Like Cauliflower? Love Pizza? Try this recipe out!

Yesterday, my wife and I were meal planning for the week and she stumbled across a recipe for Cauliflower Crust Pizza. I don't think she thought I'd try to make it but instead, I think she was just sharing it because it was something "cool". I wrestled with the idea of trying it because honestly, I wanted to do something simple but after reading the recipe, it was a no brainer - IT'S SO EASY! Total time, including bake time, was about 30-40 minutes. 

First, you'll need: Cauliflower (I used a normal sized one so I could make a bigger pizza)
1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese
1 cup of Mozzarella cheese
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of dried basil
1/2 teaspoon of dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
2 eggs  

*Oh yeah! and you'll need wax paper and cooking spray (I used Pam)

Start with you cauliflower. Make sure you rinse it really well. If you have some, use Vegetable Spray, use that to make sure you get it really clean. Go ahead and preheat the oven to 450 degrees.

You only need florets so feel free to throw away the stems and the stalk. Once you have all the pieces, I'd suggest re-rinsing (with your vegetable spray) just because now you're able to clean parts of the cauliflower you weren't originally able to. Dry the cauliflower and put the pieces in your food processor and pulse until you get a "cauliflower snow" like this: 

Put the "cauliflower snow" in a microwaveable bowl (I just used a plastic mixing bowl since I knew I'd be mixing in the next steps) and microwave for 4 minutes. After you microwave, dump the contents of the bowl onto a clean (and lint-free) towel. After it cools for about 5 minutes, you'll want to squeeze out all the water that you can. To give you a good barometer, I squeezed out about 1 cup of water. 

Once you have the "cauliflower snow" as dry as possible, put it back in the mixing bowl and add the parmesan cheese, 1/4 cup of mozzarella cheese (save the rest for later), basil, oregano, garlic powder, salt, red pepper (if you want a little kick), and the two eggs. The original recipe calls for 1 egg but I found that the second egg really helped everything bond better. 

Mix the contents with your hands until you have a ball of "cauliflower dough". This next step is VERY IMPORTANT...take the wax paper and put it on the baking sheet of your choice. I happened to have a 12" pizza pan so I put it on that. Spray the wax paper with the cooking spray. This part was important because, it was difficult prying off the crust from the sheet even though I sprayed the sheet with Pam so use liberally. Place your newly formed "cauliflower dough" on the wax paper and spread out evenly (I cheated and took another piece of wax paper, put it on top and used my rolling pin but if you don't have one, your hands will work fine). It'll look like this:

Put it in the oven for 10-12 minutes until it looks like this:

Take the crust out of the oven and go to town with your toppings! I added tomato sauce, baked chicken breast (trying to become more of a breast man), and spinach. Use the rest of the mozzarella cheese that you have measured out to cover your toppings or the sauce, however you want! Put back in the oven for another 10 minutes and you're good to go! This was my finished product!

There you have it! A gluten free, low carb, delicious, healthy version of junk food! I hope you try it and let me know how it worked for you! Enjoy :-)