Recipe Post!!

                                                                    Cauliflower Pizza Crust

For those of you who don't know, I'm insulin resistant or pre-diabetic. I am always trying to find ways to cut out carbs of foods that I really like. I found a recipe for a cauliflower pizza crust so I tried it.The original recipe is posted here but I made just a few modification.

 Ingredients:

1 head of cauliflower
1 egg
1/3 cup mozzarella cheese
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper


As you can see... there is no cauliflower in this picture nor eggs. Yeah.. I can already riced the cauliflower and used the last egg that morning. So I replaced the egg with flax seed. Go me!

*Egg replacement
1 Tablespoon ground flaxseed
3 Tablespoons water.

Mix together. Equals 1 egg

                                                                               Preheat the oven to 450

 1) Cut off the florets from the head. Keep them in bite size pieces. 

 2) Using a food processor (Don't laugh at my tiny food processes) process the cauliflower until it looks like grains of rice.

This can be used as a replacement for regular rice

                                                                          

 3) Once the cauliflower has been all riced, place into a microwave safe bowl. Cover the bowl tightly with a lid or plastic wrap. Microwave on high for 6-7 mins. Do no add water. It will help to cut down on the cauliflower taste and smell.

If you have read some of my other recipe blog posts you know that we do not own a microwave. So I used our rice cooker and steamed the cauliflower.

Can you see it sitting on my rice cooker

 

4) Once the cauliflower has been steamed place the cauliflower in a thin kitchen towel and squeeze it to death! You want to get all the water out that you can!

I ended up using two kitchen towels. 

 The squeezed rice!

 5) Add in the cheese

6) Add in the seasonings

I didn't add in the fennel seed... because we didn't have any. We did though have this amazing Italian seasoning that Justin got from The Spice House.
We get all of our spices from there, cheap and amazing!  

 My replacement egg!

7) Add in the egg

 8) Mix all together

9) Line a baking sheet with parchment paper

 10) Shape the "dough" into a pizza shape.. I guess. The dough did not make nearly as much as I thought. I tried to show my hand as a guide at how big it was. Keep the crust between 1/4-1/3 of an inch thick.

11) Bake for 15-20 mins or until the crust is golden brown. 

 12) Place all toppings on the pizza. They need to be cooked already since the pizza is going under the broiler.

13) Broil until the cheese is melted

14) Tada!! My pizza!
I wasn't too stoked that the edges burnt.

 It made enough for Justin and I to have two slices each. Was it amazing.. No. Would I eat it. Yes! Justin didn't like it because the crust wasn't "doughy." Well... Duh! It's cauliflower not flour. I think I'm going to retry it and use an actual egg and cook the cauliflower for longer to see if that helps. The crust tastes like the Italian seasoning which was wonderful and covered the cauliflower taste.