure to use a sweet and ripe fruit. Knock on the melon before buying it. Really good and ripe fruit sounds dull and has a full sound. If the melon is not really ripe, then it sounds hollow and quiet.
Who wants can of course also Watermelons themselves on the balcony grow! This works out wonderfully, if you pay attention to a few little things.
Snacking on the melon pizza, you take a lot of important vitamins. Thanks to the watermelon also on hot days much needed liquid. But it is also a good source of vitamin C, strengthens the immune system and provides healthy skin. The high potassium content can even help lower blood pressure.
Yogurt
What would a pizza be without tomato sauce and cheese? I replace both with the watermelon pizza with yogurt. You can use classic natural yogurt. However, Greek yogurt is even more practical. It is creamier and therefore does not run off the pizza.
Especially when cutting the melon pizza, it can happen that the juice of the melon and the classic yogurt combine with each other and become even more liquid. This does not happen with Greek yogurt.
In terms of taste, however, it makes no difference which yogurt you use.
If you like, you can stir a little strawberry jam into the yogurt to color it. If regular yogurt is not sweet enough for you, stir in a little honey.
Fruits
Just like the original pizza, you can customize the toppings on its little sister to suit your taste. You can use pretty much any fruit you like. For the eye, it's nice to combine ingredients of different colors.
Mint or lemon balm serve as a substitute for basil - you should definitely not do without this green splash of color.
This recipe is
- vegan and lactose-free (if you use vegan yogurt)
- gluten free
- free from table sugar
- a healthy and creative summer dessert
- a great way to utilize fruit
- a creative way to eat watermelon
Do I have to cut the melon into pieces or not?
If you want, you can cut the watermelon pizza into pieces or just leave it in one piece and slice it at the table. In favor of cutting it ahead of time is that it is easier to top and that it is simply easier to cut the pizza on a board than later on the beautiful pizza plate.
If you cut pieces of pizza, you can put a different topping on each piece. The yogurt is nicer to divide into individual pieces, but easier on the whole pizza. The melon pizza can be transported and carried to the table in one piece. If you're invited to a party, I recommend taking the individual ingredients, cutting off the melon slice and topping the pizza on the spot.
What speaks especially for this healthy dessert is the preparation. Compared to baking a cake, you save an insane amount of work. You can prepare everything and then topping the pizza fresh.
Your friends and guests will make eyes - that much is already clear 🙂.
Recipe: Melon pizza with fresh fruit
Are you ready for the healthiest summer dessert of the summer? Then let's get right to it. Here you'll find very detailed step-by-step instructions with very specific directions. If you're just looking for inspiration, you'll find a quick version of the recipe at the end of the post.
Ingredients:
- 1 watermelon
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup raspberries and blackberries
- 1 nectarine
- 1 sprig of mint or lemon balm
Also: board and knife, spoon
Preparation:
Cut a 3 to 4 centimeter thick slice from the watermelon. It is best to choose an oval melon for this, it is easier to cut. Halve the melon, place it with the cut side down and now cut off a slice horizontally - this way the risk of slipping and the melon landing on the ground is the lowest.
Set the remaining melon aside. Dab the top of the melon slice with kitchen paper to help the yogurt stick to the surface.
If you like, you can now cut the melon into pizza pieces. I have left them whole.
Stir the yogurt in the cup with the spoon until it is nice and smooth. Apply the yogurt with a tablespoon.
Wash the fruit and cut it into small pieces. Cut blackberries and raspberries in half so that they can be better placed on the melon. Cut the nectarine into thin strips or small cubes.
Pluck the leaves from the mint.
Top the watermelon pizza with the fruit and finally place the mint on the melon.
Serve immediately and enjoy cold. Yummy! The pizza with melon can be eaten without cutlery, just like the great original. And all who want to surprise their guests, serve the watermelon pizza in a pizza box 😊
What should I top the watermelon pizza with?
To make it a real eye-catcher, you should choose colorful fruits. Mix them well. The more varied the more beautiful.
Red and purple fruit that looks good on the pizza melon
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Grapes (as a substitute for olives)
- Cherries
- Currants
- Pomegranate seeds
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
Green and white fruit for the melon pizza
- Kiwi
- Green apple
- Banana
- Lime
- Pear
- Sugar melon
Yellow and orange fruits
- Honeydew melon
- Nectarine
- Peach
- Mirabelle
- Mango
- Apricot
- Plums
- Orange
- Papaya
Sour and bitter are also welcome - the melon pizza is already sweet enough thanks to watermelon.
Toppings for the watermelon dessert
Fancy a little "parmesan" or "chili oil"? You can also do this in the sweet version. Instead of Parmesan you take coconut flakes or grated coconut.
And, of course, no real chili oil comes on the sweet dessert. But honey and Agave syrup* look very similar, at least at first glance. Dried flowers make an equally good substitute for pizza seasoning.
Instead of yogurt, you can use almond paste. And of course chocolate spread in all variations. Or how about a scoop of vanilla ice cream?
If you like a bit of bite, add chopped nuts to the melon pizza - pine nuts, almonds and hazelnuts are particularly tasty here. Alternatively, cornflakes also do the trick.
If you like, you can add a savory topping to the pizza. Here taste especially feta, olive and mint very good - similar to a classic melon salad.
What do I do with the rest of the melon?
Buying a whole melon just to cut a nice piece out of the middle is obviously not the point. There are still countless ways to make something delicious out of the leftovers from the pizza.
Of course, you can always store the melon in the refrigerator for a few days. 5 days is no problem at all if you cover it with a foil. Otherwise, due to its high water content, it quickly takes on the typical refrigerator odors.
Melon tastes very good in salads or you can also prepare smoothies from it. If you have some time, you can prepare a delicious sorbet from it - for adults also mixed with a little sparkling wine. Pureed watermelon can also be preserved in ice cube molds and stirred into fruity punch.
So, as promised, here is the abridged version of the recipe with nutritional information per serving.
Melon pizza recipe with fruit
Ingredients
- 1 Slice Watermelon
- ½ Mug Greek yogurt
- ½ Cup Raspberries and blackberries
- 1 Nectarine or mango
- 1 Branch Mint or lemon balm
Equipment
- Board and knife
- Spoon
Anleitung
- Cut a continuous 2-4 centimeter thick slice from the watermelon.
- Dab the top of the melon with a paper towel or the yogurt will run off.
- For the "tomato sauce" you take yogurt. Spread it best with a teaspoon.
- Now it's getting colorful! Go wild. On our sweet pizza you'll find nectarine, raspberries, blackberries and lemon balm. And for a sweet finish, a little honey.
Nährwerte
Our conclusion
No matter which topping you choose: A melon pizza recipe always tastes deliciously fruity. Even after an extensive barbecue celebration is still enough room in the belly for a little fruit. :)
Good luck and enjoy it!
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