Broccoli pizza crust

Surely by now everyone has heard of the cauliflower pizza crust.  With today being the super bowl, I was wanting pizza but only had a few ingredients in the house... one of which was broccoli.

Here is what I came up with...

- 1 bag frozen broccoli
- 2 big handfuls of Parmesan cheese
- Egg beaters (or real eggs or egg whites) Use the equivalent of 2 eggs
- Garlic powder
- Salt
- Dump in ~ 1/2 cup flax seed
- Whatever sauce and toppings you want

Heat broccoli in microwave for 5 minutes.  Pop it into the food processor and blend until fine.  Pour into a medium size bowl.  Firmly press paper towel on top of broccoli to absorb all excess fluid-- very important step.  Add parm cheese, eggs, garlic powder, and salt to taste.  I tend to go heavy handed on the garlic powder and salt.... why?  Because I love salt, and this is a lot of broccoli!  Dump in the flax seed and mix it all together.  Poor mixture onto a greased baking sheet and pat into a circular pizza shape.  Try to get this as thinned out as possible without any cracks in the crust.  It's important to really thin out the middle as this portion takes the longest to cook.

Pop it into an oven at 415 degrees.  Let it cook for about 10-12 minutes and then cool.  You will know it is done when the edges are slightly browned.

Now for the fun part-- toppings!!!!  The above recipe is for 1 pizza.  Tonight I made two of these, one for me, and one for Justin.  I kept my pizza simple by adding diced grilled chicken and mozzarella cheese.  Since Justin had leftovers from the enchiladas I made him last night, I am re-purposing the shredded beef   and adding grilled chicken and Mexican cheese.  I am going to use ranch for the sauce component of his pizza and top with Greek yogurt in lieu of sour cream to make a Tex-Mex Pizza.

After this cools, I'll pop it in the fridge for him to reheat when he gets home.

Enjoy!