Gluten Free Pizza Crust With Zucchini Sauce

Try not to be too turned off by the sight of a green and yellow pizza?
We have pizza a lot in our house. Well, "pizza", hah, if we can really call it that. We buy an overpriced box of gluten free pizza crusts from the health food store, stow it away in the freezer for Friday or Saturday night when nobody wants to cook (lately, nobody ever wants to cook), and then top it with a homemade cashew "alfredo" sauce, throw on some veggies or chicken, and call it good.

Lately, all I can think about, is tomato sauce. Tomato sauce on noodles, tomato sauce on pizza crust, tomato sauce in a big spoon on its way into my mouth. Sadly, tomato is one of those things on the no-no list for those of us that suffer from fructose malabsorption. Not only that, but my babies can't have it because of their citrus allergies (Eleanore is seeming to grow out of hers, just as Charlie's is worsening).

I'm sick of making an alfredo sauce. The taste has become repetitive and boring, the thought of eating another slice of pizza coated with the stuff makes me lose my appetite altogether.

Also, we're cutting costs. Part of that means... we're done using baking mixes, and we're done buying pre-made anything. I've been avoiding baking from scratch for awhile now, not wanting to put in the extra effort (I'm tiiired), but its gotten to the point where its either we make it from scratch, or we starve.

Fine, fine. I'm up for the challenge. I've got two babies, a growing belly, 9 million food allergies, the never ending need for a nap, but- really... I love it.


My first challenge. Gluten free pizza crust. Usually if I were to make this "from scratch", I'd just use some of Pamela's baking mix and that would be that. But having recently bought a bag of every kind of gluten free flour that I could get my hands on, I decided to roll up my sleeves, put my apron on, and get started. No time to waste.

...would you believe, that on my first attempt, it was the most delicious gluten free pizza crust that I had ever tasted? That's rare. Very rare. For me at least. Even Christopher, through loaded chipmunk cheeks, made a comment about how it was the best pizza he had ever eaten. He says that about everything I make, bless his heart, but somehow this time I think he might have meant it.

So now I'll share it with you.

Tia's Gluten Free Pizza Crust Recipe
-1/2 cup white corn flour
-1/2 cup white rice flour
-1/2 cup sorghum flour
-3/4 cup brown rice flour
-1 cup tapioca flour
-1 teaspoon sea salt
-2 teaspoons xanthan gum

-3/4 cup warm water
-2 1/2 teaspoons yeast
-2 eggs, beaten
-2 teaspoons lemon juice
-2 tablespoons olive oil (+1 tablespoon for later, set aside in small bowl)
-2 tablespoons sugar

I started by preheating my oven as low as it would go, which is 170. I did this so that my dough would have a nice warm place to rise once I was finished making it. I turned the oven off just a few minutes before putting the dough in.

For one large thick pizza, line one cookie sheet with parchment paper. For two thinner crust medium sized pizzas, line two sheets with parchment paper.

Get out two bowls. One large, one medium.

Start making your dough, by mixing all of your flours, sea salt, and xanthan gum, in the large bowl. Gently mix them all together with a whisk, and then set both the whisk and the flour aside.

Fill a glass measuring cup with warm (as hot as my sink will allow) water, pour in yeast, whisk until frothy.

In medium bowl, mix beaten eggs, lemon juice, oil, and sugar together. After those ingredients have been well combined, add yeast water. Gently mix together with a spoon. The ingredients should come together perfectly, and just barely stick to your fingers. If you're making one large thick pizza, roll dough into one ball, and place in the center of your parchment paper lined cookie sheet. If you're making two medium sized pizzas, split dough in half, and do the same.

I'm not fancy, I don't use fancy tools. I simply dipped my fingers in olive oil (thats why I had you set some aside earlier), and then smoothed the dough out into a pizza crust shape with my finger tips. The end result was perfect. Work slowly, have patience, and your end result will probably be perfect too.

Put into your warm oven, set the timer for 40 minutes, let rise.

After the 40 minutes is up, pull them out, preheat oven to 350, and then bake your crust for 10 minutes.

Tia's Zucchini Pizza Sauce Recipe
-2 carrots, peeled
-2 large zucchini
-1 teaspoon garlic powder
-2 leaves basil
-1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
-splash of water, just a splash
-salt and pepper to taste (I used quite a bit)

This recipe is fructose free. For some of you, that means nothing. For the few of you that might have stumbled here from doing a google search, this is beeg time! *keep in mind that with fructose malabsorption, everyone has their own cans and cannots. Zucchini is tolerated by most, but not all. Proceed with caution :)

In order to make a smooth sauce, you'll need either a food processor, or a heavy duty blender (Vita Mix, woot woot!). If you don't have either of those, try grating your carrot and zucchini? I'd love to know how that turns out.

So. Puree all of your ingredients, minus the salt and pepper. You don't need very much water all, if any. Zucchini holds a lot of water in itself, but if your blender just isn't budging, toss in the right amount of liquid to get things moving.

Cook on medium heat, adding in your salt and pepper as you go, until your sauce turns the shade of green that you're looking for. I think I cooked mine for about 20 minutes.

And then from here... I think you know how to put yourself together a pizza, right? Hee hee.

On ours, we sprinkled soy cheese, mushrooms, and black olives (typically I hate black olives, but lately I can't get enough of them).


I've made this pizza crust twice now, and both times, it turned out amazing. I didn't need to add a single drop of liquid, or the slightest sprinkle of flour. We're one happy family.