, photo by Emma Shevtzoff
, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE
in Recipes, Dinner, Meal Keto Fathead pizza
Ingredients
- 1ยฝ cups (6 oz.) 350 ml (170 g) mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp cream cheese
- ยพ cup (3 oz.) 180 ml (85 g) almond flour
- 1 tsp 1 tsp white wine vinegar
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- ยฝ tsp ยฝ tsp salt
- olive oil, to grease your hands
- 8 oz. 230 g fresh Italian sausage
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp butter
- ยฝ cup 120 ml unsweetened tomato sauce
- ยฝ tsp ยฝ tsp dried oregano
- 1ยฝ cups (6 oz.) 350 ml (170 g) mozzarella cheese, shredded
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400ยฐF (200ยฐC).
- Heat mozzarella and cream cheese in a non-stick pan over medium heat or in a bowl in the microwave oven. Stir until they melt together. Add the other ingredients and mix well. Tip: use a hand mixer with dough hooks.
- Moisten your hands with olive oil and flatten the dough on parchment paper, making a circle about 8" (20 cm) in diameter. You can also use a rolling pin to flatten the dough between two sheets of parchment paper.
- Remove the top parchment sheet (if used). Prick the crust with a fork (all over) and bake in the oven for 10โ15 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven.
- While the crust is baking, sautรฉe the ground sausage meat in olive oil or butter.
- Spread a thin layer of tomato sauce on the crust. Top the pizza with meat and plenty of cheese. Bake for 10โ15 minutes or until the cheese has melted.
- Sprinkle with oregano and enjoy!
Servings
The nutritional information is based on 4 servings per pizza.
The recipe has been updated after the video was made, that's why the carb count is different from the recipe that is correct.
Even if you usually wouldn't eat a pizza with a salad it adds a pleasant freshness and vitamins to the meal.
Recommended special equipment
Hand mixer with dough hooks and a rolling pin.
The best keto pizza toppings
Here we've used sausage meat like in the original recipe, but feel free to put whatever you like on it. Instead of sausage, you can use pepperoni, salami, or cooked bacon. If you have any chicken, pork, or beef leftovers in the fridge, they usually make great pizza toppings.
If you don't want meat and can eat a bit higher carb, we suggest peppers, olives, artichokes or fresh tomatoes and herbs. You can also add different kinds of cheese on tops such as feta cheese, blue cheese, or even brie.
Storing Fathead Pizza
Make extra crusts and store them for 2-3 days in the fridge or in the freezer for up to 2 months. The pizza reheats great in the microwave so if you get leftovers, and you probably will cause this is very rich, enjoy them in the next day's lunch box.
Tips for using keto pizza crusts!
This dough is so versatile! Use it as a pizza crust like in this recipe or make it into a lovely homemade garlic focaccia โ simply drench with garlic butter and bake for another minute or two. Or how about serving some keto bread twists as a snack or appetizer at your next dinner party?
What is keto Fathead dough?
Tom Naughton posted the original recipe in 2013 and it's gone viral since. The name comes from the blog Tom Naughton started while making the movie Fat Head, a comedy-documentary about food and health. Haven't seen it? Watch the trailer and the full movie here
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Hatte nicht genug Mandelmehl, mit Kokosmehl ergรคnzt. Hat gut funktioniert.
Werde ich auf jedenfalls noch mal wiederholen.
And then is there a way to get the full nutritional information: calories per serving, and then carbs, fat and protein in grams?
Two servings mean 1 pizza.
Sorry but we don't want to promote to much "counting" that's why we only have the carbs in gram.
But If you feel that this is important to you then use the formula below to calculate, a bit complicated though. ;-)
(%PROTEIN / %CARB) * gram_CARB = gram_PROTEIN
(%FAT / %CARB) * 4/9 * gram_CARB = gram_FAT
gram_CARB * 4 + gram_PROTEIN*4 + gram_FAT*9 = CALORIES
I think there is a mistake in the carb count. The dough it self is 7g net carbs but when you add the toppings (tomato sauce, sausage and cheese) there are a few more carbs added. In fact when I put it all in MFP I ended up around 13.5 net carbs per 1/2 pizza.
I really will make this over and over and loved the texture and taste of the pizza, it reheated well the next day for lunch also. Thanks for the delicious recipe :)
When I make a cheese sauce for veggies, for example, I put in a little yellow mustard for the vinegary, mustard taste against the richness of the cheese...Just a thought.
Thanks
You can use ground almonds or almond meal as you may call it. It turns out ok. I flip it halfway through to make it crispier.
Usually add some garlic powder and dried herbs also, esp if using cocnut flour(1/3 c , use 2 eggs inst of one) to make it.
Is very filling and one or two pieces suffice depending on what you put on top and what you may eat on the side. Leftovers reheat well in the oven or frying pan a day or two later.
Cheers, from Nova Scotia
I would say that's correct! :)
Half a pizza.
Y.Newbon MS,RD
yvettenewborn@earthlink.net
I'm going to try and add a little coconut flour too as that always seems to make things more dough like.
for the pizza I gave up.
If you are eating real food you may need to add more salt than when you eat fake food, which mostly has a lot of it already included.
There is some interesting info here:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/category/food/salt
Iโm struggling with the โstay under 20grams of carbsโ when it appears that I can blow over half of that in 1 meal.
For example: If Iโm trying to stay below 20g of carbs per day - this pizza, if I ate half for lunch and half for dinner, would leave me at my maxed out? Wouldnโt I then be significantly under my total fat requirements, and most likely starving?
How do you guys do this?