Pizza is a savoury dish of Italian origin but has become a favourite of every child in India. The traditional pizzas are made from refined flour, refined salt, sugar, processed dairy and other unhealthy ingredients.
This pizza uses a vegetable for its crust and uses relatively healthy ingredients, is oil-free, dairy-free, grain-free as well.
Ingredients
Crust
- Cauliflower 2
- Unrefined salt
- 200gms Un-roasted flax powder
Sauce / Curry
- Chopped tomatoes 4
- Chopped onions 2
- Fresh basil leaves
- Unrefined salt
- 1 tsp Red chilli powder
Cheese
- 1/2c soaked cashew
- 1/2 tsp mustard
- Unrefined salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 3-4 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
Spices / Vegetables
- Italian seasoning mix (dry thyme, oregano, basil, parsley)
- Slices of cucumber
- Slices of capsicum
- Slices of onion
- Any veggies of your choice
Method
To make the cheese
- Soak the cashew for 3-4 hrs
- Grind with very little water, mustard, garlic, pepper, salt and lemon juice. Keep aside the paste
To make the sauce/curry
- In a dry pan, roast the onions until they are browning
- Add chopped tomatoes till they are finely cooked
- Add basil, chilli powder and salt and switch off
To make the crust
- Remove the florets from the cauliflower, wash them thoroughly
- Prepare some boiling water, add some salt to it and switch off.
- Add the florets to it and let it get disinfected for 5 mins.
- Remove the florets and use a food processor/mixie and shred the cauliflower florets to a fine powdery consistency. Let's call this cauliflower rawa
- To remove all the water from the rawa, use a nut milk bag and squeeze all the water out. It can have about 2-3 tsp of water. You can use this water for any other dish that you make on the same day.
- For every cup of this cauliflower raw, mix 1/4c flax powder, salt to taste
- Knead them to a uniformly mixed dough
- Preheat the oven to 180c
- On a tray lined with parchment paper, take a big ball of the dough and press it to a round and flat shape.
- Bake for 30 mins on 2 rods. Every oven is different. Hence check for browning on the crust.
- Once the colour is brown, turn and bake on the other side for 5 mins
- Next, remove the crust, spread any tomato sauce / homemade tomato curry on the base, line them with vegetables of your choice, sprinkle Italian seasoning, salt and pepper and bake for an additional 2-3 mins. You can also top it with a curry that has partially cooked vegetables.
- Remove them from the oven, spread the cashew cheese and enjoy!
Note:
- This crust can also be roasted on an iron Tawa, but it will be relatively softer than an oven-baked crust.
- For people looking for nut-free options, cashew can be replaced with melon seeds.
Smitha Hemadri
10:58 AM | 27-04-2020
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