Cauliflower pizza crust recipes are healthy keto pizza crust recipe made of 3 simple ingredients. Bonus, this cauliflower pizza crust keto recipe is also gluten free and grain free.
What are cauliflower pizza crust recipes ?
Cauliflower pizza crust recipes are flour less, gluten free, low carb pizza crust made of 3 simple ingredients:
- Grated cauliflower also known as cauliflower rice because of its rice-like texture and shape
- Grated mozzarella
- Egg
It is a very healthy pizza crust recipe perfect for anyone watching their carb intake. Therefore, this crispy cauliflower pizza crust recipe is keto friendly. In fact, one single slice contains only 3 grams of net carbs. Plus, cauliflower pizza calories intake are very low only 66 calories per slice ideal for anyone looking to lose weight. But before you start you need to make cauliflower rice.
How to make cauliflower rice?
Keto pizza crust made of cauliflower are very easy to make. Let’s have a look at what you need to succeed this delicious crispy cauliflower pizza crust anytime. First, you need a food processor to pulse your cauliflower florets into a rice-like texture. Otherwise, you can directly buy cauliflower rice from the store. We call cauliflower rice the result of grated or pulsed cauliflower florets. Next, you need to steam your cauliflower rice. The best technique is to steam your cauliflower into a microwave safe bowl. Obviously, if you don’t have a microwave you need to use a vegetable steamer or boil your cauliflower rice in water. Finally, the key of success of this low carb pizza crust recipe is to drain all the residual water left in your steamed cauliflower rice. You need a clean towel for this process.
How to make crispy cauliflower pizza crust recipes ?
Everyone loves a crispy pizza crust and those are the top 4 tips to make a cauliflower pizza crust crispy:
- Drain your cauliflower rice as much as you can. You must obtain a ball of steamed cauliflower, like a dough, very dry and compact.
- Spread it thin, the thinner the crispier
- Pre-bake the crust and flip it after 15 minutes
- Use full-ft mozzarella cheese
- Avoid water loaded toppings or precook them. Mushrooms, zucchini or eggplant release water on your pizza crust and soften the crust. We recommend cooking those ingredients in a frying pan before adding onto the crust.
Cauliflower pizza crust keto recipes ideas
This keto crust recipe can be used as a pizza crust replacement and therefore any toppings goes well with this crust recipe. In order to limit carbs, it is better to spread a thin layer of no-added sugar tomato paste or replace by sour cream for a zero carb option. Our favorite keto pizza toppings are:
- Pepperoni
- Sausage
- Mushrooms
- Cheese
- Onions
- Olives
- Peppers
- Chicken
- Beef
- Anchoives
More keto pizza crust
Other keto pizza crust you would love to try if you enjoy this pizza crust recipes.
- Spinach pizza crust made of eggs, cheese and spinach
- Coconut flour pizza crust a keto vegan crispy pizza base made of low carb coconut flour
- Eggplant pizza bites using roasted eggplant as a crust
xoxo Carine
cauliflower pizza crust recipes keto
Ingredients
- 5 cups cauliflower rice about the head of a medium size cauliflower
- 1 large beaten egg or flaxegg
- 1/2 cup grated mozarella
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt - optional
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano - optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200C (400F).
- Prepare a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Spray some oil on top to avoid the crust to stick. Set aside.
- Place the half of the cauliflower florets into a food processor with the S blade attachment. Process for 30 seconds, stop, scrap drown the bottom and sides. Repeat for 30 seconds until all the florets are pulsed into a fine cauliflower rice - it will looks like couscous/semolina. Transfer the cauliflower rice into a microwave safe glass bowl. Process the over half of cauliflower florets until pulsed into rice and transfer into the glass bowl.
- Cover the glass bowl with a microwave safe lid. Microwave for 5-6 minutes. Remove from the microwave with oven mitten - be careful it is super hot!
- Transfer the hot cauliflower rice onto a clean towel. Squeeze as firm as you can to release all the water. Again it is hot so use your oven mitten to avoid burning your hands.
- Open the towel, you should obtain a dry ball of cooked cauliflower rice. Transfer into a bowl, add spices, salt, beaten egg and cheese. Combine with a spatula. The cheese will melt and the cauliflower pizza crust is forming.
- Press the cauliflower crust onto the prepared baking sheet. Press with your hands to form a round pizza.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until the borders are crispy.
- It is optional but if you can flip over the crust and bake for an extra 5-8 minutes on te other side it will add extra crispiness to the crust.
- Spread your favorite pizza toppings starting with a sauce like sour cream or no-added sugar tomato paste then flat ingredients like pepperoni, ham and finish with extra grated pizza cheese
- Bake again for 15 minutes until your toppings are cooked and cheese is melted.
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Can you do meal prep with these where you roll the crusts out thin and leave it in the baking tray then freeze it for later? Just curious if I could prep several and deep freeze them then add toppings and bake from frozen later?
Of course, it will work very well. No need to defrost, add topping on the prebaked frozen crust and pop in the oven as a regular pizza. Enjoy, XOXO Carine.
this recipe didnt stste how many carbs per slice
Sorry for that ! The nutrition panel is now showing properly. One slice of crust brings you 3 g net carbs. The recipe serve 6 slices. Enjoy, XOXO Carine.
do you preface this? I dont see further instructions on this except the 3 ingredients and cooking califlower in microwave.
thanks
Hi.. I cant seem to find which step the egg has bee used in.. can this b made without the egg ?
In step 6, you can also use a flaxegg for an egg free cauliflower pizza crust. See recipe note to see how to make flxegg. Enjoy the pizza crust, XOXO Carine.
Sorry there was an issue wih the recipe plugin not showing the recipe it is fixed now ! Enjoy the crust. XOXO Carine.
Hi. Can you make this without cooking the cauliflower?
Hi, Unfortunately no. It won’t hold together. The cooked cauliflower is soft and the cheese stick to it creating the most delicious soft, crispy pizza crust when baked. Enjoy the recipe my friend. XOXO Carine.
Can you use a difference grated cheese for example mozzarella instead of Parmesan cheese
Yes, sure any grated cheese works in this recipe. My favorite are mozarella, cheddar, emmental or edam.
Hi, have you ever froze this Pizza? If yes, what did you do with it after it came out of the freezer? Thanks.
Hi, no I did not freeze it but I will recommend you to pre-bake the crust before freezing.
Holy Smokes! Just made this for me and my husband (the man who refuses to eat veggies). Not only did he devour it, he asked when I could make more. Huge success, THANKS!
Hi Jakkie, I LOVE those sort of comment! Such a pleasure to read you and realised that my recipes makes people love veggie even the most weird veggie like cauliflower 🙂 I have got another veggie pizza recipe that always works well too. Check out the spinach pizza crust here: https://www.sweetashoney.co.nz/spinach-pizza-crust/ or you can try to make my garlic breadstikcs made of cauliflower & broccoli here: https://www.sweetashoney.co.nz/cheesy-caulibroccoli-garlic-breadsticks/
Enjoy and see you around soon 🙂 Carine.
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Just made this and it is PERFECT!! I added some finely diced leeks since I didn’t have quite enough cauliflower after having used the rest to make cauliflower mash earlier this week. I also had more like 2/3-3/4 cup of parmesan.
That is great! It is nice to read positive comments 🙂 Leek should taste good as well a must try for my next one. I recently tested broccoli instead of cauliflower and except the strange greenish color for a pizza it taste awesome !
I’m trying this for the 1st time. there was a little broch in the cali i am using and i thought what the heck.
I’m looking forward to trying this pizza crust. Thanks.
It is really yum and you will be surprised by how it taste great 🙂 you will not believe it is made of cauliflower.
I’ve been wanting to try cauliflower pizza crust forever and just simply haven’t gotten around to it. You have solidified I must make it and soon because this looks to delicious and too easy to not try! Thanks!