Monday, April 18, 2011

Gluten free margherita pizza




This one's one of our family's favorites. Ever since my youngest son was diagnosed with celiac disease, my family & I certainly miss delivery pizza. But when my hubby came home one day with a delicious Udi's crust from Whole Foods a couple of months ago we were smitten!

Ingredients:

-Pizza crust (Udi's is our favorite- crisp & delicious)
-Gluten free pizza sauce (Whole Foods also carries an excellent pizza sauce that's organic & gluten free)
-Shredded monterrey jack cheese ~ of course, for authentic margherita pizza, you'd use slices of mozzarella scattered around the entire pie
-sliced roma tomatoes
-basil ~ we use real basil sprigs plus basil flakes from a jar
-red pepper flakes
-goat cheese ~ optional
-ground hamburger beef for 'sausage' ~ optional

Instructions:

This one's pretty self-explanatory. Follow the instructions on the pizza crust. The Udi's instructions, for example, just have you top the pizza with all of your desired ingredients and then bake it for 6-8 minutes or so.

Note: We like to add crumbles of goat cheese. Also if you're feeling adventurous, you can crumble beef from hamburger meat in a skillet on medium/high for several minutes, stirring continuously to even out the cooking of the beef. Do this while the pizza is cooking and add to the top of the pizza when the pizza only has a couple of minutes left to cook.