Oat Bran White Pizza
Oat Bran White Pizza
If I can reveal a little bit about myself I’d have to say that my biggest weakness for any food in the world, is pizza. I LOVE pizza. And wine. And pizza with wine. And although I’m in my fifth week in the Cruise Phase, I have not faltered once. With pizza anyway. The wine cravings haven’t been so easy to ignore. But let’s get back to pizza.
Today is a Pure Protein day so I can’t have tomatoes. But that doesn’t mean I can’t have pizza. I’ve been working on a flourless pizza crust now for a couple of weeks and I think I have one that even the pickiest of pizza lovers will like.
OAT BRAN WHITE PIZZA RECIPE
1 packet of rapid rise active yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1/4 cup of oat bran, ground in a coffee grinder to flour consistency
a pinch of salt
1/2 t olive oil
2 T lowfat ricotta cheese
1/2 cup skim milk mozarella, shredded
2 T finely grated parmesan cheese
2 T chopped basil, parsley, jalapeno or other favorite fresh herbs
salt and pepper
olive oil spray
Activate the yeast in the warm water. In a double boiler over simmering water, add yeast to the flour, salt and olive oil, slowly, until a very sticky ball of dough forms. Spray a glass bowl with olive oil spray, place the dough in the bowl, cover with a kitchen towel and let rise in a warm place for an hour. The dough will not rise much but it will lose it’s stickiness and become much easier to handle.
Sprinkle some oat bran on a cutting board and roll out the dough until it’s cracker-thin (should be about a 7-inch circle). Place on a pizza stone or cookie sheet and bake at 425 for five minutes. Remove the crust and turn the temperature up to 450. Spray each side of the crust with a small amount of olive oil spray and season with salt and pepper. Spread the ricotta cheese on the crust, follow with the mozzarella and the parmesan. Bake 10 minutes and remove from oven. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes or fresh herbs.
ENJOY!!
Serves 2
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Oh Wow, I can’t tell you how happy I was to find this. I am on day 2 of cruise phase and I gotta tell ya … The oat bran is making me gag. You can eat fat free cream cheese? There is actually fat free cream cheese?
Have you got any tips on sweeteners? I guess I look around first.
Hi Renee, it’s nicol. Glad you found us! Check out the Oat Bran Pancake post here, it’s great! It’s become one of my favourite, and easiest, ways to get my daily dose of oat bran. jlo’s become quite creative with the bran, so try some of them out.
Hey, all of your recipes look amazing. I was just wondering if you had suggestion about how to mash up the oat bran If you don’t have a coffee grinder? Pestle and mortar..?a blender? Xx
nothing else is probably going to get it broken down that much. Dukan says its better to eat it in it’s larger form. probably better for your digestion but I like to break it up.
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Are we allowed to have cheese? I’m in the attack phase and I’m trying to mix it up lol…
you can have lots of lowfat dairy. you have to watch the fat, so eat as much fat free dairy as you can find and limit the lowfat. 2% cheeses are out there if you look.
Oh my does she live near warne north carolina to start a catering service?I,d sure order.
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Hi…. I have just discovered your page (after you followed me on twitter – leannewaldman). I have a query – a lot of recipes such as the one above for pizza use cheese such as lf ricotta. On the UK version the only cheese I can see allowed is Quark (which is a fat free cream cheese) or virtually fat free cottage cheese. How comes you have used other cheese?
glad you found us! the US only allows fat free. but the UK diet which is the one that i joined and payed for online allows for lowfat. they don’t have fatfree dairy in europe so much. it’s a choice you will have to make but i lost 20 doing it the UK way which was lowfat dairy. the protein to fat ratio is higher than with meat but you gotta figure there is more fat in meat that you’re eating most of the time! there is fatfree ricotta too. you just have to find it.
THANK YOU!!!! This recipe is excellent. My husband and I are six weeks into Cruise, both having lost 21 pounds each. We were really missing pizza. I made this with carmelized onions, roasted garlic, and fresh basil with fat-free mozarella and parmesan. It was heavenly to have pizza again.
Have you thought about self-publishing a book for kindle or nook? Your recipes are great!
I’m so glad you liked it! it’s hard to get it right, it’s not the easiest but it’s worth it when it turns out for sure! you should try the cauliflower one too. it will amaze you how much it tastes like pizza! yours sounds awesome with the basic and garlic. mmmmmm. pizza is my weakness. try making some of the flatbreads now too. they’re tasty–the cinnamon one is so good out of the oven! i’d love to write a cookbook. i hope that one day this turns into that! i’ll look into the self-publishing thing. wasn’t sure i knew you can do it electronically! anyway, thanks for the support and good luck with the diet!
I didn’t think we were allowed to have Ricotta Cheese
i found low fat that has just as much as the cottage cheese i ate throughout cruise. i followed the UK diet where they don’t have fat free dairy products. they’re full of chemicals anyway. but these are decisions that you have to make for yourself. if you want to stay with fat free and you can’t find it anywhere then you probably should stay away from it. (i’ve seen a fat free version at some of my markets though) i use lowfat as much as i can.
Thank you SO much for this! I, too, love pizza and wine (preferably together!), but entering third week of Cruise and determined.
I’m trying this tomorrow to enjoy during the Golden Globes. Question: your recipe calls for rapid rise active yeast, I bought active yeast, but turns out rapid rise is different from just plain active. I’m assuming, since you say to put it in the warm water, that what I bought is fine, as the rapid rise doesn’t require the warm water. Can you clarify when you get a chance? Thanks!
i’m not a huge baker so i’m not sure about the difference. but i’m guessing it’s not going to make one bit of difference in this recipe. this doesn’t rise much because you’re not using flour. one make work a bit faster is all.
Thanks, it didn’t! And I’m making it again tomorrow.
Aw god bless a pizza lover. It’s goin in the oven. Yes get publishin gal and let us all know. 4200 on his website I think so you could pick some biz from his forum.
what forum??? and yes, i LOVE pizza more than anything!!