Cauliflower Pizza Casserole
This low-carb casserole is packed with veggies, and will totally satisfy your pizza craving!
Ingredients
- 1 large head cauliflower
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 sweet bell pepper, diced
- 6-8 baby Bella mushrooms, diced
- 2-3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 14-ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 handful baby spinach or greens of your choice
- 6 ounces pepperoni, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- salt & pepper, to taste
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella (or cheese of your choice)
- 1 cup cottage or ricotta cheese
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3 Tbsp fresh grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Trim the leaves and hard bottom stem from the head of cauliflower. To cook, I just put the whole head in my vegetable steamer, stem side down, and let steam on high for about 10 minutes. Drain steamer and set cauliflower aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, preheat a skillet (I use cast iron but whatever is your favorite works!) Chop all of your vegetables and sautee them, in the same order as they are listed (i.e onions and peppers first, as they take longest to cook ... greens last.) Add the dried basil, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper. Sautee until vegetables are tender and heated through, about 15 minutes total. Remove from heat.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees right around this time of the process.
- When the cauliflower has cooled, pulse it in a food processor to get it finely chopped to a rice-like consistency.
- Now, you are ready to mix everything together. Mix your riced cauliflower, sauteed vegetable and seasoning mixture, cheeses and milk. Put into a baking dish and cover. Bake for 45-60 minutes. I usually take it out and stir it up about halfway through.
- Remove from the oven and let cool a bit before serving. While it cools, you can add the freshly grated Parmesan cheese on top.
Notes
You can serve with a protein side if you want (we normally do chicken breasts) or you could just serve as is. The vegetable combination can also be tweaked to your liking, or you could add additional meat (hamburger, sausage, etc.) Sometimes I use pasta sauce instead of the canned tomatoes. It's a very flexible dish!