Cauliflower is one of those weird vegetables you can use in anything and make it into a lot of strange things. I decided to make a cauliflower pizza base, as an alternative to a carb-heavy base which usually takes more effort to make by scratch.
Making the pizza base is really simple, but it takes a while mostly waiting for the cauliflower to cool down once it's cooked.
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Step 1. Acquire one head of cauliflower.
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Step 2. Cut off all the florets.
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Step 3. Blitz it up in a food processor until the bits are the size of rice.
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Step 4. Microwave dat shiz. It's faster than the boiling method, which also uses more utensils...
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Step 5. Let it cool, before squeezing out all the moisture with paper towels.
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Step 6. While the cauliflower cools, add some garlic, parmesan cheese, and herbs and spices to a bowl.
You can make this vegan/dairy free by omitting the cheese, but it made my crust takes very pizza-like!
The spices I added was onion powder, mixed herb (rosemary, basil, thyme, oregano etc.) and a touch of paprika.
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Step 7. Add the cooled/squeezed cauliflower.
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Step 8. I added some potato starch, because I thought it might help bind it together.
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Step 9. I also added an egg because I thought it would help it bind and keep together as well.
Again, you can omit the egg to make it vegan friendly!
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Step 10. Mix it up, and dump onto a lined pizza-pan.
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Step 11. Press it down as compact as possible, and bake for 15-20 mins, 180 degrees Celsius. (I just guessed it, and mostly
waited for the crust to turn golden brown. Only the egg needs to be "cooked" to be safe to eat anyway.
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| Step 12. When the crust is cooked, finish it up with your favourite toppings, and bake until the toppings are cooked through! |
Overall, I thought the pizza was delicious. (So did my mother.) However, I must have left a bit too much moisture in the cauliflower because the crust was soggier than I wanted, but it kept together just enough to be eaten like a pizza. I also had nothing in my fridge, so I topped it with anything I had: organic ketchup (a lot richer and more concentrated than regular ketchup), sliced zucchini, onions, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and a tiny sprinkling of cheese. It tasted amazing though! You can literally chuck anything you have in your fridge, tis the beauty of homemade pizza ;)
