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The BEST Paleo Pizza with Cauliflower Crust!

The Best Paleo Pizza with Cauliflower Crust!

The Best Paleo Cauliflower Crust Pizza!

One of the things I miss the most about Paleo eating is PIZZA! We love pizza around here! I went on a search online to find the perfect Paleo pizza! There was one that had awesome instructions and great reviews! I tried The Best Cauliflower Pizza from The lucky Penny Blog!  We followed the instructions, but it smelled so good that we got a little impatient! I’ll post the recipe below and let you know the changes I made! **Visit www.theluckypennyblog.com for awesome step by step pictures!

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**My Changes: 

-Make sure you REALLY squeeze as much liquid out of the cauliflower as possible! 

-When you cook the crust cook it until it is almost crunchy! 

-I made my own sauce out of natural tomato paste and crushed (drained) tomatoes. The sauce was thick and this helped with keeping the pizza crust from getting soggy. 

-If you WANT cheese… she has a cheesy cauliflower crust recipe also! 

The BEST Dairy Free Cauliflower Pizza Crust

Recipe from www.theluckypennyblog.com

 

1 medium sized head of cauliflower – should yield close to 3 cups once processed
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon dried basil (crush it even more between your fingers)
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano (crust it even more between you fingers)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
optional a few shakes of crushed red pepper
2 tablespoons almond meal

1 tablespoon (or more if desired) nutritional yeast (you could also omit this entirely if you like)

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 egg

nonstick cooking oil

Place a pizza stone in the oven, or baking sheet if you don’t have a pizza stone. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. On a cutting board, place a large piece of parchment paper and spray it with nonstick cooking oil or brush the parchment with olive oil.

Wash and throughly dry a small head of cauliflower. Don’t get one the size of your head unless you are planning on making 2 pizzas. Cut off the florets, you don’t need much stem. Just stick with the florets. Pulse in your food processor for about 30 seconds, until you get powdery snow like cauliflower. See above photo. You should end up with about 3 cups cauliflower “snow”. Place the cauliflower in a microwave safe bowl and cover. Microwave for 4 minutes. Dump cooked cauliflower onto a clean tea towel and allow to cool for a bit before attempting the next step.

Once cauliflower is cool enough to handle, wrap it up in the dish towel and ring the water out of it. You want to squeeze out as much water as possible. This will ensure you get a chewy pizza like crust instead of a crumbly mess.

Dumped ringed out cauliflower into a bowl. Now add all your spices, your almond meal, your nutritional yeast (if using), and your olive oil. Mix the mixture to incorporate all the ingredients. Now add your egg and mix away again. Hands tend to work best.

Once mixed together, use your hands to form the dough into a crust on your oiled parchment paper. Pat it down thoroughly, you want it nice and tightly formed together. Don’t make it too thick or thin either.
Using a cutting board slide the parchment paper onto your hot pizza stone or baking sheet in the oven. Bake for about 12 minutes, or until it starts to turn golden brown and the edges crisp up. Remove from oven.
Add your toppings (I recommend already cooked toppings, like shredded meat or sautéed veggies) and slide parchment with topped pizza back in the hot oven and cook for another 5 minutes until the toppings are warm. If using cheese for a topping, you can pop the pizza under the broiler to get the cheese melted fast without burning the crust.
Test your patience and allow it to cool for a minute or two. Probably closer to two. Then using a pizza cutter and a spatula serve up your delicious grain and dairy cauliflower crust pizza!

 

To top the pizza you can make your own 30 minute pizza sauce using my recipe! Or to make the pizza in these pictures, caramelize half a sliced up onion on the stove in olive oil for about 30 minutes. Tip: I add chicken broth or sometimes even just water to my caramelized onions to keep them from burning and to reduce the amount of oil I need to use. Once your onions are caramelized, add any cooked shredded meat you have to the onions to reheat the meat. My pulled pork would be amazing!  Then, simply top your cauliflower crust with desired amount of BBQ sauce, I recommend using the cooked version of my homemade BBQ sauce, and the meat and onion mix. Add 1 diced up roasted red pepper, and a dusting of parmesan if desired. Cook for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and top with 1 diced up avocado. 

 

 

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Thank you to The Lucky Penny Blog for the awesome recipe!

 

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