Make something special for dinner with this pizza made using cauliflower as the crust. Yes, cauliflower the vegetable.  Cauliflower and Mozzarella cheese are blended, then pre-baked into a crust. Then top with your favorite pizza toppings and bake. This pizza turns out very well and if no-one was watching you, they might not know that they were eating their vegetables with that pizza you served them for dinner. Secret veggie-agent-cooking. Shhh.

The first time you make this cauliflower pizza crust it may seem like a lot of work. Yet, like lots of things in life, once you get the grasp of doing it, you’ll find it’s a piece of cake.

So, first things first. Here’s what you’ll need:

• 1 pound (about 2 cups) “riced” cauliflower (“riced” – finely chopped to about this size of a grain of rice)†
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese, grated
• 1 cup Mozzarella cheese. grated
• 1 tsp McCormick Onion Powder
• 1 tsp McCormick Garlic Powder
• 1/4 tsp McCormick Oregano Leaves
• 1/4 tsp McCormick Basil Leaves
• Pinch of McCormick White Pepper
• 1/4 cup corn meal

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Microwave riced cauliflower in a covered dish on high for about 4 minutes.††
3. Let stand covered for 1 minute.
4. Line a large baking pan or other flat dish with paper towel and spread out the cooked cauliflower and allow to cool for about 10 minutes.
5. Place cauliflower into a large mixing bowl and add the remaining ingredients. Mix well and form into a ball.
6. Line a round pizza pan with parchment paper then form the cauliflower dough into a round pizza crust and place on the pan.
7. Place a cookie cooling rack in the oven and slide the pizza crust on the parchment paper onto the rack and bake for 15 to 18 minutes until lightly browned.
8. Remove crust from oven.  Let cool for 10 minutes.
9. Carefully flip crust over. Do this by placing round pizza pan on top of cooled crust and flip cookie cooling rack. Top with your favorite pizza sauce and toppings.
10. Return to oven and bake for 10 to 12 minutes until cheese is melted.  Cook longer for a crisper crust or cook on a pizza stone.
11. Remove, slice, and eat white hot but not too hot!

† A food processor makes this step a breeze. Or you can check your grocer to see if they carry a prepared package of riced cauliflower. But it’s really not that hard to chop a cauliflower with a plain old kitchen knife.
††Microwave ovens vary so watch as you cook as yours might cook faster).
Pictures of step of preparing the Cauliflower pizza crust:

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