Low carb pizza? Yes, it really does exist. Our favorite fast food has made the leap to healthy eating. Finally! But how is a low carb pizza crust supposed to work? You can find delicious pizza recipes without flour and carbohydrates here.
In between, the desire simply overcomes you. No good thoughts, no distractions and no healthy food will help. A pizza is needed!
However, conventional pizzas are known to contain a lot of flour.
This is responsible for so many carbohydrates ending up in the dough.
I'm just going to pass on that. Because there are plenty of recipes for Low carb pizza basethat are really delicious. My favorite recipes for pizza without flour I would like to present to you today.
So if you want to treat yourself to a really delicious meal without a guilty conscience, you should definitely try low carb pizza recipes.
Those who pay attention to their diet, simply make the pizza itself. But not a normal one, but one with a delicious Dough for pizza Without flour.
You will learn in this post
- What are the advantages of a flourless pizza?
- What you should know about low carb pizza crust baking
- The best recipes for low carb pizza without flour
- Low carb pizza base with cottage cheese
- Pizza with tuna base
- Low carb cauliflower pizza base
- Pizza base with almond flour and cream cheese
- Low carb pizza base from zucchini
- Sweet low carb pizza dough with strawberries
- Low carb pizza with yeast
- Sweet low carb pizza with watermelon
- Pizza dough with broccoli
- Good to know: Keep this in mind if you want to lose weight with low carb
What are the advantages of a flourless pizza?
Yes, all well and good. But what's really great about a low carb pizza crust? First of all, of course, that the flourless pizza contains almost no carbohydrates.
This is a great advantage for anyone who wants to lose weight. But that doesn't mean you now have a free pass and can stuff yourself with our low carb pizza. 😉
Because if you really want to lose weight, you have to keep an eye on your calorie intake. And of these there are also Low carb pizza base not so little.
But if you make your own pizzas, you know what's in the dough.
So you can consciously save calories or replace other rather unhealthy ingredients. For example, we use pizza dough without yeast in all of our recipes. Why? Well, I don't tolerate yeast very well and it gives me a stomach ache.
If you feel the same way, then these pizzas are good for you. Or if it may be sometimes carbs, then taste times a tarte flambée dough without yeast!
It's also a fact that cooking for yourself is generally healthier. This is because you have complete control over what ends up in your recipe and how fresh the ingredients actually are.
The combination of lots of fats and lots of carbs is not exactly fitness friendly.
But luckily there's a delicious alternative. Or rather 9, we just make a low carb pizza :)
What you should know about low carb pizza crust baking
If you have never made a pizza without carbs, then you should read these tips carefully and of course implement them.
- Preheat the oven! Crispy and delicious it will only, When the oven is hot is. Otherwise, you risk a dough that melts or bakes unevenly.
- Cheek the floor and the covering always extra. The trick with a crisp Low carb pizza is that the base is pre-baked. You take it out of the oven, top it and put it in the oven again.
- Less is more. This applies to both the dough and the topping. One Low carb pizza dough is thin. The same goes for the toppings. So American pizzas are not a model for our pizza without carbohydrates :)
- Vegetables make the Low carb pizza watery. Therefore, very watery parts are simply removed or omitted, such as large tomato slices or zucchini. In the dough with cauliflower, for example, use only the florets and not the stalk of the vegetable.
- Low carb pizza tastes also cold very tasty! We could not resist at the shooting and have the dough after baking and photographing simply tasted cold. It was so delicious that we have simply waived the reheating.
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The best recipes for low carb pizza without flour
But of course it also works without ready-made baking mixes.
Because such a low carb pizza dough is ready quickly - much faster than you think.
A normal pizza dough must first rest. This is because the yeast needs time to rise. At Low carb pizza recipes you save that :)
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If you like to cook for yourself and are careful about low carbs, then you will find many more recipes in the Happy Carb Cookbook . To be precise, there are 150 low carb recipes that are really delicious. I also got the inspiration for the pizzas from the book. The book is by blogger Bettina Meiselbach, who herself is an enthusiastic low-carber and has thus lost 60 kg.
But even if you do not want to lose weight or do not eat low carb permanently, the book is worth a clear recommendation. You will find a lot of variety and what I like so much: recipes that can be prepared quickly.
I present you now my 9 favorite recipes for low carb pizza. Two of them are desserts rather than a main course - but pizza is pizza 🙂 .
The pizza base with ricotta
Super easy and in a few minutes this pizza is ready. Use low-fat quark if you want to increase the protein content in the recipe.
Low carb pizza base with cottage cheese
Ingredients
For the dough
- 60 g Curd
- 1 Egg
- 60 g Pizza cheese grated
For the topping
- 3 EL Tomato paste
- 1 Handful Arugula
- 200 g Prosciutto
- Salt and pepper
Equipment
- Bowl
- Baking tray
- Oven
Anleitung
- Preheat the oven to 180° and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Mix the curd, egg and cheese in a bowl. You can do this easily with a fork. Or you can use a blender.
- Spread the dough in a round shape on the baking paper.
- Bake the dough for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, mix the tomato paste with a little water. Spread the tomato paste on the dough.
- Bake the pizza for another 15 minutes and then top with arugula and prosciutto.
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The tuna pizza base
Low carb pizza made with tuna? Yup. And it even tastes really good. The base is pretty thin and because it's baked, it doesn't even taste that extreme of fish.
At first, the low carb pizza tuna dough sounds very unusual. But that doesn't matter - it really is unbeatable in terms of taste. The fish provides an extra load of protein in the pizza dough. :)
Pizza with tuna base
Ingredients
For the dough
- 2 Cans Tuna
- 2 Eggs
For the topping
- 25 g Tomato paste
- 40 g Tomatoes strained
- 1 Handful Basil
- 1 Pinch Oregano
- 1 Pinch Salt and pepper
- 30 g Cheese grated
- 50 g Mushrooms
- 1/2 Onion
- 1 Handful Arugula
Equipment
- Bowl
- Oven
- Baking tray
- Knife and board
Anleitung
- Preheat the oven to 200° and line a tray with baking paper.
- Pour the juice from the tuna cans. Put the fish in a bowl and soak up the liquid with kitchen paper.2 cans tuna
- Now add the eggs and a little salt to the tuna pizza dough.2 eggs
- Mix the fish and eggs and spread the mixture on the baking paper.
- Make sure the tuna pizza dough is nice and flat.
- Bake the Low carb pizza 15 minutes.
- In the meantime, prepare the pizza sauce. Mix tomato paste and tomato sauce with basil and oregano. If you like, you can also add garlic. Season the sauce with salt and pepper.25 g tomato paste, 40 g tomatoes strained, 1 handful of basil, 1 pinch of oregano, 1 pinch salt and pepper
- Take the dough out of the oven and brush it with the homemade pizza sauce.
- Garnish with cheese. Cut mushrooms and onion into small pieces. Put them on the pizza dough and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.30 g cheese grated, 50 g mushrooms, 1/2 onion
- Finally, add the arugula on top.1 handful arugula
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The low carb pizza base from cauliflower
Cauliflower should not be missing in any low carb kitchen. It is very popular as a substitute for rice. But you can also make pizza without carbohydrates.
The advantage of cauliflower in the Low carb pizza is that you not only Carbohydrates savings, but also Calories. In addition, the vegetable provides vitamins and fiber.
The perfect recipe for those who do not eat enough vegetables.
Sounds strange, but tastes really incredibly delicious! :) Instead of tomato paste, we rely this time on crème fraîche. You can the pizza base but of course as you want. To the cauliflower flavor fits from yogurt to tomato paste actually as good as anything.
If you wonder how a pizza dough with cauliflower tastes or do not like cabbage: you can hardly taste it from the recipe. The taste is hidden by the cheese :)
How to mix your own pizza seasoning!
Low carb cauliflower pizza base
Ingredients
For the dough
- 250 g Cauliflower
- 2 Eggs
- 200 g Cheese grated
For the topping
- 2-3 TL Crème fraîche
- 1/2 red onion
- 1 Spring onion
- 1 red bell bell pepper
Equipment
- Food processor
- Bowl
- Baking tray
- Oven
Anleitung
- Preheat the oven to 180°.
- Rasp the cauliflower very finely. It should look like grains of rice.
- Mix the eggs with 2/3 of the cheese and the cauliflower. Salt the mixture lightly.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread the dough on it.
- Bake the cauliflower pizza dough for about 20 minutes.
- Low carb pizza topping and then another 10 minutes off in the oven.
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Almond flour and cream cheese in pizza dough
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Vegetarian and wonderfully colorful comes this low carb pizza.
The low carb pizza base with Almond flour* and cream cheese is slightly softer compared to the pizzas with cheese dough. In addition, thanks to Baking powder* even a little fluffy.
Tip: Almond flour* can simply be replaced by grated almonds* replace. This saves money. However, it is important that the almonds are very finely grated. However, this makes the dough higher in fat.
Pizza base with almond flour and cream cheese
Ingredients
For the dough
- 100 g Herb cream cheese
- 2 Eggs
- 1 TL Baking powder
- 2 EL Almond flour
As a topping
- 1 Peppers (green, orange and red)
- 1 red onion
- 4 EL Pizza cheese
- 2-3 EL Corn
- Salt and pepper
Equipment
- Bowl
- Mixer
- Baking tray
- Oven
Anleitung
- Put all the ingredients for the dough in a bowl and mix them with a mixer. Spread the dough on a baking tray lined with baking paper. The dough is very liquid - don't be surprised.
- The low carb dough goes into the oven for half an hour at 180° top and bottom heat.
- In the meantime, prepare the vegetables. Chop the tomatoes, peppers and onion.
- Take the dough out of the oven. Turn it over and prick the top with a fork.
- Spread tomato paste on the pizza. Now comes the cheese, then the vegetables and corn.
- Put the low carb pizza with vegetables in the oven for another 10 minutes so that the cheese melts.
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The low carb zucchini pizza
We love zucchini. But who doesn't? At the latest now, when you learn that you can make a pizza out of zucchini, surely you are also excited about it? The advantage is that zucchini has hardly any flavor of its own.
And in addition, 100 grams of zucchini have only 20 calories. So baking pizza without flour is even more fun.
PS: From zucchini you can also make great Low carb pizza appetizers do! :)
Low carb pizza base from zucchini
Ingredients
- 1 Zucchini
- 1 Egg
- 50 g Pizza cheese
- 50 g Parmesan
Equipment
- Vegetable grater
- Bowl
- Baking tray
- Oven
Anleitung
- Preheat the oven to 200° and line the baking tray with baking paper.
- Wash and grate the zucchini. Put the pieces in a bowl and salt them. Let the zucchini stand for at least 10 minutes. The salt will now draw the water out of the vegetables.
- Squeeze the zucchini very firmly with your hands and pat dry with the paper towel.
- Mix the shavings with egg, parmesan and cheese.
- Spread the low carb pizza dough thinly on a baking sheet. Put it in the oven.
- After 20 minutes the pizza dough is ready. Top it according to your imagination and then put it in the oven again for 15 minutes.
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Sweet pizza without flour for dessert
If you have a sweet tooth like me, it's often really hard to find low carb desserts. Most of the time, you end up with plain yogurt with fruit.
But because that gets boring after time, I made a sweet low carb pizza dough with Cinnamon* for you. It's perfect for topping with berries. However, you can use any fruit of your choice.
Important ingredients that you need for the recipe, I have picked out for you. You can find these three on Amazon.
- Almond flour
- Coconut flour*
- Psyllium husks*
Sweet low carb pizza dough with strawberries
Ingredients
- 35 g Almond flour
- 10 g Coconut flour
- 60 g chopped flaxseed
- 1 EL Psyllium husks
- 1 EL Chia seeds
- 1 Pinch Cinnamon
- 140 ml Warm water
- 1 Cup Strawberries
- 2 EL Blueberries
- 50 g Greek yogurt
- 1 TL Lemon zest and lemon juice
Equipment
- Bowl
- Baking tray
- Oven
Anleitung
- Preheat the oven to 180°.
- Put almond flour, coconut flour, flaxseed, chia and psyllium husks in a bowl.
- Now add the warm (!) water and mix and knead the ingredients into a dough. If the dough is too dry, add a little more water.
- Let the dough rest for 5 minutes. Roll out the low carb pizza as thin as possible.
- Put the low carb pizza dough in the oven. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until lightly browned. A little crispy on the outside and still juicy on the inside - that's perfect.
- Take the dough out of the oven. Let it cool a little. In the meantime you can chop the fruit.
- Spread the low carb dough with natural yogurt and place the berries on top. Looks mega, doesn't it? The cinnamon in the dough, the yogurt and the fruit harmonize wonderfully.
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Low carb pizza with chickpea and almond flour
If you want a pizza without flour, which is very close to the ordinary pizza, you will love this recipe. Because like regular pizza, this dough is prepared with yeast.
However, this requires that you allow a little more time. The yeast must rest for at least half an hour before the dough can go into the oven.
The ingredients are a bit more unusual and therefore more expensive. But the pizza is really delicious for it :)
Low carb pizza with yeast
Ingredients
- 25 g Chickpea flour
- 25 g Almond flour
- 20 g chopped flaxseed
- 45 ml Warm water
- 1/2 TL Dry yeast
Equipment
- Whisk
- Bowl
- Baking tray
- Oven
Anleitung
- Dissolve the yeast in warm water and stir until well dissolved. Mix the chickpea flour, flaxseed, salt and almond flour.
- Add half a tablespoon of olive oil to the yeast. And now the flour.
- Cover the dough with a cloth and put it in a warm place. Preferably on the heater, so the yeast can rise in peace. Let the dough rise for at least half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180°. Roll out the dough very thin and then it's in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
- When the pizza is ready, take it out of the oven and top it.
- And then the low carb pizza crust goes into the oven for another 10 minutes.
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For hot days: melon pizza
If you like snacking and don't eat enough fruit, you'll love this version of low carb pizza. Instead of replacing the flour in the base with other ingredients, we just grab a slice of watermelon.
So the pizza comes without carbohydrates. And with very few calories. In addition, it is simply a real eye-catcher at any girls' night out.
Fancy some more low carb? Try this: Braised cucumber recipe with salmon!
Sweet low carb pizza with watermelon
Ingredients
- 2 Slices Watermelon
- 4 EL Natural yogurt
- 1 Handful Berries and fruit of your choice
- Mint as decoration
Equipment
- Knife
- Board
Anleitung
- Put the melon slice on a plate and spread it with yogurt. This is best done with a spoon.
- And now fruits are added to the low carb pizza as the mood takes you. You are already ready.
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Low carb pizza base with broccoli
And because I myself am an absolute broccoli opponent, this low carb pizza recipe comes at the very end.
Withheld I would like but of course not. Because who likes broccoli, will also love this pizza without flour.
Pizza dough with broccoli
Ingredients
- 1 Broccoli
- 2 Eggs
- 60 g Pizza cheese
- 2 EL Black olives
- 1 Handful Cocktail tomatoes
- 1/2 Onion
- 3-4 EL Basil pesto
- Salt and pepper
Equipment
- Food processor
- Bowl
- Baking tray
- Oven
Anleitung
- Preheat the oven to 200°.
- Wash the broccoli and divide the florets into small pieces. Now put the broccoli in the food processor until it becomes about the same as rice.
- Put the broccoli in a bowl and put it in the oven for 5 minutes. This way the liquid will evaporate a little. Let cool in 1 minute.
- Using a kitchen towel, squeeze the liquid out of the vegetables until a dry mass remains.
- Now add salt, pepper, eggs and cheese.
- Stir well and spread on a baking sheet.
- Bake the low carb pizza crust for 10 to 15 minutes until lightly browned around the edges.
- Top the pizza and then let it bake in the oven for another 10 minutes.
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Good to know: Keep this in mind if you want to lose weight with low carb
Have you heard that you can lose weight by reducing your carbohydrate intake? That's true. On the one hand, this is because your metabolism changes. On the other hand, it's also because you are now more or less forced to cook for yourself.
So you automatically avoid processed foods that are packed with sugar and wheat flour.
It only becomes dangerous when you switch back from the low carb pizza and vegetable-rich diet to your old eating habits.
You will only ever succeed in losing weight if you Change your diet permanently.
Our Personalized nutrition plan "We Go Fit" help. Simply enter "lose weight" or "clean eating" and low carb. We'll create a plan that's just right for you and provide you with the right recipes every day.
Because the fact is: if you eat exactly the right number of calories in a healthy and balanced way, you will quickly see lasting results on the scales.
Our conclusion
Whether hearty or sweet: pizza without flour simply always goes. The low carb pizza base is a great alternative to the normal white flour version. Perfect for those who eat without carbohydrates and can not keep their hands off pizza :)
Our favorite: the low carb pizza with almond flour. In terms of taste, it comes closest to the pizza as we all know it.
Fancy more low carb recipes? Check out our Roll or Protein bread over.
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