Guilt-Free Cauliflower Pizza

This has got to be my new favorite way to eat pizza.

And I’m pretty sure you will feel the same way after you experience your first bite of this healthy guilt-free substitute.

Cauliflower has come along way in the culinary world over the past few years.

Gone are the days where you were subjected to eating cauliflower only one way, drenched in a cheesy sauce and served up with a side of steamed carrots or green beans alongside some sort of meaty protein.

These days you can get pretty much anything made from those perfectly white florets, from being blitzed into a pasta sauce to replace creamy béchamel to being made into vegetarian burger patties and even into a gluten-free pizza base, like this one.

Now you can’t compare this cauliflower pizza base with your traditional wheat-based pizza base, they are just so different in taste and texture.

For starters, you cannot achieve the doughy texture that comes with a deep-dish pizza or the crispiness of a thin crust pizza.

But what you can achieve is a crumbly texture, speckled with grain-like shapes of cauliflower and crumbles of ground almonds.

And once baked to a golden brown complexion this tasty pizza base will bind together so it won’t fall apart, meaning it can be picked up in your hand and eaten just like a regular pizza.

And secondly, the flavor of this grain-free pizza base is absolutely spectacular. The combination of the cauliflower florets, ground almonds and parmesan all blitzed together gives this pizza base a flavor sensation that cannot be beaten.

It is also not as heavy as wheat-based bases so it is a great option for anybody looking for a lighter and healthier alternative.

Top the base with a thin spread of basil pesto then load it up with crispy free-range bacon, salty creamy feta and caramelized fried onions.

Then finish it off with a good helping of stringy mozzarella cheese. I mean how good does that sound?

And how good does that look?

And if you don’t have these topping on hand then no problem, this base will go with pretty much anything and everything.

So ditch the takeaways and make this in your kitchen tonight… you won't regret it I promise.

Enjoy.