Cauliflower Pizza Bites

Yes, you read correctly, Cauliflower Pizza Bites! 

I made these last night and I just had to gush about them on here... Because they are delicious!

As you may know, I've been experimenting with coconut oil, and these not only intrigued me due to that, but also because cauliflower is delish.

Cauliflower pizza stuff is all around Pinterest, so these are my first experiment. They were pretty easy, but 'ricing' the cauliflower was a bit awkward... I used a cheese grater and grated it, and for whatever reason graters and I don't have a great relationship haha... who knows?

Here's the recipe:

• 2 Cups Grated Cauliflower (washed, dried and grated using a food processor or cheese grater by hand until rice-like or thinner – Note – Approximately one head of cauliflower)
• 1/4 Cup Egg Whites
• 1 Cup 1% Cottage Cheese (drained)
• 1 Tsp Oregano
• 2 Tsp Parsley
• 1/4 Tsp Garlic Powder
• 1 Tbsp Coconut Oil (Optional)
• 1-2 Tbsp Frank’s Hot Sauce (Optional)

Directions:

1. Pre-heat your oven to 450 F.
2. Using a healthy cooking oil spray your mini muffin tin.
3. In a hot frying stir fry the “cauliflower rice” until the cauliflower is slightly translucent (about 6-8 minutes). Place in a bowl and let cool.
4. Place all other ingredients the food processor and blend until smooth.
5. In a bowl combine both the “cauliflower rice” and blended ingredients. Mix completely.
6. Evenly spoon mixture into your muffin tin molds. Press pizza dough down evenly and firmly (*The pressing down firmly is very important to make sure these stick together).
7. Place in your oven and bake for 25-30 minutes.
8. Remove the pizza bites from the oven and let set until cool (This is also very important – let these pizza bites set in their pan for 5 – 10 minutes before removing – If you take them out while they are too hot they will break).
9. Once cool remove from muffin tin (either by tipping them out OR by running a thin knife down along the side and popping them out).
10. Heat up some delicious sauce and enjoy!

So once that was out of the way, it was smooth sailing! I blended all the other ingredients and then stirred the blend into the lightly sautéed cauliflower... Voilà, c'est fini! I topped them with a little mozzarella and just threw them in the oven and my gluten free snacks were finished!

 Yum Yum Yum is all I can really say about these! They are super good, and who doesn't love pizza-anything?!

Well I'm officially on Spring Break, so hopefully I'll be baking a few more treats soon!

Happy Weekend!

Vi Ses,
Holly

Source:
http://www.damyhealth.com/2012/03/cauliflower-pizza-bites/