Paleo Recipes

Paleo pizza recipe
Serves 4

Crust ingredients
½ cup coconut flour;
1 cup almond meal;
1 tsp baking powder;
2 tsp garlic powder;
4 eggs;
3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil;
½ cup coconut milk;
Topping ingredients
A few tbsp tomato pesto or of your favorite tomato sauce;
8 sun-dried tomatoes, chopped;
3 artichoke hearts, chopped;
8 button mushrooms, sliced;
1 tbsp coconut oil, for cooking;
50g-100g good quality cooked ham, shaved (amount depends on your preference);

Preparation
Preheat your oven to 375 F.
Always begin your pizza making by preparing the crust. This is necessary for this recipe, as the crust requires some cooking time without the toppings.
In a large bowl, combine the coconut flour, almond meal, baking powder and garlic powder.
Using a whisk to eliminate any clumping, start mixing in the wet ingredients. I usually continue to whisk as I do this, because it helps prevent the dry ingredients from clumping. You will reach a point when your whisk becomes useless and your hands are necessary, generally when the mixture starts forming a batter.
The batter will seem quite soft and much different in texture than the usual pizza dough, but once cooked it will take the right form.
On a well greased and rimmed pizza pan, pour in the batter and spread it until it’s covering the complete surface. It’s important to use a rimmed pan so the batter doesn’t spill off.
Throw just the crust in the oven and allow it to bake alone for 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare all of your toppings so that you just have to put them on once the crust has baked.
For the mushrooms, simply heat a pan of a medium heat and cook the sliced mushrooms with the coconut oil for 3 to 4 minutes, until they are well-cooked.
Spread the sauce on the surface of the crust, as much or as little as you like. Sprinkle on the sun-dried tomatoes, artichokes and cooked mushrooms and then top with the ham.
With the oven still at 375 F, bake the whole pizza for another 10 or so minutes, just to allow the toppings to cook. And then that’s it!

TIL: Cavemen ate pizza.

don't flame this please

But how did the cavemen get the coconuts?

Primal and paleo sites I use:

thisprimallife.com
marinasprimalcooking.wordpress.com
paleodietlifestyle.com
paleoonabudget.com
elanaspantry.com
whatrunslori.com
cavemanstrong.com
againstallgrain.com
fastpaleo.com
paleopot.com

that should be a good start!

Thanks! The bacon wrapped Tilapia on fastpaleo.com looks so good!

:flowerforyou:

Have you got an ipad or a kindle?? I have loads of paleo/primalcook books..But the majority are in MOBI format..

I'm not doing a 100 % Paleo diet, but I cut a lot of processed food and it works well for me so, thanks to everybody who post this awesome recipes

When you can, take a look at www.health-bent.com . They have some great recipes.

I've heard the rawer the better with paleo and primal diet... if you think about it Man/Woman didnt have heat source to cook and gathered more veggies, fruit and nuts unless they stumbled across leftover roadkill and ate it raw but certain meats must be cooked but hey I may be wrong

I have a friend who makes paleo cookies, with almonds I think? I don't have the recipe but they are YUMMY!

dude.. bump and a half!

I've heard the rawer the better with paleo and primal diet... if you think about it Man/Woman didnt have heat source to cook and gathered more veggies, fruit and nuts unless they stumbled across leftover roadkill and ate it raw but certain meats must be cooked but hey I may be wrong

If they didn't have fire would they have had roads for roadkill? :-)

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