Alright - this is my first blog post. I decided to not overextend myself and blog about a recipe I tried on Friday night. So here goes nothing!
I cannot take credit for this recipe. I found it on fellow Beachbody Coachs' Kati's and Melanie's blogs. But I can tell you just how my version turned out! One pizza serves two people.
Ingredients:
- 1c cooked, riced cauliflower
- 1c low-moisture, part-skim milk mozzarella cheese
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano - I didn't measure it out
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed garlic - I didn't use this
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt - I didn't measure it out
- olive oil (optional)
- Pizza Toppings - I used no salt added, organic spaghetti sauce, shredded cheese and turkey pepperoni. Veggies are ALWAYS a great idea, I just didn't have any on hand.
Ok - so you are probably thinking - what the heck! - how do you rice cauliflower??? I thought the exact same thing. Thankfully, Kati has wonderful directions on her blog along with pictures. I'm going to do my best do describe how I did it.
How to rice cauliflower:
- Take one head of cauliflower. Wash it, remove all the stems, and chopped it into chunks.
- Add the cauliflower chunks to a food processor (I used my blender because I don't own a food processor) and pulse until it looks like a grain.
- If you don't have a food processor or blender, you can use a cheese grater to grate up the cauliflower.
- I was VERY careful not to over-process the cauliflower. If you do, it will puree and you will have cauliflower soup!
- Once the cauliflower has a grainy consistency, place it in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for about 8 minutes. This will steam your cauliflower so it's cooked!
- You don't need to add any water to steam the cauliflower because it already has a lot of natural moisture!
- Once cooked, let the cauliflower cool and do you best to get every drop of water out of it.
- I literally used paper towels and pressed the heck out of it!
- Then, when I was ready to measure it out, I formed it into small, hand sized balls, and squeezed even more moisture out!
- Trust me, you don't want to have too much moisture!
Voila - you have riced cauliflower! Kati's blog said that 1 large head should produce 3 cups of riced cauliflower but I only got 1 cup. Then again, I had to throw some of the cauliflower away because it was starting to brown in the fridge.
Let's make a pizza crust!
Let's make a pizza crust!
- Preheat oven to 450.
- Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray or use a pizza stone.
- do not make the same mistake I made! I forgot to spray the pan and it was an ever-loving messs!
- Combine riced cauliflower, cheese, egg (beaten), oregano, garlic and garlic salt in a medium bowl.
- Mix ingredients until they have a dough consistency.
- Transfer your pizza dough to your cookie sheet and into a 9" round.
- Lightly brush/spray the top of the dough with olive oil. This can be omitted if you so wish.
- Place your dough, on the middle rack, in your oven for 15 minutes.
- The edges will get slightly brown. It's not burning but watch the dough carefully.
- Remove the crust from the oven and top with your sauce and toppings.
- All of your toppings need to be precooked because you will just be toasting them.
- Turn your oven to broil and place your pizza under the broiler for a few minutes.
- Watch your pizza carefully or it will start to smoke!
- Let cool, cut, and ENJOY!
We made this last Sunday and I LOVED IT!!! We will definitely be making it again. I followed your directions EXACTLY and it worked out great. Thank you so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it Lindsey! It's so yummy and EASY to make :)
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