A grain-free, gluten-free, vegan pizza crust that only requires a few ingredients, no egg replacer, no crazy gluten-free flour blends and is SUPER simple to make. This recipe is life changing. Talk about allergy friendly!
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Holy crap. Could it be true? An easy, delicious, flavorful crust recipe that only takes a handful of ingredients and doesn’t use any specialty egg replacers or gluten-free flour blends? Doth my eyes deceive me?
No. No they do not!
If you haven’t heard of socca, I hadn’t either until a few weeks ago with The Kitchn did an article on it. It’s a street vendor food in France. Once I heard that it instantly gained my trust because the French know their food! Because let’s be honest–I’ve been burned with gluten-free crusts, and don’t even get me STARTED on gluten-free vegan crusts. I’ve got PTSD man. So I needed something that sounded trustworthy to get me to want to even attempt this.
Then, when I saw it only had one type of flour (not a blend!) and all six ingredients were already in my pantry I was invested!
Plus, the fact that my foodie friend that I’ve mentioned before, Gianna, tried it and said she was making it weekly–I was basically chomping at the bit to make this!
The original recipe just used this as a flatbread–but what is flatbread, but an untopped pizza? I knew I wanted to throw in some savory herbs and try this puppy out.
And it did NOT disappoint.
The dough is soft, like a breadstick…and did I mention I’ve missed those sooo bad? The flavor is so, soooo good. So, don’t let the fact that it uses chickpea flour scare you. It really is a great base that lets the italian herbs shine through. Plus, you can use the rest of the chickpea flour to make my egg-free fritata cups. Double win!
You could top this with whatever you like. I loved the simple pizza sauce, basil and black olives. That was what I had on hand. If you can do meat (which we do) I plan on putting italian sausage on it and maybe a sprinkling of vegan cheese (because my son has a gluten, dairy & egg allergy, among others). My son has already called dibs on that next rendition.
Let me know what toppings you try and what you think!! I’m excited to hear other peoples exploration of this fantastic french food that is free of: gluten, dairy, egg, soy, peanuts & tree nuts and is top-8-free!
You can also try this Keto Pizza Casserole from fellow blogger The Domestic Diva.
Grain-free, Gluten-free & Vegan Skillet Pizza (Socca)
A grain-free, gluten-free, vegan pizza crust that only requires a few ingredients, no egg replacer, no crazy gluten-free flour blends and is SUPER simple to make. This recipe is life changing. Talk about allergy friendly!
Ingredients
- SOCCA CRUST:
- 1 cup (4 1/2 ounces) chickpea flour
- 1 cup water
- 1 and 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for the pan
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning blend
- TOPPINGS:
- Jarred pizza sauce
- Black olives, sliced
- Fresh basil
- Kosher salt & freshly cracked pepper
- 8" cast iron skillet
Instructions
- Turn your oven to 450 degrees F and adjust your oven rack to 6-8 inches from the top broiler.
- Whisk together all of the crust ingredients. Let the batter rest for 30 minutes.
- When there is five minutes left on the crust resting, place your cast-iron skillet in the oven to heat for the final five minutes.
- Carefully remove the hot skillet with oven mits and place 1-2 teaspoons of additional olive oil in the pan and swirl it around to cover the entire surface.
- Pour the crust batter into the greased and hot skillet and spread evenly.
- Adjust your oven from 450 to broil.
- Broil the crust for 6-8 minutes, or until the edges are a golden brown and the center is set. The crust will be flexible, but cooked.
- Take the crust out and top with your favorite toppings. Cut into wedges and carefully remove with a heat safe spatula. Best eaten fresh.
Notes
If you just need this to be grain free, you can totally add cheese if your diet allows it. We just can't due to my son's dairy allergy. But, this crust is bomb regardless of the toppings.
Adapted from: The Kitchn
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 209Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 799mgCarbohydrates: 32gFiber: 3gSugar: 2gProtein: 6g
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Hi! I’m Megan, a mom to four kids, two with multiple food allergies & one with EOE. I’m a published cookbook author that constantly tweaks recipes to make them allergy friendly–it’s an addiction. I share every recipe & tip with you, to help you eat like you did before food allergies & dietary restrictions. You can still be awesome, even with food allergies!
Brittany
I know this post is old, but are we able to cook this with out cast iron? Our daughter has lead poisoning. We had our house items tested with an xrf gun. Unfortunately our lodge cast iron tested positive for lead so we had to throw them out. So sad bc lodge is supposedly one of the only lead-free safe cast iron brand. We would so live to be able to have pizza again and introduce pizza to our 1.5 y.o.
Megan Lavin
Hi Brittany. I’m so sorry to hear about her lead poisoning. I wonder if their newer stuff would be lead free? I have not tried it in anything else. My next best guess would be a pizza stone?
Jessica
I’m wondering if anyone’s tried this with a different flour substitute successfully? My son just had to eliminate legumes for his EoE. Or any recommendations of a similar flour to try?
Megan Lavin
what grains or flours can he do?
syd
hi I loved this recipe so much! I was just wondering how many calories in this crust?
Megan Lavin
If you look in the recipe card, it shows nutrition there. Though, I don’t personally calculate it and use an app. So glad you liked it!
Kiersten
What size is your cast iron pan?
Megan Lavin
Hi Kiersten–good question. Thanks for asking. I’ll add it to the blog post. I use this one: https://amzn.to/2GEr7ww
Heather
I just made this recipe, and together with my nightshade-free “nomato” sauce, I had pizza for the first time in years! I put ham and olives on mine. I may need to keep mine farther away from the broiler, or use a lower temp, because mine got burned. But this is a really tasty and easy allergy-friendly crust that I’ll be coming back to!
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Yay! I’m so happy to hear that Heather. Way to find a way to still enjoy pizza with dietary restrictions!
Alice
Sorry, what is the “broil” setting?
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Don’t be sorry. On my oven (and most models that I know) after the highest heat setting, there is a broil setting. It’s when just the top heats things from the top down, instead of heating the entire oven to a certain temperature. It’s how you usually crisp and brown things. Hope that helps!