Healthy eating doesn’t have to mean forgetting pizza forever. This gluten-free pizza recipe tastes like regular pizza but is much more filling and protein packed. The basic idea is that instead of a flour crust, you use ground beef and spices instead. The texture is amazingly similar, and this “Meatza” is great cold for breakfast the next morning (that reminds me of college!).
Try this delicious recipe, and let me know what you think!
Gluten-Free Pizza (Meatza) Recipe
Homemade pizza with a meat crust and pizza toppings is a more filling and gluten and grain free way to make pizza.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 6 people
Calories 389kcal
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Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground beef
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup Parmesan cheese (grated, divided)
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 tsp basil
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- ½ cup nitrate-free pepperoni (or ham, cooked chicken or sausage, optional)
- ½ cup onion (thinly sliced)
- ½ cup bell pepper (thinly sliced)
- ½ cup mushrooms (sliced)
- ¼ cup black olives (sliced)
- 1 cup fresh spinach
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese (shredded)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- Grease a rimmed baking sheet with coconut oil and set aside.
- In medium bowl, mix together the ground beef with eggs, 2 tablespoons of the Parmesan cheese, and all the spices.
- Mix well by hand until incorporated.
- Spread onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Roll or press the meat onto the bottom of the cookie sheet by hand.
- Put meat into the preheated oven and cook about 10 minutes until browned and most moisture has cooked off. It will reduce in size quite a bit! Just make sure it is cooked enough, you want it pretty solid.
- Remove the meat from the oven and switch the oven to broil.
- Spread the pizza sauce over the meat “crust” then top with the pepperoni or other meat if using, sliced veggies, mozzarella and remaining Parmesan cheese.
- Put back into the oven under the broiler and watch closely. It will only need to cook until the cheese is melted and bubbly, about 4-5 minutes.
- Remove, let cool 3 minutes, slice, and serve.
Notes
- You can use a mix of Italian sausage and ground beef for the base if you'd like.
- Use whatever pizza veggies for topping you prefer. I recommend putting some very thinly sliced onions on the top of the mozzarella which brown nicely and add a nice crunch.
Nutrition
Serving: 1piece | Calories: 389kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 45g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 180mg | Sodium: 1116mg | Potassium: 812mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1420IU | Vitamin C: 21.3mg | Calcium: 281mg | Iron: 4.9mg
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Yummy! Made it today! Easy and delicious. Anxious to see what my daughters think of it! My Italian husband had one bite, but needs more to decide! Thank you very much!
This was absolutely fabulous! And so easy to make. Thank you!
I’ve made several of these and they are totally yummy. I’m now off night shades because of autoimmune (Hashimoto’s ) and related inflammation. So tomorrow I’m going to make a meatza pizza using basil pesto sauce instead of a tomato based (nightshade) sauce. I’ll let y’all know how it turns out, but I bet it’ll be good!
I’m going to make this tonight! We all love meat, and my son (13 months) will eat everything. Just hope the crust will be soft enough for him to chew on… He has just 6 teeth.
My 11 month old loved it and did not have any trouble chewing. He has 8 teeth, so there isn’t that much of a difference. My son eats anything that is put in front of him. 🙂
He ate it with his 6 teeth and liked it 🙂 he really loves food. My daughter, 3,5 yrs ate just the crust, she likes meat, but topping was a fail for her.
I made this the other night and it was delicious! However, there was quite a bit of grease after the initial 10 minutes, so I patted it with paper towels and tried to drain some out in the sink. How do you tackle this issue? Thanks!
I typically just pour it off and add to our dog’s food 🙂
I’ve tried homemade pizza sauce before and can’t seem to get anywhere near the taste of commercial pizza sauce which is almost always made with soybean oil. Fortunately I’ve found 2 brands that have no soybean oil, Classico and the one at Trader Joe’s (called Trader Giotti’s Fat Free Pizza Sauce, which unfortunately tastes no better than my homemade stuff).
So I recently tried this. It was really good, however I think I would prefer a thinner crust so next time I think I’ll try just one pound of ground beef.
Oh my goodness! That pizza was absolutely delicious!! Thank you for this fabulous recipe! Yum!
What is a broiler? I live in Australia and keep seeing this word used.. Is it the grill? The top bit of the oven?
The broiler function of an oven is when the top part gets really really hot.
The Broiler is an oven function, where only the top element comes on and is generally very hot, like 500 degrees farenheit or more 🙂 You use it to quickly brown the top of your food if you like.
My doctor just put me on a low carb, no dairy, gluten free diet – any ideas for the cheese substitutions? This is all new to me.
Thank you!!!
So it just sit in the grease that cooks out of it?
Drain off the grease, and blot with a paper towel. This pizza is so good. I use Italian sausage for the “crust”,then put on a little tomato sauce, mozz. cheese and pepperoni. Thin slices of onions and bell pepper. Put back in the oven til brown and bubbly.????