Yes, you can make a vegan pizza base out of broccoli for your low-carb pizza! Somewhat unusual, but great in taste, uncomplicated and quick to prepare. Covered with your favorite ingredients, you can turn the broccoli pizza base into a delicious favorite dish full of good ingredients, but gluten-free, low-carb, paleo and naturally vegan!
This pizza ticks all the boxes!
All Italians will please forgive me for calling my broccoli base “pizza base”. It helps without complicated explanations to understand, what I mean when I talk about this pizza with its special base.
My vegan broccoli pizza base has it all: It’s gluten-free, low-carb, paleo and of course, vegan. In addition to broccoli, I use chickpea flour and flaxseed. Not to forget the taste: If the broccoli is roasted, it develops a lot of flavors, which I really like.
For the topping, you can use your favorite vegetables for your tailor-made pizza with a broccoli base. It tastes delicious with tofu, which also provides more protein to the dish. For the typical cheesy pizza taste, you can use vegan cheese, which you can easily make yourself from cashew nuts. Or you use olive oil and fine yeast flakes, which intensify your taste experience.
Since you can use (almost) all of the broccoli for your low-carb broccoli pizza base, this recipe is definitely in the spirit of “Don’t waste” and with its fantastic taste for sure a “your taste“!
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Vegan Low Carb Broccoli Pizza
Ingredients
- 3 Tbsp flax seeds
- 1 large head of broccoli (350g)
- 3 Tbsp chickpea flour
- 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1/2 tsp salt
Belag
- 100 g tomato sauce
- ¼ of a yellow bell pepper
- 100 g smoked tofu
- 3 cherry tomatos
- 1 handfull arugula or arugula sprouts
- 1 tsp nutritional yeast
- 2 Tbsp cold pressed olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 230°C (446°F) convection heating
- Grind flax seeds in a food processor. (takes about 2-3 minutes).
- Cut off the hard pieces from the broccoli stalk and cut the rest into chunks. Add the broccoli pieces to the ground flax seeds in the food processor. Perhaps you'll have to stop one or two times to push down the pieces that have not been processed yet (takes in total about 1 minute). Alternatively use a grater to grate the broccoli.
- Mix the grated/shredded broccoli, ground flax seeds, chickpea flour and salt with your hands. Now form a pizza base with it on a baking sheet set on a baking tray. Then bake for 15 Minutes. In the mean time, cut the bell pepper into strips, the smoked tofu into cubes and the cherry tomatoes into slices.
- Take the broccoli pizza base out of the oven. Evenly spread the tomato sauce onto the pizza base and then place the pizza toppings. Bake for an other 10-15 minutes.
- Serve topped with some arugula (sprouts) and nutritional yeast and drizzle some cold pressed olive oil on top for taste
