Vegan Cauliflower Pizza Crust (2024)

Published: May 16, 2014 · Modified: Feb 14, 2023 by Iosune · This post may contain affiliate links · 47 Comments

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I love this cauliflower pizza crustbecause it's scrumptious, tasty, crispy, healthy and the ingredients are easy to get. Most gluten-free pizza crustsuse gluten-free flours with a lot of additives and preservatives and they are so unhealthy,butthisrecipe use ingredients that you can get easily, so that's why I think this recipe is so perfect.

You only need cauliflower, rice flour, chickpea flour, flax seed and water for the dough, that's all!You can find these ingredients inalmost any supermarket. You can also useanother flouryou have at home, you'll need to add more or less flourbecause every flourneeds a different amount of liquid.

We've addedhummus instead of tomato sauceand it tastes amazing! It has a Mediterranean taste and we love it. We've also added twokindsof cherry tomatoes, black olives, oregano andextra virgin olive oil.

Ithought it would be more difficult to eatgluten-free but fortunately it's not. If you have delicious and simple recipes you can eat what you want (a gluten-free version, of course).

You can see the pizzas before and after baking at the two pictures below. You need tobake them until golden brown, add hummus and vegetables and bake for about 10 minutes or until the ingredients are cooked.

With the ingredientsof the recipe we made eight small pizzas, but you can also make two large pizzas. You can freeze the dough, but I recommend you to bake the pizzas for at least 15 or 20 minutes before you put them in the freezer. This way when you want to cook the pizzasyou only have to take them out of the freezer, addthe ingredients and bake them.

We always use the same amount of cauliflower and rice flour, although the amount of chickpea flour may vary. This depends on the water of thecauliflower, so I recommend you to add acup chickpea flour (100 grams) and if the dough is too sticky, you can addmore, if the doughis too dryyou can addsome water. We've used 2 cups of chickpea flour (200 grams) this time.

We also love this pizza crustwith some tomato sauce and vegan cheese on top, you need to try it, seriously,it's really really awesome!

We haven't added salt to the dough or the veggies, but it's up to you. The olive oil is optional, especially if you are on a diet, but it makes the pizza more juicy. You can also addlemon juice if you want to save calories for dessert, or for more cauliflower pizza crust!

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Cauliflower Pizza Crust (Vegan and Gluten Free )

I love this cauliflower pizza crust because is delicious, tasty, crispy, healthy and the ingredients are really easy to get.

5 from 6 votes

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Course: Main Dish

Cuisine: Italian

Diet: Vegan

Prep Time: 25 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour

Servings: 4

Author: Iosune

Ingredients

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▢ 3 cups cauliflower
▢ 3 tablespoons flax seeds
▢ 9 tablespiins water
▢ 1 cup rice flour
▢ 1-2 cups chickpea flour
▢ 1 teaspoon salt, optional
▢ Hummus
▢ 16 cherry tomatoes
▢ 16 black olives
▢ Oregano
▢ Extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

Preheat oven to 200 º C or 390 º F.
Cut off the florets of the cauliflower, you don't need much stem. Place the florets in a blender or food processor and pulse until you get cauliflower crumbs.
Place the cauliflower crumbs in a non-stick pan (with no oil) and cook them over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Stir constantly.
When the cauliflower is cold, place it in a napkin, cheesecloth or strainer to remove as much water as you can.
Place the flax seeds and the water in a blender and blend until smooth. Let stand for at least 5 minutes.
In a big bowl, add the cauliflower crumbs, flax eggs (flax seeds + water), rice flour and 1 cup of chickpea flour (100 grams). You can also add salt, spices or herbs. Mix all the ingredients with your hands. If the dough is sticky, add more chickpea flour (we've used 2 cups or 200 grams). If the dough is too dry, add some water. You can also knead the dough on a floured board.
Place the pizza crusts onto a baking sheet with baking paper. Bake for about 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Spread the hummus, add the tomatoes, olives and oregano and bake for 10 minutes.
Add olive oil and serve.

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sandra says
June 28, 2020 at 1:51 am
Hello Iosune In your blog you say you use equal amounts of rice flour to cauliflower. In the recipe, it appears it is not equal amounts. Can you elaborate, please.
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- Iosune Robles says
  June 30, 2020 at 1:40 pm
  Hi Sandra! It is not a mistake! What I was trying to explain is that we always use the same amount of cauliflower and the same amount of rice flour for this recipe but the amount of chickpea flour varies 🙂 Hope I have helped you! Have a nice day!
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  - Sandra says
    June 30, 2020 at 6:56 pm
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    Thank you!!
Amy says
January 20, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Hi, I’m excited to try this recipe but I’m wondering what the chickpea flour is used for? Is there a substitute for that or would I have to use that? Could I use potato flour instead? I’m not sure my allergy kiddos can have chickpeas which is why I’m wondering. Thanks so much for posting this recipe! It’s so hard to find safe foods for my multiple food allergy babies so I’m very grateful to those who are knowledgeable and creative enough to do what I have a hard time doing.🥰
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- Iosune says
  February 27, 2020 at 4:37 pm
  Hi Amy! You can use any other flour instead, just add more or less if needed 🙂
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Deb says
December 27, 2019 at 1:43 am
Hi. Looks great. Did you use white or brown rice flour? Also did you use basmati, short grain , long grain rice or ... for the rice flour? Thanks
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- Iosune says
  February 26, 2020 at 3:30 pm
  Hi Deb! I used brown rice flour 🙂
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Delia Borrego says
January 30, 2019 at 8:52 pm
I really enjoy this website, it gives me good ideas to eat healthy.
Thanks!
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- Iosune says
  January 31, 2019 at 8:01 am
  Hi Delia! Thank YOU for your kind wors 🙂 Have a nice day!
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Lynnette Seymour says
June 07, 2018 at 1:41 am
I bought everything to make this! Is the cups of cauliflower before or after it is "riced"? Thanks!
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- Iosune says
  June 13, 2018 at 12:30 pm
  Hi Lynette! Before 🙂 Hope you liked it!
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Joy says
April 13, 2018 at 9:27 am

A deliciously nutritious base. We did our own thing with the topping using tomato paste with olive oil and crushed garlic, thinned somewhat with water and almost everything we could find to pile on as topping.
Lining the tin with baking paper is a must - I didn't have any so thought greasing would do. It didn't and it was an effort to prize it out of the tin! But oh, so worth it!
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- Iosune says
  April 16, 2018 at 4:14 am
  Hi Joy! Sounds so good 🙂 So glad you enjoyed it!
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christine says
January 03, 2018 at 5:09 pm
Any reason the dough would have stuck so terribly to the baking paper I used? I lightly floured the paper and then laid the dough down to shape the crust- but I had to peel the paper off of the whole bottom of the pizza! What a bummer. Should I have used oil? or was my dough still too wet? I didn't want to put double the amount of flour in that was mentioned.. any tips?
thanks!
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- Iosune says
  January 06, 2018 at 1:37 pm
  Hi Christine! I'm so sorry the recipe didn't work for you. Have you used the same ingredients and followed all the steps? I think probably your dough was too wet, try to remove as many water from the cauliflower as you can. Hope it works!
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Lana says
November 14, 2017 at 5:41 pm

It was fabulous! I tried it this morning, except I eyeballed 00 flour. It held up and tasted amazing. After many cauliflower fails, where it would stick to the pan, or crumble, this one was delicious! Thank you so much! I'm very happy and full now.
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- Iosune says
  November 15, 2017 at 10:46 am
  Hi Lana! Thanks a lot 🙂 So glad you liked it!
  Reply
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Sadeequah says
November 11, 2017 at 4:09 pm
Just finished making this recipe Omg I love it....I had organic coconut flour and organic oat flour taste amazing and I used fresh tomatoes blended to make my sauce added garlic and salt to it as well....Vegan Parmesan cheese to top it off.....Pics on Facebook....Thanks for sharing
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- Iosune says
  November 14, 2017 at 10:03 am
  Hi Sadeequah! So glad you liked it so much 🙂 You're so welcome!
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David Lawson says
October 09, 2017 at 2:58 am

I'm gonna use your recipe to make some cauliflower crackers. The hummus gave me the idea. Thanx
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- Iosune says
  October 09, 2017 at 3:25 pm
  Hi David! Hope you like them 🙂
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Jill says
September 12, 2017 at 7:10 am
Hi there
If I don't have a nonstick pan would steaming the cauliflower work ?
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- Iosune says
  September 18, 2017 at 1:36 pm
  Hi Jill! I don't think so. Try to use a regular pan instead 🙂
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helena says
August 14, 2016 at 2:00 am

Hi, thanks, this looks very good and easy. I will make it when I have all the ingredients. Just wanted to let you know I used a cheese grater to make cauliflower rice. I don't have a processor!
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- Iosune says
  August 31, 2016 at 10:11 am
  Hi Helena! I've never used a cheese grater, but it sounds great! Thanks for your comment 🙂
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elizabeth amparan says
May 10, 2016 at 9:36 pm

Alright, so I made these for dinner tonight and they truly were tasty and easy to make. I posted a picture via Facebook to share my labor of love. Thank you Losune for sharing your labour for people like me who really appreciate your work 😉
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- Iosune says
  May 13, 2016 at 2:27 pm
  Hi Elizabeth! Thanks a lot for sharing the picture and for your kind words. You made my day! <3
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April says
April 16, 2016 at 4:13 pm
this looks yummy. can the crust be frozen and used later?
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- Iosune says
  April 22, 2016 at 4:54 pm
  Hi April! I've never frozen the crust, but I think it could work 🙂
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Airyfairycelt says
November 16, 2015 at 7:26 am
Fantastic! Easy and tastes so good! I think there are so many combinations of toppings to add they could fill several books!
Thank you very much.
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- Iosune says
  November 18, 2015 at 9:50 am
  Hi! Thanks 😉 Yes, you can use hundreds of different ingredients 😉
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question says
October 11, 2015 at 9:10 pm
I love your photos, but why do all recipe blogs and sites now put the recipe way at the bottom of a page of many, many huge pictures? When I am searching for a recipe and want to compare, this makes it take forever! I would love to know the reason because it seems to be a new trend across the internet. Cant the recipe be at the top, and the photos and commentary at the bottom? I find it really frustrating.
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- Iosune says
  October 12, 2015 at 10:33 am
  Hi! We try to connect with our readers and also tell a story, besides I also follow other blogs and I love to see the pictures and read what they have to say. Have a nice day! 🙂
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Melissa Page Boeshans says
August 03, 2015 at 7:15 am
Could I use all garbanzo bean flour?
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- Iosune says
  August 12, 2015 at 5:29 pm
  Hi Melissa! I've never made the recipe using all garbanzo bean flour, so I don't know if it will work, I'm sorry!
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- marilyn says
  September 27, 2015 at 12:42 pm
  chickpeas - garbanzos (spanish word) = Same thing. 🙂
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  - Iosune says
    September 30, 2015 at 10:50 am
    Hi Marilyn! I know! I'm Spanish 🙂 Melissa asked if she can use only garbanzo bean flour because I also used rice flour. Thanks anayway!!!
Teresa says
February 18, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Hola!
Congratulations on your blog, I love it!!
I was going to try this recipe tonight but is there another way to blend the cauliflower florets? Do you mean raw cauliflower?
Thanks! 🙂
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- Iosune says
  February 19, 2015 at 11:05 am
  Hola Teresa! Thanks a lot! I mean raw cauliflower and you can blend it using a food processor, a blender or just a knife 🙂
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Pina says
October 05, 2014 at 6:09 am
Made these for supper tonight & they were delicious!! Thanks for the recipe!
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- Iosune says
  October 05, 2014 at 12:01 pm
  Great!!! Thanks for your comment Pina 😀
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Liane says
June 19, 2014 at 10:30 pm
This looks and sounds great! I´ve been reading your blog for a while and love the recipes 🙂
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- Iosune says
  June 24, 2014 at 11:12 pm
  Thanks a lot Liane! 😉
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  - Harshil says
    April 22, 2015 at 2:10 pm
    
    Great recipe. Do you know if we can replace the rice flour with any other type of flour?
  - Iosune says
    April 23, 2015 at 10:39 am
    Hi Harshil! I think you can use any other type of flour, but probably you'll need to add more or less flour. Have a nice day!
Natalie says
May 19, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Wow, great pictures! I'll have to go buy some rice and chickpea flower and give these a shot! Your blog is wonderful 🙂
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- Iosune says
  May 20, 2014 at 12:18 pm
  Thanks Natalie! I hope you like it! 🙂
  Reply

5 from 6 votes

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Vegan Cauliflower Pizza Crust (2024)

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Cauliflower Pizza Crust (Vegan and Gluten Free )

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