Low Carb Pepperoni Pizza

bizi · 02-24-2007, 08:57 PM

I actually made this receipe tonight and it was verry good, even hubby liked it!

Hope you enjoy
bizi

Low Carb Pizza

From Laura Dolson,

Quote:

This is a variation of my flax meal focaccia bread, which is a dense "food for you" type of bread. It makes a pizza that is about 12 inches in diameter, although you can spread it thinner and larger if you want.

INGREDIENTS:

1 and 1/2 C flax seed meal, I used golden
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon oregano or (basil worked well)
Sweetener to equal about 1 T. of sugar (1 and 1/2 packet of splenda)
3 Tablespoons of oil
3 eggs
`1/2 C water

PREPARATION:

Preheat oven to 425 F.

Mix dry ingredients together.
Add wet ingredients, and mix very well.
Let sit for about 5 minutes to thicken.
Spread on pan (I put it on a silicon mat or greased parchment paper). I used a deep dish stone with pam
Bake for 15-18 minutes until cooked through, Browned on top then
Cover with pizza sauce, more seasonings to taste
2 cups finely shredded italian cheese, (used 5 kind)
add pepperoni or other precooked meat toppings and veggies(I used onions, peppers, sun dried tomatoes)
cook at least 10 more minutes until they are done.
serves 2-3 people, very filling!

Nutritional Analysis: Whole crust has 7 grams of effective carbohydrate, plus 52 grams fiber, 47 grams protein, and 130 grams fat.

froglady · 02-26-2007, 12:51 PM

Should have taken a better look the first time...this sounds good! Could make it all veggie & good cheese. Just 1 or 2 small slices, hubby will eat the rest. Nice big, full of good veggies, salad to go with it.

befuddled2 · 02-26-2007, 01:07 PM

What is flax seed meal and what part of grocery store do I get it in?

befuddled2

bizi · 02-26-2007, 07:20 PM

flax meal
Even the most health conscious consumers have taste buds to please. Flax meal’s crunchy texture and nutty flavor team up with it’s tremendous health benefits to make flax meal almost “too good to be true”.
Stir a serving of flaxmeal into a glass of water or your favorite juice, or add to a recipe. When you add flax meal to your cooking you add a very pleasant taste.
Because of it’s high fat content flax meal can stand in for all of the oil or shortening called for in a recipe. If a recipe calls for 1 tbsp. of oil, use 3 tbsp. of flaxmeal to replace the oil. A 3:1 substitution ratio. When flax meal is used instead of oil, baked goods brown more rapidly.
Vegetarians can substitute a flax meal mixture for eggs in selected recipes. The formula is 1 tbsp flax meal plus 3 tbsp water. Let sit for 1 – 2 minutes and add to recipe as you would an egg.
A delicious hot cereal can be easily made by mixing 2 tbsps of flaxmeal with a half cup boiling water and a little honey. Or flax meal can be added to any hot or cold cereal to make it that much more healthy.

FLAXMEAL- IT REALLY ISN’T “TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!”

Flax meal has been a part of human diets for thousands of years in Asia, Africa and more recently in North America. Plains Products is dedicated to providing the highest quality flax meal products to health conscious people wanting to take advantage of this wonderful food.

Increasingly consumers are seeking “functional foods” like flax meal to promote health benefits as part of their regular diets. Flax meal’s “function” is to add essential omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, lignans, as well as vitamins and minerals.

Flax seeds can be used whole but to utilize the full value of flax it’s much better to process,by milling or grinding the seeds into a meal. Also there are two different varieties of flax, brown and golden. They both add a tremendous health benefit to your diet but the golden variety tastes much better. Plains Products flax meal is a premium ground, golden flax variety.

Got this off a forum:
k, heres a bunch of flax info for you (i have long been a flaxfan):
dont bother with the flax oil at all becuase, like someone above mentioned, you don't get any fiber out of it and flax seeds are chock full of fiber.
i dont think you need buy whole flax seeds either tho - just buy pre-ground flax seeds from someone like bob's red mill (google them) or arrowhead mills or something. any whole foods or health store (or trader joes) will def carry them. you can sprinkle this 'flour' over yogurt or into soups, etc. on salads sometimes it brings an almost-parmesan like quality, too. on anything.
in baking, its awesome. i just exchange about 1/4 of the flour (hopefully whole wheat, right?) with the ground flax with no problems. i do not, however, know what the heat of baking's effect on the nutritional benefits of flax is. be wary. better off going on yogurt, etc. for the health benefits i'd say.
also, if you are really trying to get more omega 3's, you really are better of eating a nice, cold water fish like salmon. the type of omega 3 in cold water fish is, for lack of a more lengthy, boring science conversation, much more readily bioavailable. in short, our bodies have to work the omega 3 from flax a whole lot more and, in the end, gets less actually from it, than from a fish.

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nancy-h · 02-27-2007, 07:14 PM

Bizi,

The whole thing on flax sounds great but how do you measure calories, as in the calories in the pizza recipe?

Nancy

bizi · 02-27-2007, 08:39 PM

Dear Nancy,
Oh sweetie....
This is not a low calorie dish it is a "low carb" pizza
sorry I will look up calorie count for you:

2Tablespoons of flax meal has 60 calories, 4.5 grams fat and 4 grams of carbs and 4 grams of fiber.
Because of the good kind of fat and the high fiber it has no carbs for those counting carbs and that is why it is a very attractive food item.

I figured the calorie count of the flax for the whole pizza is 720 calories.
bizi

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