Courgette pizza
Print recipeEveryone loves pizza! With this recipe you can easily make a pizza base from courgette, eggs and ground almonds. Top it with a delicious tomato and herb sauce. And then load up that lovely base with your favourite ingredients!
Ingredients
Pizza bases
- 2 courgettes
- 1 handful of chives
- 4 eggs
- 100 g ground almonds
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Sauce
- 1 onion
- olive oil for frying
- 1 clove of garlic (crushed)
- 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon oregano
- pepper to taste
- salt to taste
Topping
- 150 g grated cheese
- 2 handfuls of spinach
- 1 handful of fresh basil
Kitchen tools
- grater, baking paper
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and line two baking trays with baking paper.
- For the pizza bases, coarsely grate the courgettes and finely chop the chives. Mix the courgette with a fork in a bowl with the eggs, ground almonds, chives, turmeric and salt. Divide the courgette mixture over the two baking trays.
- Using the back of a tablespoon, shape into a pizza base. Place the baking trays in the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the tomato sauce. Finely chop the onion, heat olive oil in a pan and sauté the onion and garlic.
- Add the chopped tomatoes, oregano, salt and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Remove the bases from the oven and spread the tomato sauce over them. Top with cheese or a topping of your choice and bake for another 10 minutes until the pizza base is golden brown at the edges and the cheese has melted.
- Remove from the oven and garnish with spinach and basil.