cauliflower pizza - AMAZE

I spotted the original recipe on The Diet Kitchen and if you're not subscribed to their youtube channel then you need to go do it!  My favourite videos they put up are the "my favourite things" videos where they show off 3 or 4 macro friendly food found in the UK.  Much good things.

Ingredients:

800g of cauliflower (I got two from Tescos and that gave us 934g and that worked just fine)
1 egg
herbs (we used garlic powder, basil, oregano, salt, and pepper)
50g cheese
tomato puree
toppings (we used 2 chicken breasts - protein-tastic)

Step 1
Cut off the rubbish from your cauliflower and cut all the white bits into smaller white bits.  Place in a bowl and take a weird photo of it.

Step 2

Put the cauliflower into a food processor or use a hand blender to turn it into a mushy "cauliflower flour".  I used a hand blender and I honestly thought it would never work, but I kept at it for 5 minutes and had the mush required!

lovely mush!

Step 3

Put the mush bowl into the microwave for 7 minutes and pre-heat your oven to 220 degrees C.  Warning: this will make your whole house smell like horrible cauliflower.  Once it's out of the microwave let it cool or you will burn your hand in the next step like I did. 

Step 4

Take a clean tea towel and lay it out flat.  Pour the mush into the tea towel, wrap the towel up around it to make a wee ball, and over a bowl squeeze out all the excess water.  The more water you squeeze out then the crispier your base will be.

Step 5

Once you've squeezed out the water it's time to add flavour, half the cheese, and the egg. We added salt, pepper, garlic powder, dried basil, and dried oregano.  

Step 6

Base constructing time!  Take an oven tray and place a non-stick baking sheet on the tray.  Spray liberally with low calorie cooking spray or use a teaspoon of oil.  Plop the cauliflower mush onto the tray and spread out using your hands into a pizza shape...ours was more of a rectangle pizza...but don't make it too thick or it'll taste gross.

Step 7

Cook the base for 25 minutes or until golden and crispy enough for you.  The edges will probably go browner than the rest of it but don't panic!

Step 8

Pizza out, toppings on!  We used tomato puree, the rest of the grated lower fat cheese, chicken, pesto, and spinach.  Pop it back in the oven for 5-7 minutes for everything to melt and get amazing.

TA DAH!

I'm not going to lie, this is nothing like a proper like pizza hut pizza, but it is fucking tasty.  For someone watching their macros this is PERFECT.  We endulged a little with cheese and extra chicken but the macros for half a pizza worked out roughly as:

Calories - 497.5

Carbs - 14.5g

Fat - 18.5g

Protein - 62.5g

Or without toppings:

Calories - 272

Carbs - 12g

Fat - 12g

Protein - 23g

Will defo be doing this again!