So I've been doing a very clean eating program and it's been working so far, I've been losing weight (fat weight) and at the same time putting on muscle. The one thing that I've been missing in my diet is pizza! I found this amazing recipe for the "Holy Grail of Keto: Low-Carb Pizza Crust" and I have to say, it's nothing short of AMAZING.
This pizza was so good that I thought I was cheating my program!!!
So, I've decided to share the recipe for anyone else out there that's looking to eat keto / clean but still have pizza. I've also included tips below for when you are cooking it.
Pictured in this post:
- Flatbread with ranch, green peppers, green onions, mushrooms and mozzarella cheese!
- Pizza with sundried tomato sauce, mushrooms, italian sausage and mozzarella cheese!
Nutritional information for these pizzas is the bottom of this page.
Crust Ingredients:
-
3/4 cup - shredded mozzarella cheese (organic / clean)
- 2 Tbsp - cream cheese (organic / clean)
- 1 cup - almond flour
- 1 egg (organic / clean)
- 2 Tbsp - psyllium husk powder
- 1 Tbsp - dried Italian seasoning
- 1/2 tsp - salt
Note: the entire pizza takes about 20 to 25 minutes to cook, including making the dough.
Prep
- Preheat your oven on broil (high setting).
- Grill/cook any meats and veggies (I used a griddle) while you are making your dough.
Step 1
Take a glass bowl and put the mozzarella cheese in it. Put this in the microwave until the cheese is melted (about 30 to 35 seconds). You want the cheese to be melted, but not brown!
Step 2
Let the cheese cool until you can touch it, but it should still be warm and gooey. Once you are able to touch the cheese ok, put in all other ingredients. (TIP: Spray your hands with olive oil spray to stop everything from sticking to you.)
Using your hands, mix all of the ingredients in and knead it with the cheese. Keep kneading it until all of the ingredients evenly mixed and it starts to form a dough.
Step 3
Once all of the ingredients are evenly mixed in, you will have a "dough ball". You will want to have a very well greased (I use EVOO spray), again I will repeat this, a very well greased cooking sheet. Again using your hands, press the dough into a 12-inch round circle for pizza or make 2 equal rectangles for flatbreads making sure that there are no holes/gaps in the middle.
Place the cooking sheet into the oven fro 5 to 7 minutes until the top turns light brown.
Step 4
NOTE: In the photo, I used tinfoil. DO NOT use tinfoil or your crust will stick (even with a lot of evoo spray), spray the cookie sheet directly and press the dough onto it, the crust will come out much better!
After the crust turns light brown (again, only 5 to 7 minutes), take it out of the oven and using a spatula, lightly scrape under the crust from each side, once the crust is not stuck to the pan any longer, flip the pizza crust so that the side that you just browned is on the bottom.
Put the pizza crust back in the oven for 5 minutes or until it's light brown on the top again.
Step 5
Take the crust out of the oven and add low carb pizza toppings.
Here is the toppings we used (Note: I grilled these on the skillet while I was making the crust:
1 Tbsp on each of the flatbreads of Organic / Clean Ranch Dressing- 1/2 - Bell Peppers - Diced and grilled
- 1/2 of a GREEN Onion - chopped and grilled
- a hand full of sliced mushrooms - chopped and grilled
- Chicken breast (organic of course) - grilled
- Mozzarella cheese (just enough to cover the pizza lightly to keep the toppings in place)
Step 6
Put the pizza in the oven and bake at 400 degrees until the cheese is melted and turning brown (about 7 to 9 minutes, possibly less depending on your oven and toppings).
Nutrition Information:
This nutrition information is only for the crust, you will need to factor in nutrition information for your toppings, but in most cases, veggies and meats will be on the keto plan. Just make sure you use a sauce that works with the low-carb/keto diet.
Serving size: 1 flat bread!
Total Nutritional Information
Scroll down for the crust and topping nutritional information separately in case you want to do other toppings.
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving Size: | 1 Flatbread |
| Amount Per Serving | |
| Calories: | 355.3 |
| Calories from fat: | 234.9 |
| Total Fat | 26.1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10.75 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Total Carbs | 10.6 g |
| Net Carbs | 4.9 g |
| Fiber | 5.5 g |
| Sugar | 4 g |
| Protein | 19.85 g |
Crust Nutritional Information
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving Size: | 1 Flatbread |
| Amount Per Serving | |
| Calories: | 200.8 |
| Calories from fat: | 131.4 |
| Total Fat | 14.6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7.5 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Total Carbs | 7.8 g |
| Net Carbs | 3.4 g |
| Fiber | 4.4 g |
| Sugar | 2 g |
| Protein | 12.25 g |
Topping Nutritional Information
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving Size: | 1 Flatbread |
| Amount Per Serving | |
| Calories: | 154.5 |
| Calories from fat: | 103.5 |
| Total Fat | 11.5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3.25 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Total Carbs | 2.8 g |
| Net Carbs | 1.5 g |
| Fiber | 1.1 g |
| Sugar | 2 g |
| Protein | 7.6 g |
Tassos Sundried Tomato Pasta Sauce
If you want to really make it a pizza, we found this really good Sundried Tomato pasta sauce. This sauce is great!
What we did was use 1 Tbsp per flat bread, that's only 1/2 of the serving size. So the nutritional information for each flat bread is below. One tablespoon is plenty to get a good amount of the flavor onto your flatbread.
Tassos Sundried Tomato Pasta Sauce Nutritional Information
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving Size: | 1 Tbsp |
| Amount Per Serving | |
| Calories: | 40 |
| Calories from fat: | 30 |
| Total Fat | 3.5 |
| Saturated Fat | 0.75 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Total Carbs | 1 g |
| Net Carbs | 0.5 g |
| Fiber | 0.5 g |
| Sugar | 1 g |
| Protein | 0.5 |