recipe #18 - Cauliflower Pizza Crust

To say I'm slightly obsessed with cauliflower would be an understatement. My love of cauliflower has already been blogged about here and here. I even have a pinterest board started dedicated solely to cauliflower. Last week I finally made cauliflower pizza crust. It's been on my cauliflower bucket list since I first learned about cauliflower rice. I know I will be making this in the future instead of giving in to ordering pizza.

Ingredients:

-1 cup cooked, cauliflower rice**
-1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
-1 egg, beaten
-1 tsp dried oregano
-1/2 tsp garlic salt (I used garlic powder)
-olive oil (optional, i did not do this, but it was in the original recipe)

Other - pizza sauce (I used a thin layer of olive oil and franks hot sauce) and pre-cooked pizza toppings.

1. Preheat oven to 450
2. In a medium bowl mix cauliflower rice, cheese and egg together. Add in spices, transfer to a cookie sheet (pre-spray cooking sheet with non-sticking cooking spray) and pat out your pizza crust. You want it to be thin, but not too thin or it won't cook properly. If you are using olive oil this is where you would brush a thin layer over to help browning, mine worked fine without this.
3. Bake between 15-30 minutes until crust is browned. My oven took around 30 minutes.
4. Take out pizza crust, add pre-cooked pizza topping and broil for 5 minutes.

**How to Cook cauliflower rice:

1. Clean and cut cauliflower into florets.
2. Use a food processor to pulse until the cauliflower looks like grains.
3. Place the cauliflower into a microwavable bowl and microwave for 8 minutes.
4. My cauliflower made around 2 1/2 cups.

Cauliflower Pizza Crust

-mjb