Taste Bud Thursday

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

We tried the recipe this week, loved it, and have added it to our "GDM safe" recipe book.

Note: Next time we make this, I promise to add some pictures into this post, it got eaten too quickly!

My 2 year old son ate like a champ, asked for more, and it was gone in minutes. We loaded the veggies and lean hamburger and found that it was quite good for us to boot, when we added up the nutritional value.

We doubled the recipe to get a pizza crust big enough to make a meal with our family size of three. We also used fresh herbs instead of dried, so we used a bit more than the recipe called for.

This recipe would work well for anyone on a diabetic diet, gluten free diet, or simply wanting to eat low carb. A variation is to use zucchini instead of cauliflower, but we haven't tried that (yet).

The recipe and directions are thus:

Crust:

• 1 cup cooked, shredded cauliflower (also referred to as "riced")
• 1 egg
• 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
• 1/2 tsp fennel
• 1 tsp oregano
• 2 tsp parsley

Top:

• Pizza sauce (Find one with no sugar added if you can)
• Toppings
• Mozzeralla cheese

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees
   
2. In a medium bowl, combine 1 cup shredded cauliflower, egg and 1 cup mozzarrella.
3. Fold in the herbs.
4. Press this goup evenly and thinly on a pizza pan.
   
5. Bake crust at 450 degrees for 12 - 15 minutes.
   
6. Remove baked crust from oven.
   
7. Add the pizza sauce of your choice and toppings of your choice.
   
8. Sprinkle Mozzerella on top.
   
9. Return to oven on BROIL - Remove when cheese is melted.

Nutritional information approximate to one pizza based on toppings of just vegetables is:

Entire crust: Calories; 434, Fat 25g, Carbohydrates; 8 (net) 13 total, Fibre; 5g, protein; 41g. one serving: 109 calories, 7 grams fat, 2 net carbs, 1.5 grams fiber, 10 grams protein.


*Taste Bud Thursday will feature a low carb and diabetic friendly recipe each week, hopefully to entice your palate and provide variety in a specialized diet for GDM. Please note that you should always check with your doctor (or a nutritionist) before undertaking any severe diet changes, like cutting back on important nutritional building blocks like carbohydrates. Be safe while you dine, folks.