Grain-Free, Nut-Free Pizza Crust and Stevia-Sweetened Pumpkin Sauce

Quite often when I ask my boys, "What would you like for dinner?"  the reply is "pizza or pot pie."  They love their pizza and for that reason I have really worked on this recipe for years and years making adjustments as knowledge, time and food sensitivities evolved. After all the years, we believe this pizza crust is best in its grain-free state.

I was delighted when my youngest son announced, after eating one of the commercial test-market gluten-free pizzas, that he liked my crust better than theirs.  But then he said, he liked their sauce better than mine. Well, with the sugar content and tomatoes in the competition, I didn't stand a chance, now did I? 

It's a good feeling to make those you love happy and nourish them all at the same time.

(This recipe is linked to Gluten-Free Wednesdays Blog Carnival hosted by Linda of The Gluten-Free Homemaker.)

Grain-Free, Nut-Free Pizza Crust - Allergy-friendly -No Gluten, Grains, Dairy, Nuts, Yeast, Eggs, Corn or Sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Place dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir together with a wire whisk.  Set aside.

1 cup Ancient Harvest Quinoa Flour

3/4 cup Ener-G Tapioca Flour

1 teaspoon sea salt

2 teaspoons Hain Featherweight Baking Powder 

Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl and whisk together..

1/4 cup organic extra virgin olive oil

1/2 cup plus 1 Tablespoon coconut milk

1 Tablespoon Navita's Naturals chia seed  ground into meal.(I grind chia seed into meal with a  coffee grinder or you may purchase already ground)  Or: 1 large egg
1 Tablespoons water

1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar

11 drops of stevia liquid

Combine the wet and dry ingredients with a large spoon and stir well.

 I find if the dough is sticky when I first start spreading, after a while, the dough magically behaves. 

Place pizza dough onto a baking
sheet  that has been lined with parchment paper. Spread out the dough onto the paper with a spoon.

Pictured here is a 15 inch round pan.  Usually, I use a heavy 11 x 14 inch  stainless steel baking sheet to avoid non-stick finishes.  (See note at the bottom of the page.)

Bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Remove crust from the oven and spoon sauce and add your favorite toppings on top of the crust.

Return pizza to the oven and bake again for 15-20 minutes.


Enjoy!

My favorite Meatball pizza!

Stevia-Sweetened Pumpkin Pizza Sauce

I am sharing my recipe for Pumpkin sauce along with a substitution for tomato sauce. One evening I quickly mixed this together and everyone liked it. Ah, and I wrote it down!  I share it with you, not because I have a special talent with making sauce, (Oh, dear, my Italian friends please look away!)  I share, because I know there are many who need to avoid tomatoes.  Hope this will get you started on creating a safe pizza.  Enjoy!

approximately 7 oz. of Libby's pumpkin puree (about 1/2 can)*

1/2 cup water

pinch of sea salt

1 1/2 teaspoon pizza seasoning

1/2 teaspoon oregano

7 drops liquid stevia 

*May substitute with 1/2 jar of Bionature Tomato Paste (7 ounce size)

Note:  I do not advocate using non-stick bakeware due to the chemicals that are released when the pans are heated. I threw out or gave away all of my suspicious pans except this one.  I have been using a stainless steel baking sheet for making this pizza to avoid the non-stick finish. Recently when I cleaned out my kitchen, I found this round non-stick pizza pan lurking in the oven drawer.  I decided to test my pizza recipe with it to see how it would work in a round pan just in case  my readers wanted to know. 

It was much easier to fit in a photo, so I decided to post them anyway.   Well, the crust was perfect.  Now I don't know if it is because of the holes in the bottom of the pan that allow air to reach the crust or if it  might be from the darker surface that make the crunchy crust. I would love to have your comments about how you solve these issues in your kitchen.

In case you want to learn more about the dangers of non-stick bakeware you may read more here.