Getting Simple with the O'Tooles: Pizza Mania!

Pizza is one of our favorite dishes, but it is difficult to have pizza when one person has an intolerance to dairy and two are not able to eat gluten. Tonight, I will share with you our favorite pizza recipe adapted from Food Babe's recipe http://foodbabe.com/tag/pizza-is-a-vegetable/ This is a quick, easy, gluten free, and clean recipe. I even make Owen's with goat cheese or without any cheese for a dairy free version. Get ready to have pizza mania again...finally, a healthy pizza!

Main Ingredients:
Ezekiel Brown Rice Tortillas (Food Babe use their whole wheat tortillas, I tried them and I like the texture of the Rice Tortillas much better) - they are with the refrigerated bread

Pasta or Pizza Sauce (I use homemade because it does not have added sugar or other ingredients)
Toppings of choice

Our typical toppings include mushrooms, broccoli, red/orange/yellow bell pepper, and cheese (organic dairy or goat cheese)

Other options include:
Nitrate/nitrite free ham, sausage, pepperoni
Vegetables of your choice: onion, spinach, tomatoes, kale...etc.
Olives (check your ingredients)
Jalapenos (check ingredients)
The list goes on

I am a stickler for 'traditional' pizza toppings, I usually don't like chicken or bar-b-que, but I promise the broccoli on pizza is very tasty.

Tonight we had homemade sauce, broccoli, mushrooms, delicious sausage (Farmer's Market), and cheese

The process

Preheat oven to 45o
Place the tortillas in the oven (directly onto the racks) until they start to turn brown (3-5 minutes depending of if they were defrosted or frozen. You should be able to take them out of the oven with tongs without them bending.
Chop veggies and/or meat while the tortillas are browning
Take the tortillas out of the oven and spoon 3-4 tbs of sauce on them. *Do not put cold sauce on the tortillas or they will crack - I promise!
Put selected toppings on the pizza.
Place back in oven, directly on the racks, for 7-10 minutes (until the cheese is melted the way you like)
Remove from oven with a spatula. Some pizzas will come out easily and others may be a little more difficult, I slide these onto a plate so they don't fall into the oven (yes, that has happened to us before).

Garnish as you see fit. I add cracked red pepper to mine as well as Nutritional Yeast as a replacement for parmesan. Owen gets Nutritional Yeast and Matt enjoys salt, pepper, and occasionally Nutritional Yeast.

On a cutting board, cut the pizzas into quarters or eighths using a pizza cutter or knife, and transition to plates. I usually eat one pizza as does Owen, my husband, however, can easily eat 2 in one sitting. These pizzas are crispy and light; they do not leave you feeling bloated or stuffed.

Not sure what Nutritional Yeast is, check here http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2011/10/what-the-heck-is-nutritional-yeast.html We often use this as a replacement for cheese, especially parmesan. We eat it on veggies, eggs, pizza, pasta, just about anything.

Here are the pictures of my pizzas in the making.