How Can You Prepare a Healthy Homemade Pizza
Is it possible to have some health benefits from pizza? Yes, but you have to do the healthy version of a pizza. A veggie pizza which I’m going to give you the recipe now. My favorite food of all time is veggie pizza. I’ve ate a lot of pizza and I remember growing up feeling so bloated when I would eat the entire pizza. I’d feel sluggish and tired but I didn’t care because the taste was so delicious. So fast forward to when I started keto in low carb, I wasn’t willing to give up the pizza. So, I searched out a really good recipe on “what would be the health benefits of pizza”?
Health Benefits of Eating a Veggie Pizza
- Well, if you do the healthy version I’m going to recommend;
- Use low carb diet and when you go on low carb, you’re going to actually lower your insulin.
- When you lower your insulin, you’re going to lose weight.
- You’re going to lose fat on your liver
- You’ll have cognitive benefits. your mood will be better.
- You’ll have less blood sugar issues and less cravings and overall, you’re going to feel really good.
So, it is possible to have your cake and eat it too. When we’re talking about pizza, there’s a lot of other foods that you can also eat if you modify the recipes.
Now a healthy homemade pizza is all about the ingredients and the unhealthiest part of a pizza is in the crust because they normally use wheat flour. So, this recipe is going to be using cauliflower. Cauliflower can mimic a starch. It’s used in a lot of keto foods and it’s a very neutral food. It goes with a lot of other foods. You can do cauliflower rice, cauliflower pizza crust and you can also do cauliflower mashed potatoes. There are a lot of different recipes and if you add the right combinations of things, it’s pretty darn close to the unhealthy version.
What is Cauliflower?
Cauliflower is part of the cruciferous family, it has a lot of phytonutrients and it has a good amount of vitamin C, folate, B12, B6 and cauliflower are pretty low in carbs and definitely low in sugar and high in fiber. So I’m going to make this simple and I’m also going to tell you a very big mistake to avoid when you make this cauliflower pizza
Cauliflower Pizza Recipe
The key is making the crust correctly. So, follow the following steps carefully:
- Get a bowl and combine two cups of cauliflower and try to use organic cauliflower
- Add two eggs, the whole eggs of course I’m going to recommend pasture raised organic eggs. Not pasteurized eggs but pasture-raised eggs
- Then add two cups of mozzarella cheese. You can grate that and of course definitely organic and as you’re making the material for the crust.
- Preheats the oven to 425 degrees
- what you’re going to do now is you’re going to mix it all up really nicely and get some parchment paper and form pizza crust.
- Take the entire cutting board with the parchment paper and the pizza crust that’s going to go in the oven.
- Carefully transport the parchment paper part, not the cutting board but the paper with the pizza crust into the oven. So, in other words do not put the topping of the pizza on the crust as the first heating phase.
- You want to cook the crust first then pull it out then put the topping on then put it back in the oven. It’s all soggy and you cannot cook the crust in the top material at the same rate because the top’s going to burn and the bottom crust just needs more time to cook.
- Now there are couple of options with spices. You can bake the spices into the crust which is might be a good idea or you can add that on later but you can add a half a teaspoon of garlic, half a teaspoon of oregano, and half a teaspoon of basil and then you can put some sea salt on it and some pepper and some other spices that you like.
- Minimum time of cooking is going to be about 10 minutes but check it at 10minutes because it might need 12 up to 15 minutes in the oven. You want to cook it until it’s just slightly browned.
- After completion of oven’s time, take it out of the oven. Put it back on that cooking board and then wait till it cools off a little bit.
- Then you can start adding your toppings. So, try to put a low sugar type tomato sauce at first, then put a layer of grated mozzarella cheese, then put either sausage or pepperoni. Cut a tomato into little chunks and put that on the pizza maybe with some olives and maybe even mushrooms.
- So, whatever topping you like go ahead and put that on the top of that crust and put it back in the oven for another 10 to 12 minutes until the crust turns slightly brown.
- Pull it out, let it cool off and you are ready for a delicious pizza.
Ingredients for Making Cauliflower Pizza
Now since keto has become very popular, everyone is making keto products including the cauliflower pizza crust. Following are the ingredients for making a cauliflower pizza
- Cauliflower mozzarella cheese
- Cheese culture egg
- Almond flour
- Coconut flour
- Flaxseed meal cream of tartar and
- baking soda.
So, I really appreciate companies that don’t add all these additional unfriendly keto ingredients and so if you don’t have time to make the crust, something like this is a great option.
Now let’s compare that crust with some of the other popular versions of a cauliflower crust.
Newman’s own:
- First ingredient is corn starch,
- then they add rice flour and
- then tapioca starch.
Great Value:
Another brand name is great value and their ingredients are;
- Rice flour
- corn starch
- Tapioca starch
Rustic:
They had
- Wheat flour
- Potato starch
- Cauliflower
- rice flour
- Cornstarch 2X
- Tapioca starch
You don’t want a cauliflower crust with these ingredients under the name of keto-friendly or even the low carb. Some of these have like serving size. Their whole crust only has three grams of carbs
Conclusion:
So, in summary there is a way to have both healthy and delicious at the same time but you have to make sure that the ingredients are healthy if you’re buying crusts at the store.
