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Keto Chicken Crust Pizza

Well, I had to try it. I’ve seen many varying recipes of this so I’m going with my own. I’m keeping it simple using only 2 ingredients (plus seasoning) for my crust. It’s not that I don’t love the pizza crust recipe I have, I’m just looking for something to lower the calorie count a bit. But this is interesting, very. It has the pizza look and flavor, but the crust was like eating chicken with pizza toppings. It was good, don’t get me wrong, I think I prefer my previous pizza recipe. I’m going to keep playing with this one maybe and see if it can improve.

Ingredients

  • 1 lb of ground lean chicken
  • 1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese
  • Italian seasoning or whatever tickles your fancy
  • Pizza sauce of choice
  • Toppings of choice

Instructions

In a mixing bowl, place your ground chicken. Put in your seasoning and mozzarella cheese and mix by hand.

Once mixed, place chicken on a pizza pan with parchment paper. Use your hands to form the shape of a pizza. I suggest 1/8 of an inch to 1/4 of an inch crust.

Sprinkle a little more seasoning on top (if desired) and put in your pre-heated oven for 20-25 minutes at 400 degrees. NOTE: the chicken will release some water. I stopped halfway and poured it off the pan.

Once crust is cooked, allow about 10 minutes to cool before topping. I think this will allow the cheese to set up and the chicken won’t absorb your sauce.

Dress up your pizza with your sauce and toppings and throw back in for another 10 minutes.

Slice it up and enjoy!

I found that this pizza yields 2 servings which is half the pizza. The chicken crust shrinks quite a bit. The pizza ends up heavy on protein so you fill up fast. 1/2 of the pizza macro looks like the following:

Nutrition: 1 net carb; 9 g of fat; 59 g of protein; 424 calories

You should definitely top your pizza with veggies and sauce as you don’t need to add more protein to it. That’s why we chose pepperoni and breakfast sausage along with our homemade alfredo sauce.

If you come up with a unique way of improving, give me a shout!

Guru Keto Pizza

Missing pizza? Well, you shall miss no more. This is probably one of the easiest pizza recipes I’ve found. It’s super simple and taste so good. The best part of it, you can customize it however you like. Personally, my favorite has been a chicken bacon ranch where I use my homemade alfredo sauce, bacon crumbles, ranch seasoning, chicken, and cheese. But like I said, the possibilities are endless. Now for the pro tip, get a pizza stone. It makes the crust so much more crispy than a typical pizza oven pan. And parchment paper is needed. The dough will not stick to the parchment paper, at all. Try to find a good low carb pizza sauce. We happen to make our own but Rao’s sauce (we find at Kroger and Costco) is great and the lowest carb I’ve found. The other great thing about this dough is that you can use as a bread stick as well. Add some cheese and make cheesy bread!!! This is a highly caloric meal. We try to limit eating pizza to once every few weeks but it is Keto friendly.

Ingredients:

2 cups of low moisture shredded mozzerella cheese

1/2 cup almond flour

Italian seasonings

Toppings of your choice

Instructions:

In a microwave safe bowl, heat the mozzarella cheese on high for 1 minute, 30 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir in your Italian seasoning (or whatever you like to season with). While still hot, put 1/2 of your almond flour in and mix well. Then add in the other half of your almond flour (total of 1/2 cups). Stir this really well and make sure all of the almond flour is blended with the cheese (see picture). On parchment paper, roll out the dough until it’s even and about 1/8″ thick. Poke holes with a fork on the rolled out dough to prevent it from bubbling up in the oven. Place on pre-heated pizza stone (leave it on the parchment paper) and cook in the oven for 8-10 minutes at 375 until golden brown. I bought this pizza stone on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3gQyqle Remove and dress with your toppings. Place back into oven for another 10 minutes. Remove and enjoy!

Nutrition facts:

These facts are for the dough only. What you top your pizza with will dictate your net carbs/calories.

Pizza cut into 8 slices

1 piece 110 calories; 2 g net carbs; 6 g fat; 8 g protein;