Flower Power Pizza Recipe

For a palma ham and rocket topping:

Spread the tomato sauce over the base of the pizza with the back of a spoon. If you’ve made the sauce in advance and it’s cold, rebake the tomato-topped pizza for 5 minutes before adding your toppings. Top with 4 slices of Parma ham torn into small pieces, 2 handfuls of rocket and some Parmesan shavings. Add chilli flakes, if you like.

For a tomato and mozzarella topping:

Pull apart 1 medium mozzarella ball into small pieces and arrange over the base of the pizza. Slice 2 handfuls of fresh tomatoes into 1 cm-thick slices (a mixture of colours looks good) and arrange over the pizza. Add chilli flakes, if desired. Bake for 10 –15 minutes until the mozzarella is melted and bubbling.

Taken from The Art of Eating Well by Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley (Ebury Press)

Ingredients

For the tomato sauce:

• 3 garlic cloves, or diced
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 12 large tomatoes, roughly chopped
• 2 tsp dried oregano or
• 1 tbsp fresh oregano leaves
• sea salt and black pepper
• 1 fresh or dried chilli, finely sliced or chopped (optional)

For the pizza base:

• 140 g cauliflower (about ¼ of a head without the stalk)
• 1 egg white, beaten
• 50 g ground almonds
• 40 g buckwheat flour
• ½tsp sea salt
• ½tsp black pepper
• ¼tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

1. Preheat the oven to fan 190C, gas 6. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and lightly grease with butter, ghee or coconut oil.

2. Make the tomato sauce: gently heat the ghee in a pan over a medium heat and fry the garlic for 1 minute, then add the chopped tomatoes, oregano, salt and pepper and a little chilli, if you like.

3. Cook the tomatoes down to a thick sauce over a medium heat, lid off,which will take about 15 minutes, then mash the tomatoes with your spatula or blend to a paste if you like things less rustic.

4. While the sauce is cooking, grate the cauliflower into rice-sized pieces using a hand grater or food processor.

5. Put all of the pizza base ingredients into a bowl and mix well with a spoon, or add to the food processor and blend, to form a sticky dough.

6. Spread the dough out with the back of the spoon on the prepared tray, shaping it into a 30 cm-diameter.

7. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes, flipping it over after 15 minutes to cook the underside.

8. Choose your pizza topping from the options opposite and cook as instructed.

9. Serve the pizza with a big green salad and drizzle over some Brazil Nut Pesto, if you like.