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Plan Z Phase: This is a Z3 (ZReboot) recipe.

We can’t take credit for this delicious recipe. Dieter Angela adapted this from the blog, My Life Cookbook, and we’re so grateful she did. Angela writes:

“I love pizza, so I was looking for alternatives. I was disappointed to find cauliflower crust is not much lower in carbs than a traditional pizza crust. I came across that recipe for a meatzza crust and was pleasantly surprised. It satisfied my pizza craving, and I could have a slice of pizza without needing a fork! For those pizza cravings, here’s a recipe for a meatzza crust.”

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground turkey
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3 grissini breadsticks crushed into breadcrumbs
• 2 Tbl of grated parmesan cheese
• 1 tsp Italian seasonings
• 2 tsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• ½ cup of low carb sauce (like Specialty Selects Marinara, or a sauce with no added sugar in the ingredients)
• 1 cup mozzarella, shredded

Optional Toppings:

• Angela used diced tomatoes instead of marinara, mozzarella, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms, and onions
• You could also use toppings like pepperoni, sausage, peppers, spinach, cooked bacon – whatever you like!

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl mix the ground turkey, egg, crushed grissini sticks, parmesan cheese, Italian seasonings, salt, pepper and garlic.

Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicon mat. Take the mixed turkey mixture and form it into a pizza crust. Make it fairly thin so it won’t taste too “meaty.”

Bake for about 20 minutes, but start checking it after 15 minutes. The cooking time will depend on how thin you make the crust. You want the turkey to be cooked through, but you don’t want the crust to be too brown because you will bake it again once you put the toppings on.

Take the crust out of the oven, and cover with sauce and then cheese. For a relatively low carb sauce I like Aldi’s Specialty Selects marinara sauce. You can use whatever you want but make sure the carbs are low as tomato sauces can have a lot of sugar in them. Then, add the toppings you want to your liking. Bake for another 5 minutes, then place it under the broiler to brown the top (if you want your cheese brown and crispy).

Enjoy!

Angela