I never thought I would love cauliflower as much as I do now. For the past few weeks, I have been craving for a pizza, but I wanted a gluten free crust.One day, while I was doing laundry, I received an email of recipes from a newsletter I subscribed to, and in one of them was a cauliflower pizza crust, which caught my attention. It was very simple and easy. I was so excited, I turned to look at Joel, showed him the recipe and said, "We're making this!!!"
The newsletter is directed towards people interested in the Paleo lifestyle. Paleo comes from the word "Paleolithic" and it denotes the period of human evolution that began 2.5 million years ago and ended at the agricultural revolution. This diet, that many people follow, is based upon the notion that humans have evolved through a lifestyle of hunting and gathering. What agriculture brought was the movement into farming practices and the propagation of crops and foods, that humans originally didn't consume.
Paleo is basically eating whole unprocessed foods. For instances, lean meat, poultry, seafood, organic vegetables and fruits, as well as nuts and seeds. At least what a hunter and gatherer would eat.
CRUST
2 cups ground raw cauliflower flourettes (about 1 small cauliflower)
¾ cups almond flour (may need to add more flour for doughy texture)
3 eggs
1 teaspoon fresh basil, chopped or ground basil spice
½ teaspoon onion powder
½ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon sea salt
A few grinds of fresh ground pepper
TOPPING
Pesto Sauce or Sundried Tomato sauce *pizza base* (we used Bolani brand)
1/2 yellow Onion
2 cloves of garlic 1/2 bundle of Spinach
small broccoli Florettes
1/2 bundle of kale
4 carrots chopped
4 Crimini Mushrooms
Mixed Greek Olives
Whole red bell pepper chopped
1 whole zucchini chopped
2 tbsp Ghee
DIRECTIONS
Making the Crust
Preheat oven 450 degrees.
Cut up cauliflower into small florets and add into food processor until small pieces.
Take 2 cups of cauliflower from the food processor and put it into a bowl.
Add almond flour, onion powder, garlic powder, basil, salt, black peper and eggs into bowl and mix it all together.
Put mixture in a pizza pan and flat it out and put it in the oven
Bake for 25-30 min
Take the crust out when it is golden brown on top.
Spread pesto on top of the crust
Making the Topping
Get a pan warm it up about high to med heat and add about 2 tbsp of coconut oil in the pan.
Cut up onions and garlic
once the coconut oil is melted add onions and garlic
Cut
up carrots, spinach, kale, broccoli, red bell pepper, zucchini, and
mushrooms, then add into the pan, let it steamed by putting a lid on pan.
Let it steam for 25min.
Keep an eye on it by mixing
the veggies now and then.
After the crust comes out of the oven, add pesto or tomato sauce as the base, then incorporate add the veggies on top of the crust and spread out evenly
Add cut up mix greek olives on top of the pizza pie
