This Amazing Deep Dish Pizza is made with a Nut Free, Keto, Low Carb & Gluten Free Pie Crust and a Hidden veggie that will fool any picky eater!
Deep Dish Pizza
Sometimes you can fool even the pickiest of veggie eaters and sometimes you can't. But this Cauliflower Deep Dish Pizza recipe I'm sharing today is a fool proof one for all the pickiest of eaters!
In case you're new around here, I share a lot about my 3 picky picky kids, but often the pickiest one of all is my meat and potatoes hubby. He's a lover of veggies don't get me wrong, but he is also a lover of all things carbs and starch so fooling him into eating a low carb pizza is a feat in and of itself!
Cauliflower Pizza
Of course I told them all after they tried a slice. And they all said they could not taste one ounce of cauliflower and for that they were happy. When my kids knowingly see roasted cauliflower they cringe, but mashed and hidden into other recipes which replicate a favorite type of food, they are more than willing to try it. They are getting used recipes using cauliflower and they don't seem to mind. They even enjoy my Thin Crust Cauliflower Pizza.
A traditional deep dish pizza is often eaten like pie, with a fork and knife so that was what I was going for here. This is not a "pick-it-up" like a standard pizza recipe. You need a fork and knife, but it is so satisfying and filling you'll be glad you made the effort to make this for the family and yourself.
The nutrition info is only for the pie crust, no toppings. You'll just have to use your imagination with the toppings of choice your family likes. If you need to figure out calories/macros I suggest using myfitnesspal.com.
I seriously believe cauliflower can easily be disguised in many traditional recipes with a few little tweaks here and there to make it low carb.
It's a hearty, comforting meal when you just feel like pizza.
Enjoy with a nice side salad and dinner is served!
If you're looking for more of a traditional style pizza, this Cauliflower Pizza from from Cookie Rookie looks fantastic! If you prefer vegetarian this Cauliflower Crust from Kalyn's Kitchen sounds great. For a little less traditional this Caulfilower Croque Monsieur, and finally something the kids might love the most are these Cauliflower Bread Sticks!
If it's just another way to get my kids to eat cauliflower, well, that's how I roll and I'm totally ok with it.
If you love meals like this for yourself and family, you might be interested in my meal planning membership. Weekly low carb keto dinner meal plan sent to your inbox every Friday with shopping list. The best part about my meal planning feature is that if you aren't interested in one of the dinner meals you can swap it out for something else! You can even change serving sizes and the shopping list will adjust! It pretty amazing software and I hope you'll take advantage of it. You can have a sustainable low carb/keto lifestyle when you're well prepared and planning meals is the key! LEARN MORE TODAY!
Other Hidden Cauliflower Recipes you may like:
- Mexican Lasagna
- Cauliflower Tortillas
- Bacon Cheeseburger Cauliflower Casserole
- Chicken Enchilada Cauliflower Casserole
- Baked Cauli Tots
Meal Planning
If you love meals like this for yourself and family, you might be interested in my meal planning membership. Weekly low carb keto dinner meal plan sent to your inbox every Friday with shopping list. The best part about my meal planning feature is that if you aren't interested in one of the dinner meals you can swap it out for something else! You can even change serving sizes and the shopping list will adjust! It pretty amazing software and I hope you'll take advantage of it. You can have a sustainable low carb/keto lifestyle when you're well prepared and planning meals is the key! LEARN MORE TODAY!
Cauliflower Deep Dish Pizza
Low Carb Cauliflower Deep Dish Pizza (Nut Free)
Ingredients
- 12 ounces cauliflower fresh
- 16 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 eggs
- 4 ounces coconut flour I used Bobs Red Mill
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Toppings of choice but not included for nutrition info: tomato sauce, provolone or mozzarella cheese, pepperoni
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Place your cauliflower in a food processor and pulse until it resembles rice.
- Add in mozzarella, cream cheese and eggs and process until combined.
- Pour in coconut flour and seasonings and pulse to combine. Set aside.
- Grease acast iron skillet with olive or coconut oil.
- Spread dough evenly on the bottom of the skillet and up the sides to create a crust. Fork holes into and around the sides and bottom of the dough to prevent it from getting too puffy when baking.
- Bake 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Add your sauce and additional toppings and bake another 5-10 minutes or until cheese is melted.
- Allow to cook for about 1 minutes before slicing and serving.
Notes
- Please weigh your ingredients. One head of cauliflower may be very large and over a pound. Others may be on the smaller side. 4 ounces of coconut flour does not mean ½ cup. Please weigh. Thank you!
- There is no need to pre-cook your cauliflower.
- You can use frozen cauliflower but be sure to defrost it prior to adding it in the food processor.
- This recipe was first published in February 2017 and updated with video is January 2019.
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Cheryl Deger
Good Morning Brenda, Your recipe looks fabulous... I had the hubby look it over to see if he wanted to try it... He said the ingredients looks really yummy and he thinks being able to mix it all in the food processor without having to steam/cook the cauliflower is super... His question to you is "Do you think he could do this in his bigger 10 inch cast iron skillet, so that the pizza crust would be more like a regular pizza crust and not so much like a deep dish one"??? We hope hear back from you... Thank You, Cheryl & Alan... P.S. We cook with your recipes every week!!!
Brenda
No I've tried this as a thinner pizza crust and it didn't hold up. Here's my adapted recipe for cauliflower pizza that has rave reviews. https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/keto-low-carb-cauliflower-pizza/
Arnold Juelfs
Hello, is this dough pliable enoighyou could make small pizza crust with it?
Thank you!
Brenda
No it's too flimsy for a standard pizza. Try m y regular Cauliflower Pizza recipe:https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/keto-low-carb-cauliflower-pizza/
Christy
Yum! This looks amazing, and I can't wait to try it! My only question is concerning the serving number, though - even the display picture looks like, maybe for ease of movement of the slice, it had to be cut large enough to be maybe 1/5-1/6th of the pizza. Is it really possible to get 12 servings out of this recipe, without the slices being too small/thing to bother? Am wondering if cutting it smaller would cause the crust to become too fragile? Thanks so much for sharing this 🙂
Haley
I don’t have a food processor, do you think doing it in an ninja blender will effect the outcome?
Brenda
Yes I think the Ninja will work.
Susan
I made this recipe today! Pizza was very good!
Brenda
Thank you!
Jody
Hello! I'm working with Gary Scheiner on an online training course for those with T1D. We are including a few recipes. May I include this one: https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/low-carb-cauliflower-deep-dish-pizza-nut-free/ and then post this URL to credit you at the bottom? Thx!
Brenda
If you are posting my entire recipe, then no.
Shannon
I was wondering if using a whole wheat flour instead of coconut flour would be ok? I'm not a fan of coconut flour and never have it on hand, but I do have whole wheat flour. I'm not a "true" baker, so I'm not sure if this would be a "no no" or not lol. I know that it would change the nutrition info, I'm not too worried about that.
Brenda
I think you could use it without problem.
Shannon
I actually tried a half batch to begin with...worked like a charm! Then I started to make more crusts with only an ounce of cream cheese and a tablespoon of the whole wheat flour. It worked wonderfully too! I've always made a normal cauliflower crust with just eggs, cheese, spices and cauliflower riced. That usually is thin, breakable. Adding a bit of cream cheese and whole wheat flour makes it so much more "real pizza crust like". So happy to have found this! Thank you!
Suzy
Has anyone tried using the frozen cauliflower rice? I buy the Trader Joe's frozen cauliflower rice, but am wondering about any liquid that might be produced when baking.
Julie
Loved this! I used a spring form on and it worked perfectly!
Michael
This is an awesome recipe. It is less work than the rolled pizza/stromboli recipe and the cauliflower adds a nice texture and flavor. I enjoyed this pizza a lot....have you ever tried to adapt this for making a quiche instead of pizza? Just wondering if you would par-bake it less, and/or at a lower temp since a quiche usually bakes longer than a 10-min pizza. LOVE your website!
Brenda
That's a great idea, I'm going to try the quiche and let you know!
Gloria
I made this last night for a quick dinner for myself and hubby. I loved it but lo and behold my husband, who hates anything related to vegetables loved it even more. By the way, he still doesn't know it's cauliflower.
You have a great website and I snag from it ALOT!
Thank you so much.
Brenda
That is awesome, love when that happens!
George
I extremely want to taste this pizza!!!
Thank you Brenda
Jen b
My crust was very dry. Did anyone have that problem?
Brenda
Did you weigh your ingredients? Did you change the recipe in any way?
Susan
what could i use in the place of the cream cheese ? some non dairy cream cheese doesnt heat well.
Brenda
Maybe sour cream? Can you get that dairy free or dairy free yogurt perhaps.
James
Made this for lunch today. Everyone enjoyed it. My daughter asked if she had to have the peas too since cauliflower was in the crust. One adjustment I will make next time is in oiling the cast iron pan. I poured some oil and swirled the pan but thought it may be too much so I removed some using a paper towel. The crust stuck to the pan in a few places. Next time I will leave the olive oil.
Brenda
So happy you and the family liked it!
Amy
Is the cauliflower steamed prior to ricing it? cant wait to try this!
Brenda
nope
Mary Pat Higley
Thanks. Great substitute for bread
Patty
Making this tonight! I love your cookbook and website. It's my go to source for so many things I make these days. Thank you for doing this - you do it so well, which is very much appreciated by people like me who don't like complex recipes (or ingredients!)
Brenda
Thank you so much!
JULIA MILLS
I made this tonight and it was AMAZING! Thank you for the recipe. I hate cauliflower and I LOVED this crust!
Brenda
WOW you are fast! So happy you loved it!
Sue Nelson
Your tip indicates 4 oz of coconut flour is not 1/2 cup. I really don't have a general need to justify purchasing a food scale. Can you tell me what 4 oz would be to measure in cups?
Brenda
When working with coconut flour the weight is really important because it is such a dense flour compared to other flours. You could try the 1/2 cup but there certainly may be differences in the texture when you aren't weighing your ingredients.
Josh
Is the cauliflower steamed prior to processed or just use raw cauliflower?
Sally
Would you have a suggestion on a swap for coconut flour? I don't have any and would love to try. I have almond flour, would that work?
Brenda
Unfortunately they are not easily interchangeable. It's best to look for a recipe using cauliflower. I just don't want the texture to flop on you. Coconut flour is more dense and absorbs so much more moisture than almond.
Suzanne
What size cast iron skillet did you use? Thank you!
Brenda
The bottom of mine reads 8 inch.
Suzanne
Thank you Brenda. I will be making this for dinner tonight!!!
Cheryl Deger
Good Afternoon Brenda, I just checked my cast iron and I indeed have one that reads 8 inch on the bottom... It is a very small pan and your recipe says it will yield 12 servings/slices... I'm pretty sure I would eat at least 1/2 the 8 inch pie, LoL... But I'm defiantly going to try it any way... Thank You...
Michele
Hi Brenda-
Love all your recipes. I'm sure the deep dish cauliflower crust can be made in a glass pie dish but would require some recipe tweaking. Can you suggest what those may be? Longer cooking time? Higher oven temp?
Thanks.
Brenda
My cast iron skillet was quite deep, I'm not sure you may need to glass pie plates, one might not be deep enough to hold all the dough. Yes may need 10 minutes more to get it golden brown.
Rosa
Net carbs should be 2.9 if your other figures are right. 5.2 minus 2 .3 is 2.9!
Brenda
I did not get an A in math class.ever. Thank you!
Victoria Lloyd
Hi. Thanks for the recipe for the Cauliflower Pizza. My kids are grown with families of their own but I still have that Picky Husband and the man does like cauliflower. Need the ingred. but I will try it. 🙂