{"id":6027,"date":"2011-01-25T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2011-01-25T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:39:52","slug":"low-carb-cauliflower-pizza-semi-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/6027","title":{"rendered":"Low Carb Cauliflower Pizza Semi-Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon I made my second attempt at making Low Carb Cauliflower Pizza<\/a>. The first time it didn\u2019t turn out too bad but I mistakenly used two eggs instead of one so the bottom was a little\u2026 eggy.\u00a0 This time I tried a different approach.\u00a0 I made some mistakes but now I think I know where I went wrong.<\/p>\n

\"cp1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

First I used my processor to shred the cauliflower and mozarella cheese.\u00a0 Here is where I think I made my first mistake.\u00a0 I cooked the cauliflower first and tried to squeeze the moisture out of it so it wouldn\u2019t be too wet, but it still was a little.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard from a number of people that using raw, shredded cauliflower works better so I will be doing that next time to see if it\u2019s any better.<\/p>\n

\"cp2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, as the directions said, I mixed in one beaten egg.\u00a0 So far so good\u2026<\/p>\n

\"cp3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That left me with this, a wettish sort of dough blob.\u00a0 It held it\u2019s consistency pretty well but was also quite easy to pull apart. It certainly wasn\u2019t like actual<\/em> dough but it still appeared to be good enough for what I needed.<\/p>\n

\"cp4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is where the big mistakes started.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have a cookie sheet or a pizza pan so I used baking paper to spread it out on.\u00a0 I also spread it too thin.\u00a0 I was worried that if I didn\u2019t that it would stay too mushy in the middle and hoped it would become more crisp if it was thinner.<\/p>\n

\"cp5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That really wasn\u2019t the case at all.\u00a0 It was terribly floppy and somewhat stuck to the paper so I had to pry it off with a spatula.\u00a0 I then moved it to a sheet of tinfoil figuring that was closer to a pizza dish than paper was.\u00a0 Maybe that would help.\u00a0 So I went ahead and piled on the toppings.<\/p>\n

I was told by a friend that what she does at this point is flip it over and put the other side under the grill to make it a little more crispy. I will be trying that next time as I think it would help a lot. I\u2019ll also make it slightly thicker so that I\u2019m able to actually flip it without it bending and breaking apart.<\/p>\n

\"cp6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I put tomato puree, artichoke heart, mozarella, feta and a small amount of salami.\u00a0 This is what I\u2019d usually have on the pizza\u2019s I\u2019d buy frozen, so I wanted to compare. By this time I was starving and about a minute away from eating it raw. True story.<\/p>\n

\"cp7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is perhaps where I made my next mistake. I chose to just put it back in the oven for another 15 minutes rather than putting it under the grill just until the cheese melted.\u00a0 It was still totally floppy and I think the base became even more moist than it was before I put the toppings on.\u00a0 Damn it looked delicious though!\u00a0 I moved it onto a cutting board and cut it into pieces which were far too floppy to eat by hand, but it made it look more pizza like as I ate it with my knife and fork.<\/p>\n

\"cp8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It tasted really good, which is the most important part!\u00a0 The edges were delicious and I just wish the entire base had come out like that.\u00a0 I mean it LOOKED<\/em> like pizza, it TASTED<\/em> like pizza\u2026 it just didn\u2019t FEEL<\/em> like pizza.\u00a0 That\u2019s the bit that I have to try to correct somehow.<\/p>\n

I know it will probably never be exactly like the pizza I used to have, because it\u2019s not. Still though, I want to get this whole thing down so that it\u2019s something I can easily repeat.\u00a0 I looove pizza and if I can make my own low carb friendly version, I will \u2013 a lot!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to buy a proper pizza pan this week and give it another go, I\u2019ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon I made my second attempt at making Low Carb Cauliflower Pizza. The first time it didn\u2019t turn out too bad but I mistakenly used two eggs instead of one so the bottom was a little\u2026 eggy.\u00a0 This time I tried a different approach.\u00a0 I made some mistakes but now I think I know …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[87,557,558,543],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-food","tag-food-fail","tag-low-carb","tag-the-harcombe-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}