The Health Benefits of Pizza

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let’s discuss the health benefits of pizza now is it possible to have some health benefits from pizza yes but you have to do the healthy version of a pizza okay a keto pizza which i’m going to give you the recipe now my favorite food of all time is pizza i’ve eaten a lot of pizza and i remember growing up feeling so bloated when i would eat the entire pizza i’d feel sluggish and tired but i didn’t care because the taste was so delicious so fast forward when i started keto in low carb i wasn’t willing to give up pizza so i searched out a really good recipe and i did a video on pizza and i will put that down below but i’m going to give you a summary of that video today but what would be the health benefits of pizza well if you do the version i’m going to recommend you’re going to go low carb okay and when you go low carb you’re going to actually lower your insulin when you lower your insulin you’re going to lose weight you’re going to lose fat on your liver you’ll have cognitive benefits your mood will be better you’ll have less blood sugar issues and less cravings and overall you’re going to feel really good so it is possible to have your cake and eat it too when we’re talking about pizza there’s a lot of other foods that you can also eat if you modify the recipes now a healthy pizza is all about the ingredients and the most unhealthy part of a pizza is in the crust because they normally use wheat flour okay so this recipe is going to be using cauliflower cauliflower can mimic a starch okay it’s used in a lot of keto foods and it’s a very neutral food it goes with a lot of other foods you can do cauliflower rice cauliflower pizza crust you can do cauliflower mashed potatoes there’s a lot of different recipes and if you add the right combinations of things it’s pretty darn close to the unhealthy version cauliflower is part of the cruciferous family it has a lot of phytonutrients and it has good amount of vitamin c folate b12 b6 and cauliflower is pretty low in carbs and definitely low in sugar and high in fiber so i’m going to make this very very simple and i’m also going to tell you a very big mistake to avoid when you make this cauliflower pizza okay the key is making the crust correctly okay so you’re going to get a bowl and you’re going to combine two cups of cauliflower shredded all right of course i’m going to recommend organic cauliflower then add two eggs the whole eggs of course i’m going to recommend pasture raised organic eggs okay not pasteurized eggs pasture raised eggs and then two cups of mozzarella cheese okay you can grate that and of course definitely organic and as you’re making the material for the crust preheat the oven to 425 degrees then what you’re going to do is you’re going to mix it all up really nicely and get some parchment paper and form this pizza crust okay and i usually put the parchment paper on a cutting board okay then what i’m going to do is i’m going to take the entire cutting board with the parchment paper and the pizza crust that’s going to go in the oven okay after it’s been preheated and then i’m going to very carefully transport the parchment paper part not the cutting board but the paper with the pizza crust into the oven okay so in other words do not put the topping of the pizza on the crust as the first heating phase okay you want to cook the crust first then pull it out then put the topping on then put it back in the oven and we’ve made this mistake in the past where we puddle this material on the crust and then stick in the oven and it never comes out that good it’s all soggy and you cannot cook the crust in the top material at the same rate because they the top’s going to burn and the bottom crust just needs more time to cook now there’s a couple options with spices you can bake the spices into the crust which is might be a good idea or you can add that on later but if you do you can add a half a teaspoon of garlic half a teaspoon of oregano and half a teaspoon of basil and then you can put some sea salt on it some pepper some other spices that you like so sometimes i will bake this into the crust sometimes i won’t and as this pizza crust is cooking um a minimum time of cooking is going to be about 10 minutes but i would check it at 10 minutes because it might need 12 up to 15 minutes in the oven okay you want to cook it until it’s just slightly browned then you’re going to take it out of the oven okay put it back on that cooking board and then wait till it cools off a little bit and then you can start adding your toppings so i put a low sugar type tomato sauce okay i’ll put that first then i will put a layer of grated mozzarella cheese then i will put either sausage or pepperoni sometimes i like to cut a tomato in little chunks and put that on the pizza maybe with some olives and maybe even mushrooms so whatever topping you like go ahead and put that on the top of that crust and put it back in the oven okay for another 10 to 12 minutes until the crust turns slightly brown pull it out let it cool off and you are ready for a delicious pizza now since keto has became very popular there everyone in their brother is making keto products okay including the cauliflower crust and there’s one company that i’ve used in the past that i really really like and it’s called the kibosh version now i don’t get any kickbacks or i have no affiliation with this company but when i see a good product with good ingredients i recommend it so check out these ingredients you got cauliflower mozzarella cheese we got cheese culture egg almond flour coconut flour flaxseed meal cream of tartar and baking soda so i really appreciate companies that don’t add all these additional unfriendly keto ingredients and so if you don’t have time to make the crust something like this is a great option i’ve also used this to make lasagna and it’s actually quite delicious now let’s compare that crust with some of the other popular versions of a cauliflower crust like newman’s own the first ingredient is corn starch then they add rice flour and then tapioca starch another brand name is great value rice flour corn starch tapioca starch and then we have rustic they had wheat flour potato starch and then caulipower they had rice flour cornstarch twice and the tapioca starch you don’t want a cauliflower crust with these ingredients under the name of keto friendly or even low carb i mean some of these have like 29 carbohydrates that’s just for a serving size this whole crust only has three grams of carbs so in summary there is a way to have both healthy and delicious at the same time but you have to make sure that the ingredients are healthy if you’re buying crusts at the store now if you haven’t seen my pizza recipe video this was a long time ago i created it so the quality’s not great i’m going to put that up right here check it out you