This is no joke. I hate cauliflower. I love this pizza!
This is a diabetic pizza dream. There are so few carbohydrates in this pizza crust, it is almost sinful.
You can eat as much as you want. We will break down the carb count at the end of the post if you want more information.
Let's get started on this pizza recipe. I have seen a lot of cauliflower pizza crust recipes floating around in cyber space. I took some information from a few different sites. If you are interested in checking them out here they are:
First go out and get a large head of cauliflower. Chop up the florets into small pieces that will easily fit into your food processor. You can chop your cauliflower up by hand if you wish.
You are going to want your final product to be about the same size as a grain of rice. As you can see this looks like a bowl of white rice below.
Now we get to the other ingredients. I will list them here.
INGREDIENTS:
1 head of cauliflower
1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese
2 eggs
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
salt to taste
Add all ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix by hand. I literally mixed and mushed with my fingers. You want to incorporate all the wet ingredients into the cauliflower. Now if you are anything like me at this point you are thinking that this recipe will never work and that you are just waisting your time. Never fear this will come together.
I have found over the years that aesthetics work wonders. My kids will try any new food if it looks good. I am trying to get this crust to look as close to a regular pizza dough as possible. After many failed attempts at making round crusts I came up with this brilliant idea.
For the mini pizzas I used a large round cookie cutter or english muffin baking ring. For the large crust I used a spring-form cake pan without the bottom inside. Follow the pictures below to see how to make a perfectly round crust!
Now you are going to bake this crust at 350* for about 20 minutes, or until slightly brown around the edges. You are then going to flip the crust and bake the bottom up for around ten minutes.
As you can see the crust is coming together, it doesn't break and holds it's shape! Don't let these pictures fool you though, the crusts do stick to the parchment paper and have to be eased off the pan by going gently around the sides. I used a large crepe spatula to flip the large pizza crust, or just turned the parchment paper upside down onto another pan and peeled the paper off.
Once the crust are nice and golden brown on both sides you take the pizzas out and add a thin layer of pizza sauce and a small amount of cheese. Then pop it back into the oven and watch it until the cheese is nicely melted and slightly browned. Then they are done!
AMAZING right?
So now we get to the carbohydrate count. I made two large pizzas and six small pizzas out of one head of cauliflower. One large head of cauliflower has about 44g of carbs in it. There is about 25g of fiber so you can decrease the carb count to 20g. This is virtually a carb free pizza! The sugars are going to hit you so much slower.
| Here is some in-depth information on the nutrition in cauliflower whfoods.com | |||||