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    🏠Home » Recipes » Low Carb/Keto Recipes

    Easy Low Carb Pizza

    Jan 5, 2010 | Last Updated Apr 10, 2021 by Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan

    Recipe Table of Contents    
    4.6 from 15 votes

    Learn the secret of a great quick and easy low carb pizza that is tasty and will satisfy your pizza craving while you're on a low carb or keto diet.

    Two cooked flat bread pizzas on a stone

    Table of Contents
    • 🍕The Crust
    • 🥣The Sauce
    • 🖊️Notes
    • 📖Low Carb Recipes
    • 🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
    • 📖Recipe
    • 💬 Comments

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    Introduction

    Many people are following lower carbohydrate diets like Adkins or Keto diets. If you are one of those people, low carb or keto-friendly pizza is high on your wish list.

    Many suggestions are floating around in the low-carb/keto diet community for pizza crust. Hamburger crusts very disgusting, cream cheese/ egg concoctions with many steps that are highly prized by the inventors and followers but are also odd and disgusting. There are the various "wonderful" various cauliflower concoctions, all bad.

    All these crust substitutes are labeled as "easy" for some odd reason. You need to accept that pizza just won’t be quite the same, but we can make it something good for what it is.

    My Rating

    My rating system of a 4 out of 5 so very nice.

    A strong four especially compared to the competition.

    🍕The Crust

    For the crust, use low-carb tortillas or Flatout Flatbread, which are only about 6 net carbs for a larger size with either. Plus, they taste good, are cheap, available at our local market, and have a long shelf life in the fridge.

    The Big Secret to Make This Work

    The trick is not just to slap the sauce and goodies on the flatbread or tortilla. You need to brown them a little in a bit of oil, which will help keep them from becoming mush.  It is that simple.

    🥣The Sauce

    I generally use a jar sauce. I'm not particularly eager to do that, but we are only using a couple of tablespoons per pizza, and if you are selective, it will be fine. You can make your own and freeze baggies of small amounts if you are going to do this over and over.

    🖊️Notes

    Timing: With a little planning, this can easily be done under 20 minutes from the start of eating.  I had everything already in baggies, so that is why it went so fast. But even without that, about 30 minutes is all it takes.

    Do I need a pizza stone?

    No, without the pizza stone, use a large ½ sheet pan sprayed with PAM. But the stone will help crisp up the crust more, and it great to have around for heating standard pizza.

    📖Low Carb Recipes

    Low Carb Parmesan-Sesame Crackers

    Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole

    Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

    Simple Splenda Lemonade

    This recipe is listed in these categories. See them for more similar recipes.

    Italian Recipes, Low Carb/Keto Recipes, Pizza Recipes
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    🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions

    bag of low carb Flatout bread

    Preheat oven to 425° convection or 450° conventional with the pizza stone on a center rack.

    browned flat bread in a fry pan

    In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add 2 teaspoons of oil. Brown low-carb flatbread/tortilla on both sides slightly. You are just firming it up to keep it from falling apart with the sauce and ingredients.

    spreading sauce on browned flat bread

    Spoon on 2 tablespoons premade pizza sauce on the crust and spread. I add another ingredient in the following order: sausage, onion, 12 pieces of pepperoni, green pepper, mozzarella, and top off with your last 6 pieces of pepperoni.

    pizzas on stone

    Transfer to the pizza stone. This will cook rapidly for about 10 minutes.

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    Pizza Variation: Four Cheese White Chicken Pizza

    Just a change in toppings: Eliminate Italian sausage, green pepper, pepperoni, and pizza sauce.

    New ingredient:
    1 tablespoon butter
    ½ tsp garlic powder
    ½ cup diced chicken
    1-2 oz each of feta, white cheddar, mozzarella, and shredded parmesan
    1 Plum tomato - thin sliced  (about ¼ inch)
    Instructions:
    1) Melt 1 tablespoon butter and add ½ tsp garlic powder. Spread over the crust like sauce.
    2) Now add the topping: ½ cup of diced chicken, thinly sliced plum tomato (about ¼ inch), 2 oz each of feta, white cheddar, mozzarella, and shredded parmesan.

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    📖Recipe

    Two cooked flat bread pizzas on stone

    Low Carb Pizza

    From Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
    Learn the secret of great quick and easy low-carb/keto pizza that is tasty and will satisfy your pizza craving while you're on a low carb or keto diet.
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    4.6 from 15 votes
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 10 minutes
    Total Time: 20 minutes
    Servings #/Adjust if desired 2

    Ingredients

    US Customary - Convert to Metric
    • 1 large low carb tortilla - or low carb flatbread
    • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil

    My suggested toppings - use what you like

    • ¼ pound Italian sausage - browned
    • ¼ cup green pepper - chopped
    • ¼ onion - Chopped medium size
    • 18 pieces pepperoni
    • 2 tablespoons premade pizza sauce - I like Ragu Sweet Basil
    • ½ cup mozzarella shredded

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 425° conventional or 450° conventional with the pizza stone on a center rack.
      bag of low carb Flatout bread
    • In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add 2 teaspoons of oil. Brown the flatbread/tortilla on both sides slightly. You are just firming it up to keep it from falling apart with the sauce and ingredients.
      browned flat bread in a fry pan
    • Spoon on 2 tablespoons pre-made pizza sauce on the crust and spread. I add another ingredient in the following order: sausage, onion, 12 pieces of pepperoni, green pepper, mozzarella, and top off with your last 6 pieces of pepperoni.
      spreading sauce on browned flat bread
    • Transfer to the pizza stone. This will cook rapidly for about 10 minutes.
      Two cooked flat bread pizzas on stone
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    Recipe Notes

    Pro Tips:

    1. I generally eat a whole one of these, but some look at it as two servings. So nutrition says two serving on one of these. You can double the number if you consider the whole thing one serving.
    2. Obviously, nutrition varies completely by ingredients.
    3. The pizza stone helps a lot.
    4. Use the flatbread if you can find it. It is thicker and will remind you more of a thin crust pizza.
    5. DO NOT skip the browning step.
    6. I suggest making the ingredients up ahead, but the "crust" will be soggy and fall apart if you try to store a cooked one of these.

    Variation: Four Cheese White Chicken Pizza - You should try this one.

    Just a change in toppings: Eliminate Italian sausage, green pepper, pepperoni, and pizza sauce.
    New ingredients:
    1 tablespoon butter
    ½ tsp garlic powder
    ½ cup diced chicken
    1-2 oz each of feta, white cheddar, mozzarella, and shredded parmesan
    1 Plum tomato - thinly sliced  (about ¼ inch)
    Instructions:
    1) Melt 1 tablespoon butter and add ½ tsp garlic powder. Spread over the crust like sauce.
    2) Now add the topping: ½ cup of diced chicken, thinly sliced plum tomato (about ¼ inch), 2 oz each of feta, white cheddar, mozzarella, and shredded parmesan.

    To adjust the recipe size:

    You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.

    Nutrition Estimate

    Calories : 373 kcal (19%) | Carbohydrates : 4 g (1%) | Protein : 17 g (34%) | Fat : 32 g (49%) | Saturated Fat : 15 g (75%) | Cholesterol : 75 mg (25%) | Sodium : 832 mg (35%) | Potassium : 292 mg (8%) | Fiber : 1 g (4%) | Sugar : 2 g (2%) | Vitamin A : 323 IU (6%) | Vitamin C : 18 mg (22%) | Calcium : 152 mg (15%) | Iron : 1 mg (6%)
    Serving size is my estimate of a normal size unless stated otherwise. The number of servings per recipe is stated above. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
    Course : Main Course
    Cuisine : Italian

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    Editor's note: This was originally published on January 5, 2010. Updated with expanded options, refreshed photos, and a table of contents to help navigation.

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    Comments

    1. Lou7

      January 31, 2022 at 10:53 pm

      I made this pizza and loved it, made two more for my son, he called me to say how good it was, his words "tasted like it came from a pizzeria", I agree.

      I fried the tortilla, browned the mild Italian sausage, green peppers, onions & mushrooms, spread on Classico Sauce, (Sausage, green pepper & onion), then spread thin layer of mozzarella, put on the sausage, green peppers, onion, black olives, more mozzarella cheese, sprinkled on salt, garlic salt & Italian seasoning. baked 10 minutes. Tasted like a professionally made pizza.

      Reply
    2. kazy

      April 26, 2021 at 4:19 pm

      Hi Dan,
      I found your white cheese pizza intriguing and would like to try it except I noticed in both places that you mentioned it, you gave no cooking instructions like you did for the pepperoni. Are we to assume that we prepare the tortilla the same way as we would if we were doing the pepperoni pizza, by browning it first in a pan on both sides, then topping it with garlic butter, chicken and and the 4 cheeses, then placing on a pizza stone and baking for 10 minutes?

      Reply
      • Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan

        April 26, 2021 at 8:59 pm

        Hi Kazy,
        Welcome to the blog.
        Yep, cook everything the same, tortilla browning then toppings then bake on a stone.
        Dan

    3. Stacy Scoggins

      April 01, 2021 at 12:30 pm

      I really enjoyed this recipe! My toppings were leftover shredded brisket and cheese. I did quickly fry the tortilla and bake it at 425° for 10 minutes. That was so good, when I make pizza again, I'm not changing anything.

      Reply
    4. Jana

      September 29, 2020 at 9:52 pm

      5 stars
      This recipe is great! Before seeing this recipe I made a version of this, only without the first step to crisp up the flatbread, and mine was more flimsy. That step made all the difference in the world. The crust is thin and crispy and so yummy with the added toppings! A winner!

      Reply
    5. Paula Lynch

      February 13, 2016 at 5:00 pm

      We are so excited to try this (going to make the oven blackened tilapia tomorrow for first time). We don't have a pizza some, can we use a cookie sheet? If so, any adjustments needed? Also on conventional oven would we use 450 degrees like on tilapia recipe?

      Thank you so much in advance for your assistance. Feel blessed to have come upon your site today in Google search for tilapia, so many things we're going to try!

      Reply
      • DrDan

        February 13, 2016 at 5:06 pm

        Yep a cooking sheet will work. I do a lot of higher temperature cooking and have a discussion in the FAQs menu above. Basically I don't like to go above 425 much so if the recipe calls for 425 convection. Still with 425 conventional and add a bit of time.
        DrDan

      • Paula Lynch

        February 14, 2016 at 8:37 pm

        Ok great, ty so much! Will stick @ temp and just add time :) Will check out the FAQ. We enjoyed the oven blackened tilapia tonight!

      • Lou7

        January 31, 2022 at 10:58 pm

        I used a pizza Tim with holes in it, was fine!

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