Chef John’s Cauliflower Pizza Crust

Description

If you’d never heard about pizza before and someone served this to you, I think you’d really enjoy it. Texture aside, the flavor of this final product was very pizza-like, and I’ll be doing further experiments to be sure.

Ingredients

  • 1 head cauliflower, cored and separated into florets
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 ounces fresh goat cheese
  • ½ ounce finely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Puree cauliflower in a food processor until finely ground.
  3. Cook ground cauliflower
  4. water
  5. and salt together in a skillet over medium-high heat until fragrant and most of the water evaporates
  6. 5 to 6 minutes. Cool completely.
  7. Transfer cauliflower to the center of a clean dish towel. Wrap and squeeze tightly to remove all excess moisture. You should have about 1 1/2 cups cauliflower pulp.
  8. Stir cauliflower
  9. goat cheese
  10. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
  11. egg
  12. and cayenne pepper together in a bowl to form a soft dough. Gather dough into a ball and place in the center of the prepared baking sheet. Press dough into circle about 1/4-inch thick.
  13. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and set
  14. about 40 minutes. Cool and turn crust over before topping.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 45 mins

Total Time: 1 hr

Servings: 4

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