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.
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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.
Lee
This was so good! I don’t have a cast Iron skillet but I have an oven pie plate and worked perfectly. Made the perfect deep dish pizza!
Brenda Bennett
Awesome, thank you!
Terry
Hi. I am SO happy to have found your site! I am a party of one, so it takes me a while to get through all the great ideas, but I save those that look interesting and this one will be added to my pike. Thank you!
AnneB
What size cast iron pan are you using here? I have several sizes & I know if I use one too big, it won't set up! Thnx
Brenda
9 inch or 10 inch will work
Kaye
Made this tonight. It was so so good!!! I made it with homemade pesto sauce topped with cheese, pepperoni, and mushrooms. Hubs and I loved it. We love your recipes, both from your blog and your cookbook! 🙂
Brenda
Thank you so much! I like the pesto idea, I'll have to try that!
K
Where did you find the pepperoni cups shown in the pictures?
Brenda
The mini pepperoni I found at Super Stop & Shop.
ANDREW
I saw where someone suggested subbing Wheat flour. Is it also low carb?
Brenda
Wheat flour is not low carb.
Matthew Lowther
Would a vegan version if this work with vegan cream cheese and some kind of egg replacer instead of eggs?
Brenda
I think replacing the two eggs would be fine as well as the small amount of cream cheese but it's quite a lot of mozzarella to replace, but if you have a vegan cheese to replace mozzarella I'm sure it can be done.
Jenny
I doubt I'll have any leftovers, but if I do, how do you suggest reheating? Thank you!
Brenda
You can reheat in a toaster oven if it's just one piece or slice multiple pieces and place on a baking pan and heat at 350 till cheese is melted again.