Dairy-Free Pizza with Hummus and Roasted Butternut Squash

Layer hummus on raw pizza dough, top with tomato sauce and partly cooked butternut squash, and bake for a low-fat, fully satisfying meal. Serve this plant-strong pizza at your Super Bowl party. I bet no one will ask "where's the cheese?" See tips below for other toppings.

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Apple-Raisin Pockets

Looking for a baked fruit dessert without butter, lots of sugar, or artificial ingredients? Try this recipe for Apple-Raisin Pockets. Just wrap the appealing, apple-pie-like filling with a low-fat dough.

Use the dairy-free, slightly sweet dough below. For a more sophisticated flavor combination that is also vegan, use the Whisk Pizza Dough or Speedy Grilled Pizza Dough from Wildly Affordable Organic. Whisk Pizza Dough does not require a bread machine or kneading, but does rest at least one night in the refrigerator.

Make-ahead or small-family tip: I like to make all the dough at once, then roll out and bake three batches of Apple-Raisin Pockets over a two-week period, using fresh apples each time. This makes the active time of the first batch only 40 minutes and the active time for the other two batches about 30 minutes each.

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No-Fuss Pizza Sauce

No-Fuss Pizza Sauce makes organic pizza sauce easy and affordable. Mix it right in the can: no dishes or cooking needed. Use local garlic and oregano i f you can. As with all scratch-made recipes, go as organic or local as you like, ingredient by ingredient.

Use this sauce on pizza, pizza toast (see notes), or as a sauce on Curried Chickpeas with Sweet Potatoes (recipe coming next week).

Active time: 3 minutes. Total time: 3 minutes. Makes enough for 3 large pizzas.

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