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Grain-Free Almond Meal Pizza Base Recipe

July 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I made this recipe the other night along with the zucchini base pizza and a coconut flour pizza. It was decided that a spinach and bocconcini topping would go well with it. The recipe follows closely to the Pizza Crust recipe from Elana Amsterdam’s Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook.

Grain-Free Tomato, Spinach and Bocconcini Pizza

Ingredients

Base

  • 1.5 cups Almond flour (I used Almond meal)
  • Dash of Sea salt
  • 1/2 tspn Baking soda
  • 1 Tbspn Butter
  • 1 egg
  • Mixed herbs of your choice

Toppings

  • Tomato sauce base (we made ours from garlic, tomato paste, oregano, salt & pepper, water)
  • Spinach leaves
  • Bocconcini
  • Cherry tomatoes

How to make

Base

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
  2. In one bowl combine the almond flour, sea salt and baking soda.
  3. In another bowl beat the egg into the butter (melt the butter first).
  4. Combine the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. You should get a dough like texture.
  5. Roll the dough into a ball and place onto a sheet of baking paper. Place another sheet over the top.

    Roll out the dough

  6. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough into the desired shape and then bake it in the oven for around 15 minutes.

    Ready for the oven

Toppings

  • Add your desired toppings and bake for another 10-20 minutes until ready.

    Toppings added, ready to go back into the oven

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Semi-Primal Taco Salad Recipe

May 5, 2011 By 2 Comments

Semi-Primal Taco Salad

UPDATE: I’ve since made this again and tried something a little extra. Try adding dried coriander and oregano when you add the spices for some extra flavour.

I love Mexican food. All of the cheese, meat and spicey flavours mix together into some awesome flavours.

Unfortunately, going Primal means that you can kiss traditional wheat or corn tortilla’s goodbye (unless you check out Mark Sisson’s alternative recipe in his Cookbook).

However, this does not mean that Mexican food is no longer within your grasp. Enter, the Taco Salad. Traditionally this recipe comes with corn chips, we’re gonna forget about those though and focus on the other flavours instead.

Ingredients

  • 500g ground beef or bison
  • 1/2 an onion
  • 1 tin kidney beans
  • Tomatos
  • Lettuce
  • Grated Tasty cheese
  • Cumin
  • Paprika
  • Chilli

Chilli, Paprika, Cumin

Preparation

  1. Chop up the onion and brown in a fry pan with some coconut oil.
  2. Add the mince to the fry pan and brown up.

    Browning the mince

  3. Add kidney beans, paprika, cumin, chilli and 1/2 cup water. Simmer on low heat until liquid has boiled down.

    Add spices and beans

How to eat it

  1. Dice the tomatos and chop the lettuce
  2. Add the meat mixture and then the grated cheese.
  3. Serve with Taco sauce and sour cream. We just used the jar variety Taco sauce, hence this only being semi-Primal. You could also add some home made guacamole.

The end result

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Home Made Simple Guacamole Recipe

April 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Here is a super quick and easy Guacamole recipe that you can whip up in about 5 minutes.

It goes great with any Mexican style food or simply with some home made Almond Crackers.

This recipe makes enough Guacamole for 2-3 people for one meal.

Ingredients:

  • 1 avocado
  • A squeeze of lemon juice
  • 2-3 Tbsp sour cream
  • Salt & pepper

How to make:

  1. Grab a bowl, a spoon and a knife.
  2. Half the avocado, remove the pip and throw it in the bowl.
  3. Add the sour cream, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
  4. Stir together with the spoon but be sure to leave it somewhat chunky.
  5. Spoon onto plate.

Home made Guacamole with the Primal Blueprint Cookbook’s Enchiladas.

Enchiladas and home made Guacamole

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Zucchini Base Pizza

April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Zucchini Base Pizza

This recipe is based off Christina’s zucchini pizza base. We used the base recipe as a guide and added out own toppings.

Note that I have given very broad ingredient measurements because it’s pretty hard to mess it up.

You will need:

The base

  • 3 or 4 zucchini’s, grated, moisture squeezed out
  • 2 eggs
  • a pinch of salt
  • mozzarella, broken up
  • tasty cheese, grated

The topping

  • rocket
  • salami
  • tomato
  • mushroom
  • red onion

Here’s what we did:

The base

  1. Turn the oven on to 180 degrees Celcius.
  2. After you have squeezed out the moisture from the zuccini place it in a bowl and add the eggs, salt and cheese.
  3. Once it’s well mixed, spread it evenly in a greased pan.
  4. Pop it in the oven for 20 minutes and let it brown up.

    Zucchini base uncooked

The pizza

  1. Add the toppings to the top and bake for another 10 minutes. You may need longer if you have a thick layer of toppings.

    Zucchini Base Pizza

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