Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Cauliflower Pizza Crust

A good friend of mine mentioned "cauliflower" pizza to me.  I love cauliflower...but in our family of 4, I am the only one.  I bought a head of cauliflower a week or so ago with making it, but hadn't gotten around to it until today.  Both kids were at school, so Nick was going to be my taste tester.  I am pleasantly surprised with the outcome.  There is a very, very mild cauliflower taste to it.  Not enough for anyone to go "this is cauliflower, isn't it?"  If you didn't know that I used cauliflower to make it, you really wouldn't know by the taste.  The one thing that was different about it was you need a fork to eat it.  It doesn't get as hard of a crust as a regular pizza, but I'm okay with not having messy pizza hands.  :)


Ingredients:
1 Head of cauliflower
1 Cup mozzerella cheese
1 Egg, beaten
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/2 tsp granulated garlic
Olive oil to drizzle
(any pizza toppings you want, pizza sauce, cheese for the top)

Directions:
*Chop all the flowerettes off of the cauliflower.  Place them into a blender or mixer.



*Once all of it is into the tiny cauliflower granules, put it into a microwave safe bowl.



*Cook the cauliflower in the microwave for 8 minutes.  Still every 2 minutes throughout the cooking.


*Pre-heat your oven to 450*F.

*On a pizza pan (or any baking sheet really), place a piece of parchment paper.

*When the cauliflower is done cooking, pour it into a bowl (one medium head of cauliflower will make right around 1 cup of "grain" type cauliflower).  Add the egg, spices, and mozzarella cheese into the bowl with the riced cauliflower.


*Mix it all up.


*Pour the dough onto your parchment paper on the baking sheet.

*With your hands, push the dough out and flatten it into your pizza shape.


*Drizzle with olive oil.

*Bake at 450*F for 15 minutes.



*Once the crust is cooked, add your sauce, toppings, and cheese.  I HIGHLY suggest cooking your sauce and toppings before adding them on because your pizza will not be in the over long enough to heat through.


*Turn the "broil" on your oven on.

*Put your pizza with toppings and cheese into the oven.  Cook for about 4 minutes.  You only want to cook it until the cheese is melted.

*Careful cutting the pizza and placing it onto the place (remember how I said it isn't as hard of a dough as a regular pizza?)  Enjoy!

No comments:

Post a Comment