Low carb, high protein pizza with homemade sauce

Ever been craving pizza, but you're on a high protein or low carb diet? This is the answer to your craving - a pizza crust without wheat or yeast, but delicious and you don't need a fork to eat it.

Step 1 Gather your ingredients

For the pizza crust, you will need:

2 eggs
1 8oz package cream cheese or Neufchatel cheese, brought to room temperature
1 cup parmesan cheese - shredded or grated

9x13" baking pan
cooking spray to coat pan


For the sauce, you will need:

1 6oz can tomato paste
1/2 cup sangria
1 1/2 tablespoons dried oregano
1 1/2 tablespoons dried basil
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cloves of garlic, minced


Toppings of your choice, we used 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella and sliced pepperoni.

Comments

[turtle10]

Looks great!

A couple questions.....

1) What can I use instead of Sangria in the pizza sauce?

2) Could the crust be spread on a regular pizza pan? On parchment paper maybe?

Thanks!

[missingpluto]

I love this so much I could cry right now. You are seriously a life saver. I am on the South Beach diet and I have been craving pizza. I've been agonizing over it to the point that it's ridiculous. Do I just throw in the towel? Do I eat my pizza and try to get back on the wagon? Or do I deny myself pizza and crave it forever and ever and ever...

Now i don't have to do any of those things! THANK YOU!!! From the bottom of my heart and belly :)

[hmellenberger]

omg im on a high protein diet getting ready for weight loss surgery and wow was this a great subsitute and it didnt make me feel left out on pizza nights

[bayba792]

This is great! My whole family loved it. I loaded it up with fresh veggies and it was great for pizza night. I was amazed that you can actually hold it without it falling apart. Great Recipe Thanks!

[linda1]

I think this sound absolutely MARVELOUS! I will definately be making it. The crust sounds divine. Thanks for the recipe.

[rokitj]

YOU ARE A LIFESAVER!!! Tried this after low carb for six weeks and it was delicious and RICH. Couldn't eat more than one piece. NO eggy flavor. Will fiddle with the parmesan amount/brand to see if I can lessen the flavor intensity in the "crust". Really hit the spot!! Thanks

[SirAmazing]

Estimated Micros for this dish? thanx :)

[live it,laugh it,love it]

welllllllllllllllll i love pizza and i like the regular kind way better but its still good!

[DaPope]

I made this the other day just to see how it would turn out. It has a good flavor on it's own and I could definitely see using a flavored cream cheese to really kick it up. However it didn't hold together enough for me to hold and eat. Each "slice" has to be put on a plate and eaten with a fork, which kind of takes away from the experience. Not bad over all just still not quiet the perfect alternative.

[TheRealAnubis]

I was glad to see this land in my inbox because we have been looking for something like this for a while !

We haven't tried to make the sauce yet, we've been using "Di firenze Classico" sauces, since they have a pretty good variety at a fair price.

The first two pizzas we made had cubed ham and turkey breast (lunchmeat) on it because that's all we had to work with.
It came out fantastic, although it was a little salty.

I read online that low sodium parmesan is available, but I couldn't find it at any of the local stores.

We decided to up the ante and go with grilled chicken breast and shredded beef for the second one. The salty taste went way down, and it was very satisfying and filling. The reheat was great, because there was no bready crust to get soggy.

Next we tried a 'cheeseburger pizza', using a mix of organic ketchup and mustard from Publix (their organic ketchup is outta site) for our 'sauce', then we put fried ground beef on it, along with cheese and other toppings, etc.
Spinach and feta usually find their way onto the pizzas most of the time too.

This last batch we made (we take it to work - fast, tasty, and filling) was turkey pepperoni (70% less fat) and portabello mushrooms.

I wanted to thank you for the terrific recipe ! Now we can eat pizza anytime we want, and the topping choices will keep it from getting boring. In many ways, this pizza is better than regular pizza - especially on the reheat !

I'm adding a pic of the 3 pizzas discussed here.

A tip for the people worried about fat:

Use turkey pepperoni - 70% less fat.
Use 1/3 less fat or fat free cream cheese, which seems to work just as good.
Use quality toppings !

[individual_61]

Thought it might be useful to clear up the confusion surrounding the name 'pepperoni', raised by supersabba:

"...Pepperoni is a spicy Italian-American variety of salami (a dry sausage) usually made from cured pork and beef. It is a descendant of the spicy salamis of southern Italy, such as salsiccia Napoletana piccante, a spicy dry sausage from Naples or the soppressata fromCalabria. Pepperoni is a popular pizza topping in American-style pizzerias... The term pepperoni is a corruption of peperoni, the plural of peperone, the Italian word for pepper. To order the American version of pepperoni in Italy, one would request salame piccante or salamino piccante (hot salami, generally typical of Calabria). The Italian name for a pepperoni pizza is pizza alla diavola (with hot sausages). Throughout continental Europe, peperone is a common word for various types of capsicum, including bell peppers and a small, spicy and often pickled pepper known aspeperoncino or peperone piccante in Italy and pepperoncini or banana peppers in the U.S..."

Good old Wikipedia!

Thanks for the recipe, it looks delicious - I'm off to try it now!!! :-)

[honeydoug]

I made this yesterday , the BEST pizza I ever had!!!!! My little guy loved it to, I will make this over & over again, thank you for this recipe, I was missing eating pizza till now, AMAZING!!!!

[zephrael]

I made this today with a few modifications (used light garden veggie cream cheese and left out the sangria for the sauce) and...yeah. This was amazing. Thank you for sharing the recipe. My house still smells like pizza even several hours later. :D

[metqa]

I've had a version of this type of pizza crust( not this exact one, but one that has mozzerella in the crust) and it is very good. the crust is similar to regular pizza crust/bread.

folks worried about cholesterol and fat are barking up the wrong tree. The title very clearly states LOW CARB/HIGH PROTEIN. This is NOT a low-fat, cholesterol or "diet" recipe so get over yourselves.
If you want to know the calories use fitday or dailyplate to figure it out for your recipe, cause your total will differ depending on how your topping differ.

Besides that there is nothing inherently healthy or unhealthy about this recipe, It has natural fats from real food, is lacks wheat/gluten which some people are allergic to, Animal fats do have choleserol, but eggs have lecitihin which the body needs to dissolve and use cholesterol properly. the only thing different is the crust. It's not diet food, it's just food. And having options is a good thing even if the option is not one you would choose, someone else will find it awesome.

It's a good instructable intended for people who keep carbohydrates in their diet at a fixed or low level. I think it should be rated for what it is and not for what you wish it to be.

A very nice instructable with good pictures and clear instructions, and a tasty end product! I'm giving it 5 stars.

[static]

Where managing my blood sugar means managing my carbohydrates consumption, the title of this instructable caught my attention. However needing to managing my cholesterol, means managing my fats intake, I'm not sure a pizza with blob of cheese for the base is what I'm looking for. Some research base on the labels of the ingredients that would be in order for anyone to proceed with your recipe, but thanks for posting.

[sj0305]

This is really good; worth at least a try...I bet you'll be surprised - simple to make. Like a thin crust pizza and very hard to tell the difference btwn "cheese" crust and traditional dough crust. Try it, you'll like it...Thnx for recipe.....

[supersabba]

just a quick line:
pepperoni means red pepper, in italian. maybe the right word for the meat sausage would be "salame".
did you calculate the amount of calories you get from this pizza? it looks like it's not so diet-proof with cheese and eggs..you know..
anyway..sounds good. sure it tastes great! good job.

[normalicy]

Thanks for this. I've lost 30lbs. on Atkins so far (only way I've ever lost weight). Can't wait to try it.

[Remag1234]

I'm with Menahonie. I use Pita Bread [not the pocket type]. Makes a great personal pizza at a fraction of the cost of going to a pizza joint.

[JenniferMWilliams]

My concern is the fat . . . that crust has so much cholesterol! But then again who is worrying about that while scarfing down pizza?

[feralmonkey4]

also if you are a diabetic you need some extra fat in the diet to help with maintaining energy levels

[fairydeluxe]

eggs don't cause high cholesterol, its much healthier than having a grains based crust

[Alexthebest]

EWWW! that's not pizza!

[menahunie]

EEEWWW is right; but this should have been called pepperoni cheese custard...
I've used flour tortilas for the crust; but it is very thin crust though..
I've called them mini thin pizzas
When you gotta have real pizza I just eat some on moderation; enjoy it and wait for the next time..

[RadiantLux]

I have tried this before. I prefer the flax bread pizza crust at http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/breads/r/flaxpizza.htm

[descort]

Sounds fantastic! Thank you for sharing! :)

[lindaja]

Sounds YUMMY!!!!I must try this as I'm READY to start lo carb,after many years and many pounds!!!ANY help on here would be GREATLY appreciated!!Keep lo carb coming!!!
                                          Thanks!!!!!!!

[Christopher B.]

I can't wait to try this. I had to go gluten-free earlier this year, and let me tell you the GF pizzas you get from places like Pier 49 are crap... all rice flour, and no next-morning cold pizza because the stuff turns into thick Elmer's glue that even the dog won't touch.

[wendeehart]

This is great for us gluten-free peeps too! Thank you, thank you!

[cannmal]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love pizza and was cheating because I would make it for my family and have to have a slice. Now I can. Yeaaaa!

[lidzy]

Yippee!! Along with the apple cider vinegar 'tests' a low-carb pizza-I'll definitely be trying this probably next week...thanks!

[zascecs]

Wait, so instead of dough, you're just using cheese? hmm...

[daxx]

We're on the South Beach diet... no carbs. This way we can still have pizza without cheating!

[moxiepurple]

I used to work for Papa John's and became a pizza lover, the thin crust there was made mostly of parmesan, so I wonder if this is somewhat how they did it. I was alway curious how pizza crust was made from mostly cheese. Thank you.

[bytehead]

I would also imagine that a red wine could be substituted for the sangria. We have red wine in the house, sangria not so much.

[bytehead]

Very cool. Being diabetic, this will have to be tried!

[nativity4me]

OMG! I THINK IM IN LOVE!!!

im on a restricted diet...have to go low-no carb, to drop sugars.

i am a DIE HARD pizza fan, and have hated i cant have what the rest of my family gets to enjoy..

YOU ARE A GENIUS!
*bows down to the awesomeness that you posses!*

you should consider making a recipe book for regular foods with little carbs, id SO buy it!

thank you! ThAnK YoU! THANK YOU!! for this recipe!

MICHELLE

[Jdreamz]

Wow! I'll try it today!

I'm doing the low carb thing right now- and I'd rip your head off and spit down your neck for a hunk of pizza!

THANKS, Dax!

[causeeffect]

huh very interesting.

[LStephens2]

I've just lost 55 lbs doing low carb/high protein and this sounds PERFECT!! Thanks so much for sharing your deliciousness!!