Gluten-free sweet potato pizza dough

Written by missblasco en September 27, 2018. Published in BASICS, BLOG, RECIPE, SUGAR FREE.

Learn how to make a pizza dough without gluten, easy and healthy, based on sweet potatoes, forget industrial pizzas full of sugars and unwanted fats.

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The past 23 of September began the fall, a season of the year that I love, the days are getting shorter and, if there is luck, temperatures drop moderately, it is time for new products in the kitchen, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, cabbages, spinach, mushrooms, chestnuts, pomegranates, tangerines, there are many and offer many culinary possibilities.

One of my favorites because of the versatility offered is the Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, with it you can prepare countless recipes, it has a sweet flavor that avoids the use of sugars and sweeteners when we use it in dessert recipes, its texture is smooth and its pleasant flavor combines with sweet and salty .

You can prepare creams, soups, you can fry the same as we fry the potatoes, you can use them in dough, for sponge cakes, muffins, cookies or pizza bases., You can add it to your stews, make a puree, etc.

The recipe that I propose below is a gluten-free sweet potato pizza dough, prepared with sweet potatoes, almonds and tapioca, they are delicious, they work very well as a pizza crust, but also as a base to prepare canapés and other appetizers, you can make a good quantity and freeze them, when you need them you take them out, add your ingredients favorites and bakes, I have done the test and children love them, keep reading and learn to prepare them, they will help you a lot in your day to day.

The gluten free sweet potato pizza crusts can be frozen. Use them when need it , just add the topping you prefer, bake them and go!

To prepare these bases, you need cooked sweet potato, ground almonds, tapioca flour, eggs and salt. Optionally you can add pepper and garlic powder, as well as other spices, oregano, basil, etc. As they do not carry flour of any cereal, they are free of gluten and they do not take dairy products either.

In the same way that I prepare the sweet potato bases in mini format, you can prepare the cauliflower bases of the same size, consult the recipe in this post, the only thing that you must do is to form the dough in small portions, just like with the sweet potato ones, you can freeze them and use them when you need them.

You can also make a sweet potato dough base in large format, just like I showed you at the entrance of the cauliflower pizza, it depends on your needs.

When you get used to making these kinds of preparations, they will become a staple in your kitchen, this kind of things make your life easier and contribute to the healthy eating of the whole family.

Enough industrial masses with a huge amount of ingredients, most of them absolutely unknown to us and not good for our health, with this type of recipes I propose to show that none of that is necessary, that with very few ingredients, you can make delicious things already healthy time, with many fewer calories and with real food.

I've had the opportunity to check what's on the market and you'll really be surprised to see it.

On the one hand, there are gluten-free pizza doughs, a well-known brand has in its catalog a frozen pizza whose list of ingredients is a nonsense, in this link You can see the product and its composition.

Below you can see the list of ingredients, highlighted in bold those corresponding to the dough:

"Ingredients:

22% sifted tomatoes, 14% mozzarella cheese, edam), 14% cooked ham smoked flavor (pork, water, salt, dextrose, stabilizers (di- and triphosphates, sodium nitrite), aroma, smoke flavor), rice flour, water, starch, potato starch, potato flakes, refined rapeseed oil, yogurt, pea protein, yeast, sugar, salt, thickeners (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, xanthan gum, guar gum) extra virgin olive oil, starch modified, emulsifiers, (lactic esters of monoglycerides, and diglycerides of fatty acids, acetic esters of monoglycerides and diglycerides of fatty acids), oregano, glucose syrup, spices, garlic, egg yolk, skimmed milk powder, flavor, parsley, dextrose, acidulants (lactic acid, calcium lactate), milk proteins, antioxidant (rosemary extracts) "

How do you stay? Do you think this deployment of substances is necessary to make a simple pizza dough? Do you realize that it is a super industrialized product that is not really food?

From this long list it is important to emphasize two things: fats, (lactic esters of monoglycerides, and diglycerides of fatty acids, acetic esters of monoglycerides and diglycerides of fatty acids), by the way, nice detail what of "extra virgin olive oil"I'm calmer. And the sugars, (glucose syrup and dextrose).

The dough for pizza crust that I suggest, both the sweet potato and the cauliflower one, do not contain fats, except the good fats of the almonds, and the only sugars that you will find are those naturally present in the sweet potato and in the cauliflower, because these doughs are real food made with real ingredients.

Do not hesitate to make your masses, whether with cauliflower, sweet potato or any other vegetable or vegetable, with pumpkin, carrot and beetroot you can also make great mashes, the zucchini also works, there are many possibilities, it can be done with egg without it, and if you do not tolerate nuts, there are also options, with flours based on seeds and roots.

Do not stay with the first thing you find, it is really sad to see that to feed someone with an intolerance they have to "almost poison" in this way, being so easy to make a healthy gluten-free dough.

Prepare the dough for your pizza crust at home, controlling the ingredients, knowing what you eat!

There is another product of the same brand that I mentioned before that surprised me a couple of weeks ago when I saw it in the freezer of a supermarket, at first glance I noticed the packaging, with a very colorful design, highlighting the presence of vegetables in its composition, I immediately went to see it in more detail, is a range of frozen pizzas whose claim is that the mass of the base is made of vegetables.

There are three types, one of beet, another of spinach and cauliflower, (the latter I have seen online), the graphic design they have used in the packaging is designed to give the feeling that it is a very healthy product, whose vegetables are the main ingredient, but when you turn the box over and read the list of ingredients, you realize that it is very deceptive, that you do not have as many vegetables as you are told, that the base is wheat flour and that contains unhealthy fats, in addition to sugars and starches of unknown origin because they do not specify what they are.

Below you can see the ingredients, it is noteworthy that you do not specify how much percent of wheat flour it takes or how much percent of sugar.

El nabine oil, in case you did not know it is rapeseed oil also called canola oil, in Spain it is avoided to name it because of the national sanitary problem that, in 1981, caused the sale of imported rapeseed oil that had been treated as industrial oil and later refined For food use, this oil was toxic and affected more than 20000 people.

Since then in Spain, rapeseed, rapeseed or canola oil has enjoyed a very bad reputation and is not usually named as “rapeseed oil” in any ingredient list, although the industry does use it regularly.

The problem with this oil is that it contains toxins and during its refining there are a series of processes that degrade its compounds and make it even more toxic. Obviously it is suitable for consumption, but it is not healthy at all.

Ingredients of the pizza with supposedly vegetable base:

"Ingredients:

wheat flour, 19% mozzarella cheese, 19% spinach, 12% sifted tomatoes, 8.6% broccoli, 8,6% cultivated mushrooms (agaricus bisporus), 5% tomato concentrate, refined rapeseed oil, yeast, modified starch, sugar, salt, garlic, basil, extra virgin olive oil, oregano, black pepper. "

With these data, you have enough elements to judge if you think it is advisable or not to consume these products and if it is worth it or not to make your own pizza dough at home.

I think the answer is very clear and that really does not require so much effort to develop a healthy product, suitable for the whole family and know exactly what we are eating.

A little further down I leave the recipe so you can make the dough for the gluten-free sweet potato pizza crusts, and remember that in this link you have the recipe for cauliflower-based pizza dough. Both masses are free of gluten, unhealthy fats and sugars.

Cauliflower is vegan, has no egg, the sweet potato, carries egg, but read the notes of the recipe because it can be replaced by other ingredients, none of them carry dairy, are easy to make and super healthy. You sign up? 😉