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Three Cheese Plantain Crust Pizza

May 9, 2016 8 Comments

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Have you ever tried making a pizza crust with plantains before? It’s so easy, and the plantains add a lovely sweet flavor. This three cheese beauty takes only 30 minutes to make!

Three Cheese Plantain Crust Pizza - easy, gluten-free pizza ready in 30 minutes! by @healthynibs

Two years ago, I went through this phase of making pizza crusts with anything but actual pizza dough. It all started with this cauliflower pizza crust from Nutrition Stripped, and I thought was a genius idea to sneak it more vegetables to one of my favorite comfort foods. Then, I ventured over to other vegetables, like zucchini and spaghetti squash, which, by the way, was a total waste of time. Between waiting for that squash to cook and then wringing out liquid from the flesh, the spaghetti squash crust took nearly 2 hours make. Plus, the flavors didn’t exactly blow my mind either. That’s a recipe I’m never digging up again.

I played around with alternative pizza crusts a bit more, and by some lucky experiment, I discovered that plantain crusts are the way to go. I know, it sounds a bit strange, but stick with me here. It’s a bit like having a slightly sweet cornbread pizza crust, except it’s made with plantains instead. And, in case you’re wondering/slightly worried, this crust does NOT taste like bananas. There’s nothing but tastiness going on here.

I decided to revive this old plantain crust recipe on the blog and made a little video for it, too. Originally, I was going to do a pepperoni pizza, but I just fell in love with this three cheese version. Hope you’re enjoying my videos, and be sure to give this recipe a try!

By the way, if you’re looking for more ways to eat plantains, try my plantain fried rice or chicken fajitas with fried plantains!

Three Cheese Plantain Crust Pizza - easy, gluten-free pizza ready in 30 minutes! by @healthynibs

MASTER MY MISTAKES / COOKING NOTES

  • Make sure to use black plantains: You want to use very ripe plantains for this crust because they’re easiest to peel and mash. I’ve tried making a crust with a yellow plantain, and I could barely mash it with my potato masher! Usually, the plantains I see at the grocery store are green or just barely turning yellow. Pick up one of those and leave it on your counter for about a week. They should turn black by then.
  • Substitutes for almond meal/flour: If you don’t have any of that around, just use gluten-free or regular all-purpose flour.

Three Cheese Plantain Crust Pizza - easy, gluten-free pizza ready in 30 minutes! by @healthynibs

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Three Cheese Plantain Crust Pizza

Three Cheese Plantain Crust Pizza - easy, gluten-free pizza ready in 30 minutes! by @healthynibs
  • Author: Lisa Lin
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 1 1x
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Ingredients

Crust

  • 1 ripe, black plantain
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/4 cup (30g) almond meal or flour
  • 2 TBS mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 tsp dried oregano
  • pinch of salt

Toppings

  • pizza sauce
  • shredded mozzarella cheese
  • shredded parmesan
  • diced cherry tomatoes
  • ricotta cheese
  • chopped basil
  • ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. In a medium-sized bowl, mash the plantain. Mix in the rest of the ingredients for the crust. Pour mixture on prepared baking sheet, and spread to a circular shape.
  3. Bake the plantain crust for 10 minutes, until the crust is firm to touch.
  4. Remove crust from oven and bring heat up to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
  5. Spread on pizza sauce. It’s up to you how much to use. I used about 3 tablespoons. Sprinkle on mozzarella cheese, parmesan, and diced tomatoes. Dot ricotta cheese all over the pizza.
  6. Bake at 400º F for about another 10 minutes, or until the cheeses have melted. Serve immediately.

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  1. Kasey says

    May 27, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    I made two of these for an in-home date night tonight and they were so good! I’ve tried lots of alternatives to crust like you have, and I haven’t even had luck with cauliflower–no matter what I do to reduce the moisture it still turns out soggy and tastes like egg. Others have led to an assortment of failures. But this recipe is fantastic! I was out of almond flour so I used einkorn and it worked just fine. And to other readers, if anyone is thinking of using a silpat instead of parchment paper, definitely get the parchment paper. Ours stuck to the silpat and I was able to perform surgery with minimal damage before putting on the sauce and toppings, but that could have been avoided. But they were really good!

    Reply
    • Lisa Lin says

      May 27, 2016 at 8:56 pm

      Kasey, thank you SO much for leaving me this comment! I’m so glad that you enjoyed this! And yes, cauliflower crusts do take a lot of work. I used a silpat during my trial run, too, and it took me a while to scrape it off! This comment made my day!

      Reply
  2. zainab says

    February 3, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    awesome

    Reply
  3. Naomi Mol says

    April 14, 2020 at 3:14 am

    Hi there! Could I substitute the almond flour for coconut flour?

    Reply
    • Lisa Lin says

      April 15, 2020 at 5:16 pm

      Yes, absolutely!

      Reply
  4. Ana says

    June 24, 2020 at 8:59 am

    Could this be done without an oven?

    Reply

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