Tag: Pizza

Margarita Cauli Pizza

Recipe courtesy of Psychologies Magazine (September 2017)

Psychologies Nutrition Editor Eve Kalinik has written Be Good to Your Gut: The ultimate guide to gut health – with 80 delicious recipes to feed your body and mind

Eve created this recipe for a vegan friend of hers who was diagnosed coeliac and desperately missed pizza.  Entirely unimpressed by a lot of the gluten-free versions, her friend gave this recipe a resounding thumbs-up.

Serves:  4

Ingredients:

½ medium-large cauliflower, cut roughly into florets
3 tbsp ground flaxseed
50g ground almonds
½  tsp dried oregano
¼ tsp garlic powder
¼ tsp mineral-rich salt

For the cashew cheese:

65g cashews, soaked for 2 hours, drained and rinsed
4 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
Generous pinch of mineral-rich salt
Juice of ½ lemon
120ml filtered water

For the topping:

1 tbsp ghee or organic unsalted butter
1 red onion, peeled and thinly sliced
10-12 cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
Basil leaves, roughly torn

Step One:  Preheat the oven to 200oC / 400oF / Gas Mark 6 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment.  Place the cauliflower florets in a food processor and pulse until you have a fine rice-like texture.

Step Two:  In a large bowl, mix the ground flaxseed with 6 tablespoons of filtered water to get a sticky texture.  Ad the almonds, dried oregano, garlic powder and salt, along with the cauliflower, and use your hands to mix together and create a ‘dough’. Spread this on the baking sheet to form a circle that is about 5mm thick and place in the oven for 45 minutes.  Remove from the oven and set aside to cool and crisp.

Step Three:  To make the cashew cheese, put all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until you have a smoothish texture.

Step Four:  For the topping, heat the ghee butter in a frying pan and saute the onion until soft.  Add the tomatoes, then the garlic and cook for a further 2 minutes.  Remove from the heat and stir through the basil leaves.  To assemble, spread the cashew cheese over the pizza base, then add the tomato topping.  Finish with a generous pinch of mineral-rich salt.

Margherita Pizzas

Recipe courtesy of Psychologies Magazine (February 2016) and taken from the book River Cottage Gluten Free written by Nutritionist, cook and River Cottage teacher Naomi Devlin.

This is a thin-based pizza, sparingly spread with a simple tomato sauce and baked until the base is invitingly crisp and the cheese is bubbling.

Margherita pizzaServes:  3-4

Ingredients for the Pizza Base:-

70g sorghum flour; 10g fresh yeast (or 3g quick dried)
140g potato starch
40g tapioca starch
25ml olive oil
1 large egg
1 scant tsp sea salt
1 tsp light Muscovado sugar
1 tsp xanthum gum or 2 tsp ground psyllium husk
1 tsp cider vinegar
Fine polenta or rice flour

Ingredients for the Topping:

400g tin plum tomatoes
2-3 fat garlic cloves, finely chopped
50ml olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
Few drops wine vinegar (optional)
2-3 mozzarella balls, each about 125g
Thyme, or oregano leaves for sprinkling (optional)
Rocket leaves and Parmesan shavings

Step One: For the pizza base, mix the sorghum flour, yeast and 120g tepid water in a bowl until smooth, then cover.  Set aside at room temperature for an hour to ferment.

Step Two: For the tomato sauce, chop the tomatoes and put in a pan with the juice from the tin.  Add the garlic and cook, covered, over a medium heat, for 10 minutes.  Stir in the olive oil, a couple of pinches of salt, a few good grinds of pepper, a pinch of sugar and a little vinegar if you think the flavour needs lifting.  The oil will take a bit of stirring to get it to emulsify with the tomato.  If the sauce is too thin, cook uncovered for a few minutes.  Set aside to cool.

Step Three: When you are ready to make the dough, beat the remaining pizza base ingredients, except the polenta or rice flour, into the sorghum mixture, until smooth.

Step Four:  Sprinkle flat baking sheets and work-surface with fine polenta or rice flour.  Scoop up a quarter of the dough with floured fingers, roll into a ball, then roll out on your floured surface into a thin circle, about 5mm thick.  Pick up an edge gently and slide a floured rolling pin underneath to help you transfer the delicate dough to the baking sheet.  Repeat with the rest of the dough.

Step Five:  Spread the sauce between the pizzas using the back of a spoon.  Slice mozzarella and lay on top.  Sprinkle with thyme or oregano and drizzle any exposed dough with a little olive oil.  Leave to rise at room temperature for about 1 hour, until the dough looks puffy.  Preheat the oven to 250oC /Fan 230oC/Gas 10, or as high as it will go and bake for 6-8 minutes.  Add rocket and Parmesan, and serve.