Lower Carb Almond Flour Pizza Dough

I'm trying to find a lower carb pizza dough recipe that tastes good. I decided to mash together a keto recipe with a sourdough recipe, and came up with this.


 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup lukewarm water (237 ml)
• 1 teaspoon sugar 
• 2.5 teaspoon active dry yeast 
• 6 ounces sourdough starter
• 1 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 cup coconut flour (64 g)
• 1/4 cup almond flour (24 g) (+ 3 tablespoons as needed)
• 3 tablespoons ground flax (15 g)
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2.5 ounces bread flour flour (+ 2 tablespoons as needed)

Instructions:

1. Combine water, yeast, & sugar in a stand mixer to let yeast proof a bit.
2. Measure in sourdough, then add flours, flax, salt, and oil.
3. Knead for 5 minutes. (I added in the 3 tablespoons more almond flour, and 2 tablespoons more bread flour because my dough looked too wet.)
4. Let rise for 45 minutes or so.
   
   
5. Place cooking stone  or baking steel 6 to 8 inches from broiler. (Second from top shelf in my oven.)
6. Preheat oven to 550 degrees (or highest setting) about 30 minutes before cooking.
7. Roll out dough as thin as possible on a piece and 1/2 of parchment paper  - aim for about a 14” circle. (If using rolling pin, do NOT roll crust edges, so they will have more spring.)
8. Slice up veggies and meats you want to use for toppings.
9. Pre-bake crust 4 minutes on pan on top of pizza stone.
10. Remove crust from oven. (Remove from pan, and remove parchment. You want the pizza to cook up on the hot stone or baking steel to get crisp on the bottom.)
11. Top lightly with your favorite ingredients.
12. Bake another 5 minutes.  As needed, switch oven to broil, and broil for last minute or so, watching crust. 
    

Carole's Notes:

We liked this!

The crust was much better the second day, when I crisped it on a skillet on the oven, so I added the note about cooking it directly on the baking steel/pizza stone.


The recipe is adapted from http://carolelikesroundfood.blogspot.com/2017/10/quick-sourdough-pizza.html and https://www.sweetashoney.co/low-carb-pizza-crust/