cauliflower... pizza?!

I once went to a potluck where someone made what I thought was pizza, and I ate it, and it was delicious, and then they told me the crust was made out of cauliflower and my eyes just about popped out of my head.

So, the first chance I got, I tried to recreate this with Jonah. So the first thing is that the recipe requires riced cauliflower, or basically cauliflower put through a ricer. We did not have a ricer. Trader Joe's conveniently sells bags of riced cauliflower, but we did not encounter it in the store, because it wasn't in stock. So I think we chopped it up and food-processed it. Which might have been our first mistake.

Regardless, this is the recipe we followed - except with less cheese and more panko in the crust, changed the toppings to include sliced mozzarella on top, substituted kumato tomatoes for grape tomatoes, and omitted garlic and added other spices to the sauce. Here are the ingredients all assembled:



Naturally, since we were already having mozzarella and tomatoes, my natural inclination was to add basil and make it a caprese pizza. Our only mistake was to add the basil leaves pre-bake, and they wilted in the heat to become this unappetizing green.



So, the interesting part was that the pizza crust tasted like polenta. The not-so-great part was that it didn't taste like pizza crust, likely because it was spread too thick. Maybe we have to use a pizza stone, or pre-bake the crust. One thing I do know though, is that we'll be trying this again!