Ever since I stopped eating gluten, the food I miss the most is pizza. In my opinion, pizza is the best food ever invented. I am a huge fan of sauce and cheese, but I was always a crust kinda girl. Weird? Yea probably, but I always loved eating pizza with people who would leave the crust. I would steal every bit, every time, without fail.
The challenge today, is creating a dairy free pizza crust that is satisfying. I wasn’t born yesterday… I know that no “healthy” pizza crust will ever be the same as the one from my favorite neighborhood pizza joint. That doesn’t mean that I can’t find some sort of acceptable substitution!
Cauliflower pizza crust is blowing up the internet. There are millions of recipes boasting the best cauliflower pizza crust. Most of these recipes have cheese… LOTS of cheese. My challenge was to create a cheese-less pizza crust, that still had great texture, flavor, and taste! I did it….
*no your eyes are not deceiving you, there are two different pizzas photographed. I initially made one yesterday, but lost the light while I was photographing… (blogger problems). I was FORCED to make it again today, and decided to use different toppings!
- 2 cups riced cauliflower (about ½ head cauliflower)
- 1 TBS chia + 2 chia eggs (see Note)*
- ¼ cup quinoa flour (or flour of choice)
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp fennel
- ½ tsp basil
- ½ tsp parsley
- 1 TBS nutritional yeast
- Pre-head oven to 450 degrees
- Create 2 chia eggs and allow to form in the fridge
- Break cauliflower into florets
- Lightly blend until you get a “rice like” consistency- (makes about 2 cups)
- Using a cheese cloth or a dish towel, squeeze excess water from cauliflower
- Transfer to a bowl and combine remaining ingredients
- Once your chia eggs are done, add and mix completely
- On a sprayed baking sheet, spread out "dough" and form your desired pizza shape
- Bake for about 20-25 minutes (the edges will have turned brown)
- Remove from oven and add your favorite sauce and toppings
- Put back in the oven for about 8-10 minutes.
- ENJOY!
PLUS an additional TBS chia seeds simply added to the dough
If you follow weight watchers, an entire pizza is 6 points
This is definitely a large pizza, but if you want to eat the whole thing by yourself, go for it! If you want to share (I don’t) that’s really nice of you.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
xoxoSYN
is this recipe one tbsp chia seed PLUS one tbsp chia seeds with 3 tbsp water? it’s a bit confusing.
View CommentI’m so sorry! It’s two chia “eggs”- 2 TBS chia seeds mixed with 6 TBS water and put in the fridge to set. PLUS one additional TBS chia seeds simply added to the dough. Does that make sense? Thanks for bringing this to my attention.. I’ll fix it on the recipe
View CommentThis looks really yumm!
View Commentthanks so much!!! I think it’s pretty darn tasty
View CommentThis looks amazing! In need of some new recipes and I’m definitely going to try this.
View CommentThanks! It’s definitely a favorite of mine
let me know how it goes!
View CommentThankyou !!!! just consumed whole thing (well, we both did!) and DELICIOUS!!! So we have our own chickens so that we can eat ‘happy’ eggs so I exchanged the chia seeds for 4 eggs. Exchanged soy sauce for the nutritional yeast since I didn’t have any of that and YUM!!! so that’s our meal for our next dinner guests sorted! Looking forward to trying the Cauliflower Risotto next! Keep ’em coming please!
View Commentwow, thank you so much! I’m so glad that you enjoyed the recipe
I always eat the entire thing… I just can’t help myself!!!! Thanks again xoxoxo!
View CommentHi this sounds so good, its in the oven cant wait. Can I use broccoli too?
View CommentOk it tasted great, but I couldn’t pick it up in my hand like in your pics. Not sure what I did!!??
View Commenthey!!! glad it tasted great
Did you cook it for long enough? Did you make the crust thick enough? It’s definitely not thick like a piece of traditional pizza. You can’t fold it. The piece I’m holding in the photo is really small.
If you want something that won’t break at all, try these Pizza bagels! http://www.cookiestokale.com/cauliflower-crust-pizza-bagels/
ps. I’m not sure if broccoli would work, i’ve never tried it, but it’s worth a shot!
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