Wednesday night is pizza night at Casa Brillig. However, since my Type II Diabetes diagnosis back in January, pizza has been off my menu. However, let nothing stop a determined foodie who refuses to give up on interesting tasty food, as witnessed by my Mac & Cheese conversion. So grab a nice, low-sugar beverage (raspberry vodka and seltzer for me!) and follow me below the Story Break, after a word from our sponsor…
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One of my best resources for recipes that fit my carbohydrate needs is googling the string [<food I want to make> + ‘ketogenic’]. It appears that if it’s a food, someone has found a way to make a version that is lower in carbohydrates. And to my great delight, this includes PIZZA CRUST. I’ve seen cauliflower crusts that seem delicious, but for our Wednesday night pizza routine I was looking for something quick that wouldn’t involve steaming and wringing water out of cauliflower. Lo and behold, I found one- the oddly named Fat Head Pizza! The original recipe is here but I used this one because I found it first on Google :-).
The recipe itself is easy, and calls for very few ingredients (where it calls for a weight, I use that because the kitchen scale and I have become bffs):
- 170g / 6 oz / 1¾ cups (approx) shredded/grated cheese (it calls for mozzarella, but I can confirm that if you forget what kind of cheese the recipe wants when you’re at the store and use shredded parmesan because it’s what you have, it works just fine). For those who buy cheese in the handy preshredded bag, this is most but not all of one standard size bag.
- 2 tbs cream cheese
- 85g / 3 oz / ¾ cup almond flour/meal
- 1 large egg
- flavorings of choice. I use a sprinkle of garlic and some italian herb mix
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Exactly what does the nutrition on this look like? I originally intended this recipe to make two crusts (ie cut in half after baking and use one now, one refrigerate for later) with 4 ‘slices’ each, so the total recipe would make 8 “slices”. Using the recipe function of myfitnesspal.com, the site I use to track what I eat, per slice this pizza crust (not counting toppings) is: 164 calories, 13g fat, 3g carbohydrate (2g fiber, 1g sugars) and 10g protein. Mr. Brillig says it absolutely tastes like pizza, and both kids say they’d eat it if it was the crust option (they use Boboli premade crusts when we do pizza at home).
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