Another gross food item that is marketed to consumers as healthy! This IS NOT a weight loss food!!! Click HERE to find out how Partially Hydrogenated Oils leads to weight gain!
Ingredients: Enriched French Bread: Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid)Water, Degermed Corn Meal, contains 2% or less of Each of the Following: Natural Flavor, Sugar, Yeast, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Shortening (Soybean and Cottonseed Oils)Ascorbic Acid, Fungal Enzymes, Calcium Stearoyl Lactylate, Salt, Pizza Sauce (Water, Tomato Paste, Corn Syrup Solids, contains 2% or less of Each of the Following: Sugar, Flavoring, Spices, Salt, Cheese Flavor [Parmesan, Cheddar and Romano Cheeses {Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt and Enzymes)Whey, Buttermilk Solids, Sodium Phosphate, Cream, Lactic Acid}Salt, Cornstarch, Flavorings Enzyme Modified Butterfat {Butter Oil, Water, Sodium Phosphate, Lecithin, Tocopherol, Citric Acid}Modified Cornstarch, Ascorbic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Soybean Oil, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate) Nonfat Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Skim Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Artificial Color, Vitamin A Palmitate)Fat Reduced Pepperoni (Pork, Beef, Partially Hydrolyzed Whey Protein [Ingredients not Found in Regular Pepperoni]2% or less of Dextrose, Flavoring, Lactic Acid Starter Culture, Natural Smoke Flavor, Oleoresin Paprika, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Sodium Nitrite, Spice, Citric Acid)Herb Blend: Grated Parmesan Cheese (Part-Skim Cow's Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes)Oregano, Parsley. contains 8% Reduced Fat Pepperoni.
Try this instead!
1/3 cup almond flour
1/3 cup unflavored whey protein or egg white protein
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese, shredded
1 tsp Celtic sea salt
Water (just enough to hold dough together)
Optional: Italian spices
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Sift all the dry ingredients together. Slowly add in water, 1 TBS at a time until dough can hold a ball shape. Grease a pie pan. With wet fingers, push the dough to cover the pie pan. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven. Top with no sugar marinara sauce, your favorite pizza toppings and mozzerella. Place back in oven for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted. Yum! Makes 2 servings.
NUTRITIONAL COMPARISON (per serving)
Traditional Frozen Pizza = 350 calories, 16g fat, 10g protein, 54 carbs, 5 fiber
"Healthified" Pizza CRUST Only = 220 calories, 14g fat, 22g protein, 5 carbs, 2g fiber
If you prefer a "DEEP DISH" Pizza, check out the recipes in my NUTRITIOUS AND DELICIOUS cookbook.
NUTRITIONAL COMPARISON (per slice):
Pizza Hut Deep Dish = 430 calories, 37 carbs, 2 fiber)
"Healthified" Pizza = 157 calories, trace carbs, 0 fiber
OK, I figure if anybody can do this, you can :-). I am sure this is delicious pizza crust, but what I miss is that yeasty smell! Now, I know we don't eat flour and we don't eat sugar, but is there some way to incorporate the yeast into what we DO eat, so that we can smell it?
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Sorry, we dont use yeast in our house due to the health issues and candida...
ReplyDeleteThis recipe is very tasty!
Hey, thanks for the update of that fake weight loss food :) Cooking your own food and knowing what ingredients you have put in there is naturally a hit if you want to eat healthy. :)
ReplyDeleteI love this pizza. I made your deep dish recipe, but it came out soggy both times I made it. I doubled this crust recipe and rolled it out and baked in on a pizza stone. Wonderful, Thank you so much Maria. Now we can enjoy pizza again (:
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ReplyDeleteI liked it better than I thought I would too!
I'm so glad to have found this! I've tried almond flour, low-carb pizza crust that's pretty much ok, but they all come out tasting eggy. Can't wait to try this one. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI am allergic to tree nuts and am finding low carb difficult to do without nuts (also allergic to shellfish and avocados). Any substitutions for the almond flour? I'm diabetic so I'm trying really hard to make this work.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried coconut flour? Most people allergic to tree nuts can still have coconut. :)
DeleteI made this tonight and it's really good! I usually make your deep dish crust and I really love it but this was a nice, quick recipe!
ReplyDeleteThank you! :)
DeleteMaria, do you think it would turn out properly if I used actual egg whites instead of powdered egg whites and water? (The powdered egg whites are over $8 at the grocery store! :) I bought some thinking that the recipe would only call for a little bit.)
ReplyDeleteI would skip the water if you use egg whites. Egg white or whey protein is a little different as it act as a binder to hold it together. :)
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DeleteThis is a good recipe! I doubled it, and that was a bad idea for a pie pan. I also thought I would try to make it on a pizza pan that had air holes-another bad idea! Stick to the recipe, it's good! I may try a little less salt, as I like to pile on the cheese & pepperoni which are both salty enough.
ReplyDeleteMaria, I am dairy free - can you suggest a replacement for the cheese?
ReplyDeleteDo you like goat cheese? A goat cheese pizza can be very tasty! :) Or maybe Greek feta.
DeleteMaria, I know you don't use yeast but is there a reason you don't use baking powder in this recipe? Also, would coconut flour be a successful alternative to almond flour?
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This is intended to be a crispy crust so it doesn't need to rise. Coconut flour isn't a one to one conversion so you would have to use 1/4 the amount and more liquid (typically double). Thanks! :)
DeleteI have given this one an honest shot, making the recipe as is the first time and with my own alterations the following couple of times. It is not a hit, not in flavor or consistency ~ tends to be soggy, even if I bake it until it's really browned before topping it. Any suggestions? Do you have an alternate recipe I could try?? I REALLY miss pizza since removing grains and sugars from our diet...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely try this one. I know you will like it. :)
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I'm looking forward to trying a new recipe... What is the purpose of protein powder in the recipe? Is it a binder? For flavour? To bulk it up??
DeleteOn a positive note, I did manage to salvage all the toppings, including ground beef, onions, , garlic, 3 peppers of different colors, mushrooms and copious amounts of mozza cheese (we LOVE cheese!!!), and pizza sauce, from last night's final attempt at pizza using this recipe... I scraped it all off and, this morning, mixed them with 6 eggs, then baked it at 375F for an hour. DELISH!!!! All 4 kids liked it so well they took it for lunch too!!
Love your site, and all you're trying to accomplish for our health... Blessings to you and yours!
Thanks!
DeleteIn this recipe, the protein powder binds it together. :)
Deletejust made this pizza crust but used egg whites instead of protein powder and my family and I loved this crust. I have been looking for a grain free crust for a long time thank you so much for this recipe ��.
ReplyDeleteThanks Wanda! :)
DeleteHello Maria,
ReplyDeleteWe have tried the pizza crust yesterday evening and it was just as expected :)
Thanks for the recipe, easy and tasty! I also added a tea spoon of onion powder and half tsp of garlic powder.
I have a question though: I would like to avoid the whey powder if I can. Can real egg whites be used instead ? I have the impression that you suggest either whey powder or egg white powder. These ingredients are too processed to my taste (even though the almond flour is itself processed, but that's a compromise) so if I can use real egg whites fresh from the eggs, I would gladly do it.
J.
I'm glad you liked it. Some people posted that they made it without the protein powder and liked the results. :)
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