Toovaloo Gluten Free, Dairy Free Organic Make at Home Egg Pizzas

Gluten Free Dairy Free Pizza!

Pizza is definitely one of the biggest bummers about being gluten free. While a lot of restaurants serve gluten free pizza now, I have gotten sick from nearly all of them because of the cross contamination issue. While I tend to get sick almost any time I eat out at a restaurant, a place that has flour literally hovering in the air and settling on every surface is pretty much a guaranteed place to get a celiac reaction. Since Brian has discovered dairy is the culprit of much digestive distress, we pretty much had written pizza off for both of us. I mean, without crust and cheese, all you have left is tomato sauce and random bits of veggies or meat according to your choice of toppings...not exactly a meal.

Tomato Egg and Basil Pizza

I have tried making gluten free pizza at home from pizza mixes, but they usually turn out to be heavy as a brick. And, while I truly appreciate companies that make an effort to make frozen gluten free pizzas ... they really just aren't anything close to what you crave when you think pizza.

gluten free, vegan, organic, local (SD) pizza crust

I was of course highly skeptical when I found a premade pizza crust at People's that was, hold up...gluten free, vegan, organic, refined sugar free and made locally in San Diego???? What? Way too good to be true. But low and behold, Encinitas-based Toovaloo Gluten Free has come up with a way to meet both mine and Brian's dietary restrictions and values, while tasting good and holding together like a real pizza. I won't say that this is the best pizza I've ever had. But, I will say it is better than I could ever imagine a gluten free, dairy free, sugar free, vegan, organic, local pizza crust to be. Plus it isn't like eating empty calories from a refined flour product as most baked goods are. While it does use minimal white rice flour to bind the thing together, it is made mostly of protein- and mineral-dense amaranth flour, tapioca, and flax seed.

Pesto Pizza!

I used the Toovaloo Gluten Free Flatbread to make our pizzas, but upon looking at their website, it looks like they also make a specific gluten free pizza crust, which I have yet to cross paths with, but I imagine it only gets better. The first time I used the Toovaloo Flatbreads to make a vegan pizza I made a simple cheese-free pesto sauce as the base (basil, olive oil, walnuts, and salt), then topped that with baby spinach, tomato slices, and shallots from our garden. Brian raved about it, but it got eaten so fast that I forgot to take a picture (to the right is a picture of another time I made toovaloo pesto pizza but with eggs and cheese that time). So I decided to try it out again one night this week when I only had 20 minutes to make Brian dinner before he rushed off to tutor after work. Since my roommate Jen and I made a tomato sauce the previous night with our tomato surplus, I thought this would be a quick and easy meal. But wait, pizza with tomato sauce and no cheese would be absurdly boring. So, I made egg pizza with some organic, free range, local eggs I found at Trader Joe's and topped mine with some blue cheese crumbles :) (This of course makes it not so vegan, but you can sub any toppings for the eggs)

While the pizza came out good and filling, I think I liked the pesto one better. I think it's because the flatbreads are quite thin, so the sauciness of these ones almost made the pizza slightly flimsy, but it still held together really well, just like real thin crust pizza that you can fold in your hand. Here's the scoop on gluten free, dairy free, egg pizza.



Gluten Free, Dairy Free Egg Pizza made with Toovaloo Flatbread

Ingredients

I got blue cheese on mine :)

1 Toovaloo Gluten Free Flatbread
Homemade tomato sauce (saute 1 diced carrot, 1 diced onion, 4 minced garlic heads, 1 diced celery stick, 1/2 cup chopped basil, 8-10 tomatoes, 1/2 cup of wine, salt. Bring wine to a boil then reduce to a simmer for about 2 hours)
4 eggs (organic, free range please)
1 handful of fresh basil chopped
Crushed Red Pepper

Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Place your flatbread on a pizza pan. Top with sauce. Crack 4 eggs on top of the pizza like you would when making sunny side up eggs. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the whites on the eggs are cooked and the pizza crust is lightly brown and toasty. Sprinkle with fresh basil and crushed red pepper. Follow the same steps for a pesto pizza, but check after 12-14 minutes.

This gives pizza for breakfast a whole new meaning :)

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