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📋 Healthy Big Mac Pizza Recipe

This Big Mac Pizza recipe is a healthier version of a typical Big Mac pizza, but it's still like eating a Mcdonald's Big Mac in pizza form. Made with a copycat special sauce, extra lean ground beef, lighter ingredients, 2 ingredient ww friendly dough, and fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and pickles, this Big Mac Pizza will leave you begging for more! The best part is no one will suspect it's good for you! 
Course dinner, lunch, Snack
Cuisine American, Canadian, North American
Keyword big mac, healthy, pizza
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 12 slices
Calories 271kcal
Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

Pizza Sauce

  • 1 cup light (low-fat) mayonnaise * I use Hellman's ½ the fat mayonnaise
  • ½ cup light Catalina dressing *I use Kraft or light French dressing can be substituted
  • 4 tablespoon sweet relish
  • 4 tablespoon ketchup
  • 2 teaspoon white vinegar
  • ½ teaspoon onion powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Toppings

  • 3 pickles, chopped *I use dill pickles
  • 1 whole onion
  • 1 lb extra lean ground beef
  • 3 cups low-fat sharp cheddar cheese

Garnish:

  • 1 ½ cups iceberg lettuce or romaine lettuce chopped
  • 2 whole tomatoes chopped
  • 1 ½ tablespoon sesame seeds
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Instructions

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  • Prep: Preheat oven to 400°F. Spray a 14 inch pizza pan with non- stick cooking spray. .
  • Brown ground beef with half the chopped onion, in a large skillet, on stovetop, over medium-high heat until cooked through.
    ground beef cooked with onion in skillet
  • Prepare pizza dough
    15 minute pizza dough rolled out onto pan

Pizza sauce:

  • Combine Big Mac pizza sauce ingredients: Catalina salad dressing, mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, onion powder, salt and vinegar in a small bowl
    Pizza sauce ingredients in a medium glass bowl, with a spatula
  • Spread ¾ of the pizza sauce on pizza dough and set aside the remaining sauce for garnish.
    big mac pizza sauce spread on pizza dough
  • Spread meat mixture evenly over pizza sauce.
    ground beef spread over pizza sauce
  • Add half the pickles to the ground beef
    big mac pizza with sauce, cooked ground beef with onion and half the chopped pickles
  • Sprinkle on the cheddar cheese
    uncooked big mac pizza with shredded cheese added on top of sauce, ground beef and pickles
  • Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until crust is lightly browned and cooked through. Optional : (if it's not yet browned enough for you)
    Turn oven to broil (500 degrees F) and cook for 2 minutes or until pizza browns and is bubbly. You need to watch it very closely
    cooked big mac pizza

Garnish

  • Once out of oven, add lettuce, the remaining raw onion and pickles, tomatoes, and sesame seeds. Drizzle on remaining sauce and/or reserve some to serve with pizza.
    lettuce tomatoes, onions, pickles and sesame seeds added to big mac pizza

Notes

*Please see post contents for important recipe information and tips!
Nutrition Facts
📋 Healthy Big Mac Pizza Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 slice)
Calories 271 Calories from Fat 99
% Daily Value*
Fat 11g17%
Saturated Fat 3g19%
Trans Fat 0.1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3g
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
Cholesterol 34mg11%
Sodium 626mg27%
Potassium 299mg9%
Carbohydrates 22g7%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 8g9%
Protein 20g40%
Vitamin A 412IU8%
Vitamin C 4mg5%
Calcium 166mg17%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 271kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 626mg | Potassium: 299mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 412IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 166mg | Iron: 1mg