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Low Carb Meaty Pizza (FM)
Recipes | December 15, 2014
This pizza is one of my absolute favorite meals lately. It’s a total comfort food, and absolutely lip-smacking, finger-licking deliciousness. It’s low in carbs so I can enjoy it at any time of the day regardless of my training. I also love how easy and fast it is to make this pizza. The only problem is that it’s so good that I can’t stop eating it. Oh well, these type of foods can be easily burned in a workout or two 😉
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*Makes 4 Portions
Ingredients for the topping:
1 lb ground beef organic and grass fed
16 oz Rao’s home made Marinara sauce (I used it in my Buffalo Pizza Recipe)
1/3 cup ricotta cheese
1/2 cup mushrooms (optional, but worth it)
10 slices of mozzarella cheese
1 clove garlic minced
1 shallot chopped
1 tbsp grape seed oil
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Ingredients for the dough:
2 1/2 cup almond flour
2 eggs
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
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Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F degree.
2. In a large bowl mix all the ingredients for the dough. I suggest to start with a wooden spoon and as the dough starts to become sticky, and then use your hands to knead the dough.
3. Grease a 9.5 inch x 13 inch baking pan with high walls or some type of casserole dish of similar size.
4. Press the dough firmly and evenly on the bottom of the pan (or dish) and place in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
5. While the dough is baking, we can prepare the sauce. Heat up the tbsp of grape seed oil in a large sauce pan over medium/high heat and add the chopped shallot. Sauté the shallot until it starts to glisten.
6. Add the ground beef and cook until it’s done (about 8-10 minutes).
7. Get rid off any excess of liquids (use a strainer if you have to) and then pour the Marinara sauce over the meat in the sauce pan, but lower the heat to medium.
8. Add the ricotta cheese, minced garlic, and mushrooms and mix it all in. Taste it and make sure it’s salty enough. You can also add some extra fresh ground pepper.
9. The dough should be ready by now (it’s always a perfect timing that the meat is ready at the same time as the dough), so just pour the meat mixture over the top of the dough allowing and inch of space around the edges. Take the mozzarella slices and place them evenly over the top.
10. Bake for another 18 – 20 min until the cheese on top melts completely.
It’s done and it didn’t take too much work or too much time. You even had enough time to clean the kitchen before the pizza was done. That’s the way I like to cook 🙂
Enjoy!!
Macros Per Portion:
Calories:Â 1,257.6
Carbs:Â 23.4 g
Net Carbs:Â 15.2 g
Fat:Â 98.7 g
Protein:Â 74.4 g
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Omg yum we have decided this is going to be part of our Xmas dinner and use turkey mince my girls will just love this 🙂 thanx for sharing with us x
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moscow, russia
I think I’m goint to cook it for my New Year’s party. So delicious! (:
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Hi Zuzka, Have you ever thought of participating in Meatless Monday? It is a movement created by the US Food Administration during WW1 to reduce the amount of meat consumed by North Americans and Europeans. If we all did it the pollution on our planet would reduce by quite a lot and so would the fat on our waste lines! There is a short but informative article on it here: http://www.meatlessmonday.com/about-us/history/
Give it a try!!
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This sounds scrumptious! I have to try it.
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lakewood, ohio, united states
Hi Zuzka!! Loving all of the recipes you’ve been posting, I can plan a whole grocery trip based off the Zuzka cookbook 🙂 and I must say its been quite delicious! I was just curious about calories….do you eat at a deficit or a surplus? Does eating at a calorie deficit still allow for muscle growth?
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love it!
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valras plage, france
REEEED MEAT!!!!!!! thanks so much!
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I am curious to the calories per serving. Due to the amount of almond flour the crust alone has over 1500 calories. Then add the eggs, the various cheeses, oil, meat and sauce, I can’t imagine how many calories this pizza has! Not that you would eat all of it in one sitting (well some of us would) it seems to be super high in calories?
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sydney, nsw, australia
I love the look of this recipe 🙂 Like Gina, I think it would be useful if you provided the overall caloric intake of your recipes and how much you consider a serving. It would definitely be easy for some of us to eat the whole thing! Perhaps you balanced a small portion of the pizza with a big bowl of salad?
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lake tahoe, nv, usa
I don’t count calories, I suggest to stick to eat slow and stick to small portion sizes 🙂 Small pizza with big salad sounds great.
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lake tahoe, nv, usa
It is high in calories, but because it’s low in carbs, these calories are easier for us to burn with our workouts. Also because it’s high in fat, you’ll eat one small piece and be pretty much full.
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I made the dough without the cheese and put peppers, onions, mushrooms & spinach in food processor to make the “filling.” A small piece is very filling! So happy when FM are filling. 🙂
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I guess this is a reward recipe so if you’ve done a good workout then give yourself a treat.
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You might get full off of one piece Zuzka, but I definitely would not! LOL.
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This looks amazing… you have such beautiful and tasty looking food. A cookbook may very well be in short order of a good and wise choice. I would buy one. And I really think an android app would be awesome too. Thanx .