Hello, my name is Jemma, and I must confess, truth be told, I’ve never been a huge fan of pizza.
The combination of the heavy wheat dough and lashings of dairy cheese, made me flop into a instant food coma and give me belly ache for hours.
The one thing that I did love about pizza though, is that it is a great social food and you can eat it with your hands – saves on plates, cutlery and washing up. Perfect.
So, whilst on my weekly shop down the free-from aisle at Morrisons, my eyes spotted this packet of gluten-free pizza dough mix… and my mind went into instant overdrive thinking of how I could use it best.
As always, I couldn’t decide on one choice, so I made two:
PINK PIZZA
Using 1/2 the mix, I (slowly) added 50ml of beetroot juice (you can just soak some beetroot in water until pink for this), added 1/2 tsp of veg oil and followed the packet instructions.
I cooked some frozen peas with a pinch of bicarb and a dash of vinegar, then mashed it together. I then topped the pizza with the mixture and added some fried yellow peppers and slices of black olives.
YELLOW PIZZA
Using 1/2 the mix, I (slowly) added 50ml of water with 1/2 tsp of turmeric and a pinch of curry powder, I then added 1/2 tsp of veg oil and followed the packet instructions.
I then cooked some beetroot until soft and mashed it with a pinch of salt, pepper and a dash of balsamic vinegar. And finally topped the pizza with green pea shoots and slices of red chilli.
Can’t decide which one to eat? My advice is to have both! Why deprive yourself?
Pizza is know to solve everything, and when it’s GLUTEN-FREE, DAIRY-FREE, VEGAN, PLANT POWERED and RAINBOW-TASTIC, no-one is excluded from its magical powers.
By Jemma Woolley, guest blogger and extreme tricky eater