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Creating An Incredible Gluten-Free Pizza

12 May 2016

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You've dedicated yourself to a new gluten-free diet, but forgot one thing: you can no longer eat pizza! For many people, this food is going to be an incredibly hard one to give up. Thankfully, it's actually possible to cook your own gluten-free pizza from scratch. And it's totally worth it.

Using Almond Flour For The Crust

The biggest source of gluten in pizza is the crust, but you can actually create your own gluten-free pizza crust by using almond flour. Beyond its gluten-free status, a ¼ cup serving has a wide range of health benefits, including:

• A healthy dose (4.6 grams) of carbohydrates
• An incredible 5.2 grams of protein
• Over three grams of polyunsaturated fats
• A burst of 6.8 milligrams for every ounce of almonds
• A healthy level of magnesium (65.2 milligrams) and calcium (57.4 milligrams)

Creating your own almond flour pizza crust requires mixing almond flour (2 ¼ cups) with a ½ teaspoon of sea salt, baking soda, and ground black pepper. Mix all these ingredients with three large eggs and two tablespoons of olive oil until your dough is easily pliable. Flatten it into a round shape and bake for 15-20 minutes before decorating.

Making Your Own Gluten-Free Pizza Sauce

Creating gluten-free pizza sauce is very easy. Simply mix eight ounces of tomato sauce and six ounces of tomato paste with a ½ teaspoon of the following herbs and spices:

• Dried oregano
• Basil
• Parsley
• Minced onion flakes
• Onion powder

To those ingredients, add ¼ teaspoon of garlic powder and sea salt. Mix them together and then warm for 10 minutes. Spread directly to the top of your almond-flour crust and get ready to add your gluten-free toppings!

Gluten-Free Toppings

You might feel like the trickiest part of creating a gluten-free pizza will be finding toppings. Not at all! Though you might not be able to eat the all-meat pizza you love, there are still a wide variety of gluten-free foods that you can integrate onto your pizza, including:

• Meat – Salmon, black cod, trout, shrimp, crab, clams, grass-fed meat, fowl, beef, lamb, wild game
• Veggies – Leafy greens, collards, mushrooms, green beans, scallions, water chestnuts, cabbage, onions, cauliflower, broccoli, kale
• Fruits – Bell peppers, squash, cucumber, eggplant
• Seasonings – Just about every kind of herbs and seasoning, including salsa and tapenade

So thankfully, you can still enjoy that chicken and mushroom pizza you've become addicted to over the years. You can also create a rather unique shrimp pizza and decorate it with some healthy kale. It might not be a traditional pizza style, but it's worth checking out.

Add whatever toppings you want to your crust, add gluten-free cheese to the top, pop it back into the oven, and bake for another 10-15 minutes and you have a delicious gluten-free pizza that the whole family will love! For further assistance, contact a local restaurant, such as Original Italian Pizza Pa.

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