Fat Head Dough

Ignore the silly name for this and enjoy the best low carb dough on the planet. Please let me know if you find a better dough!

This is a versatile cheese and egg based bread style dough that you can use for pizza bases, biscuit, bread substitute etc.

Recipe

Carb count:

  • 24 grams (net)
  • Approx 4 grams per serve if used as a pizza base (1 slice, 4 grams carbs)
  • Prep & cook time:
    • 10 mins uncooked
    • 15 mins cooking time
    • Total 25 mins

    Ingredients:

    • 170 gram (1 & 3/4 cups)shredded mozzarella cheese
      85 gram (3/4 cups)almond flour/meal
      2 tbsp cream cheese
      1 egg
    • 1/3 of tsp salt or less
    • Parchment paper
    • Note: you optionally can add some herbs or spices

    Instructions:

    • Preheat oven to 220c (420f)
    • Mix shredded mozarella and almond flour/meal in a mixing bowl
    • Add cream cheese to the mix
    • Microwave on High for 1 min first, then stir and microwave for a further 30 sec for (1.5 min in total)
    • Add egg and salt to the mix and mix it moderately
    • At this point it is ready for cooking in your recipe. You need the parchment paper as it is sticky. For example the follow steps are for cooking a pizza dough with it:
    • Place in between 2 pieces of parchment paper and apply pressure with you hand or a roller to flatten and shape it into a pizza dough shape, quite thin.
    • Transfer to the flat sheet to the oven tray, remove top sheet of parchment paper
    • Bake for 11 min at 220c (420f)
    • Flip the base and cook for 4 mins longer
    • The base is now ready for adding pizza topping ingredients (such as more cheese, pepperoni or precooked meats), then bake for a further 5 mins or until cheese is fully melted. Ready to enjoy!

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