If you want to stay in the Keto Zone and have your pizza too, you’re gonna have to work for it. This one makes it easier. Here’s how to make it, what commercial keto pizza crusts stack up, and why you should eat more portabella mushrooms anyway.

Keto Zone Pizza Crust with Portabella Mushrooms

Ingredients

Portabella Mushroom Crusts:

• 4 large portabella mushrooms, cleaned, gills removed
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper

Optional Pizza Toppings:

• sauce: low-carb marinara sauce, Keto Zone Marinara Sauce, Keto Zone Pesto, or more Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Italian seasoning
• mozzarella cheese, shredded
• mini pepperoni, natural sausage (cooked), or other favorite pizza meat
• large basil leaves, torn

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
2. Brush the inside and the outside of each mushroom with olive oil, and season the tops with salt and pepper.
3. Place the prepared mushrooms on the mat, tops down.
4. Build your pizza with your favorite toppings, including marinara or pesto, herbs, cheese, and meat.
5. Bake for 10-12 minutes until cheese has melted and mushroom is tender.
6. Top with fresh basil and serve.

Nutrition Info (for mushroom crust)*: 256 calories, 26 grams fat, 1.4 grams net carbs (2.4 grams carbs, 1 gram fiber), 2.4 grams protein (91% calories from fat). Optional toppings not included in nutrition info due to variances.

Why Make Keto Zone Pizza Crusts with Portabella Mushrooms?

When it comes to keto pizza crusts, you have a few options. You can buy a crust, or you can make one. There are a few good options if you’re looking to buy them, but they often require online shopping and are quite expensive.

If you’d like to choose a commercial crust, keep these factors in mind:

1. Always first with commercial products, turn the package over and read the ingredients list (or find it online). Don’t pay attention to the front side of a package; it is little more than marketing. Read every ingredient and make sure it doesn’t contain soybean oil, concentrated omega-6 oils, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, silicone dioxide (silica), and other preservatives), food colorings, and chemical flavoring. Is it acceptable? Go to step 2. Unacceptable? Look for another brand.
2. Next, look at the nutrition label. Does it fit into your Keto Zone eating plan? How many net carbs does each serving contain? Is the serving acceptable to you? If so, move to step 3. Unacceptable? Look for another.
3. Lastly, does it meet your standards for taste, texture, and convenience? When you’re buying keto foods, you’re usually spending a decent amount of money. Make sure it’s worth it based on reviews, recommendations, and instructions. If not, make your own with our Keto Zone Pizza Crust recipes.

Two online options that fit the bill in terms of ingredients, nutrition, and reviews are Cali’flour Foods Gluten Free Low Carb Cauliflower Original Italian Pizza Crusts and Outer Aisle Gourmet Cauliflower Pizza Crusts. However both are very expensive, and while they taste good, some reviewers don’t like the textures.

Why You Should Just Opt Portabella Mushroom

If you want to make your keto crust, there are also many options available. Some of our own recipes differ from this portabella mushroom one quite a bit but still deliver a great product. They often take more ingredients and time though. One favorite is this Keto Zone Stovetop Pizza Crust.

The great thing about using portabella mushrooms, though, is you are using an easy single-ingredient, whole-food as a crust! And portabella mushrooms offer a lot of great nutrition. This includes:

Antioxidants and Anti-Inflammatories: The antioxidants in portabella mushrooms, like those in other plant foods, fight free radicals and oxidative stress. This in turn protects cells and tissues while supporting skin health and healthy aging. What’s more, mushrooms also contain anti-inflammatory nutrients, which may reduce risk of chronic disease associated with inflammation (1).

Beta-glucan: Beta-glucan is a soluble fiber that is associated with improved cholesterol and heart health. It can also reduce blood sugar spikes and the risks of type 2 diabetes.

B vitamins: B vitamins, including riboflavin, niacin, and pantothenic acid, are abundant in mushrooms.  They are important for heart health, red blood cells, energy, skin and hair health, and more.

Copper: Copper is a vital mineral that supports energy in the body. It aids in the synthesis of red blood cells, which deliver oxygen to your tissues. It also supports healthy bones, nerves, and more. Copper is best obtained from natural foods that keep it in balance since too much, or too little, can have negative effects on health (2).

Potassium: Potassium is another extremely important mineral that supports heart, muscle, and nerve function. Portabella mushrooms have comparable potassium levels to bananas, making them a great low-carbohydrate source of potassium.

It really doesn’t get easier or healthier than a Keto Zone Pizza Crust with portabella mushrooms. Skip the expensive commercial brands and difficult recipes. Use portabella mushrooms for an easy, high-nutrition pizza dinner!

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Luckily, we’ve made your cookout planning easier with our Keto Zone Fruit Pizza. Made with keto cookie dough, cream cheese filling, and topped with juicy fruit, this Labor Day dessert will impress all your family members and neighbors. 

Our fruit pizza is sweet and refreshing, but most importantly, easy to make! It’s time to relax and enjoy your holiday weekend with your family and friends.

Ingredients

Cookie Crust:

• 1 3/4 cups almond flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons cold butter, diced into chunks
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup keto sweetener

Filling:

• 6 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup keto sweetener
• 1/2 strawberries sliced
• 1/2 cup raspberries
• 1/2 cup blackberries
• 1/4 cup blueberries

Instructions

1. In a food processor, combine the almond flour, salt, xanthan gum, low carb sweetener, and vanilla together. Pulse a few times, then add cold butter. Pulse until it looks like bread crumbs. Add in egg and pulse until the dough comes together into a ball. Place in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour.
2. While the dough is in the fridge, combine the softened cream cheese, sour cream, vanilla, and low carb sweetener together in a bowl. Whisk until smooth and fluffy. Place in the fridge until ready to use.
3. While you wait, slice your strawberries in half and remove the stems.
4. Take dough out of the fridge after an hour, and place between two sheets of parchment paper. With a rolling pin, roll out the dough until it’s about 12 inches all the way around. Dough should look like a pizza.
5. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Remove the top layer of parchment paper from the dough and carefully flip the parchment over and place the dough out onto the pan you choose to use. Repair the crust with your fingers if it breaks. Use a fork to poke holes through the dough to create air pockets.
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes until dough is lightly golden. Let dough fully cool before adding cream cheese mixture. 
7. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the dough.
8. Top with strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries, before you’re ready to serve. You can store in the fridge for a few days. Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts

Servings: 8 slices

Serving Size: 1 slice

Per Serving

Calories: 250 kcalories

Fat: 27 grams

Carbohydrates: 8 grams

Net Carbs: 4 grams

Protein: 8 grams

Recipe adapted from Bon Appeteach.

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One of the most delicious – and most difficult – keto recipes.

If you are sick and tired of messing around with complicated and inconsistent cauliflower pizza crusts, then this recipe is for you!

This deep dish keto pizza is made with a simple and straightforward keto pizza crust.

In fact this keto pizza crust is ready to top in as little as 20 minutes!

As a deep dish style recipe, this pizza is ready to be loaded up with your favorite keto ingredients. It can be endlessly customized with low-carb vegetables and meats.

You can even experiment with different keto sauces. Tomato sauce can be substituted with pesto or alfredo.

So have fun and enjoy this delicious and easy deep dish keto pizza recipe!

Ingredients

Crust:
1/2 cup blanched almond flour
1/4 cup organic mozzarella cheese, shredded
1 large pasture-raised egg
1 tablespoon grass-fed butter, melted
1 tablespoon dried organic oregano

Toppings:
1/2 cup organic tomato sauce, sugar free
1/3 cup organic cheese of choice, shredded
1/2 pound organic sausage or grass-fed ground beef
1/4 cup organic mushrooms, chopped
1 organic onion, chopped
2 cloves organic garlic, minced

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. In a small bowl, microwave mozzarella for 30 seconds.
3. Add egg and almond flour to the melted mozzarella and whisk until well combined.
4. Add butter and oregano and continue to whisk until a dough is formed.
5. Grease a large cast iron skillet.
6. Arrange dough in the bottom of the skillet and press up the sides of the skillet.
7. Place skillet in the oven and bake for 17 minutes.
8. Remove skillet from oven.
9. Arrange the meat in an even layer on top of the crust.
10. Spread half of the cheese evenly over the meat.
11. Spread the sauce out over the entire pizza.
12. Add the rest of the cheese and additional toppings.
13. Put the pizza back in oven and bake for another 30 minutes.
14. When cooked through, remove from the oven.
15. Slice, serve, and enjoy!

Nutrition Facts

Serves: 2

Per Serving:

Calories: 472 kcal

Total Carbohydrates: 9 g

Dietary Fiber: 2 g

Net Carbs: 7 g

Total Fat: 39 g

Protein: 25 g

How did your pizza turn out? Let us know in the comments section below!

Recipe adapted from ketoconnect.net

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