Finding a gluten-free pizza base recipe you love can be like seraching for the foodie version of your soul mate: you know there's a good one out there but you have to go through a lot of duds before you find 'the one'.
You're going to have to trust us when we say we've filtered through the options and this pizza base is definitely 'the one'.
It's light and crunchy, packed with good-for-you nutrition and is anything but boring flavour wise. Using a combination of teff flour and gluten-free flour, it has a slightly nutty taste that's satisfyingly savoury. And did we mention how easy it is to make?
You're going to want to bookmark this one, it's a keeper.
Serves 4
Prep time: 25 mins + 2 1/2 hours resting
Cook time: 5 mins
Ingredients
- 1 cup luke warm water ( 30deg)
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 1 packet dry yeast
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 1 cup Ivory Teff Flour
- 1 cup gluten free self raising flour
- 2 tsp psyllium husk
- 1 tbsp salt
- extra teff flour for kneading
Method
- In a medium bowl, whisk together your water, honey and yeast until well combined, leave for 5-10 minutes until the yeast “blooms” and comes alive, it will be foaming, cloudy and active.
- Once your yeast is active, whisk in your olive oil and eggs.
- In a separate bowl mix in your teff flour, gluten free flour and psyllium husk until well combined.
- Make a well in the middle of your dry ingredients and pour in your wet ingredients. Mix slowly until thoroughly mixed and well combined.
- Cover with a damp clean tea towel and leave to double in size in a warm place for 2 hours.
- Sprinkle some flour onto a bench, place your dough on flour and knead into 4 nice round bslls.
- Place on a baking tray dusted with flour, cover, and leave to rise again for another 30 mins.
- Roll out into flat pizza bases, I did this on baking paper, top with your favorite pizza flavors, cook on a tray in a super hot oven or a pizza maker and enjoy!
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