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Who can deny a delicious slice of Crustless Pizza? I love pizza, and I love that I don’t have to sacrifice carbs for this recipe since it’s got a meat crust!
It’s quick and easy to make this delicious copycat meatzza. Better yet, though, you can top it with all of your favorite ingredients! If you love this low carb pizza recipe, I recommend trying this BBQ Chicken Meatzza as well as these Pizza Stuffed Peppers.
What is a Crustless Pizza?
A crustless pizza is another name for a meatzza, or meat pizza–it’s a delicious way to make a low carb, meat crust pizza. The crust is literally made of meat. The base of this recipe is ground meat and/or sausage, then you can add pizza sauce, veggies, and cheese on top.
Meatza is great if you are watching your carbs or are looking for a gluten free pizza option. Pizza crust is not necessary for a delicious pizza night!
Enjoy!
– Becca
Ingredients in Crustless Pizza
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities
- Ground Meat or Sausage: Completely dependant on your tastes and personal restrictions. I prefer using ground turkey or chicken, but you can use ground beef if you’d like. Ground beef and meats with a higher fat content will have more grease and should be cooked on a pan with sides.
- Tomato or Pizza Sauce: I prefer to make this homemade pasta sauce recipe. I double the seasonings and cook it to reduce a bit and make it thicker for pizza.
How to make a Crustless Pizza
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 450º
In a medium bowl, mix ground meats, garlic, basil, diced onions, egg, and seasonings.
Step 2: Spread the mixture onto a greased baking sheet. You’ll want to use one with sides to catch any grease that rolls off.
Step 3: Bake for 10 – 15 minutes, or until meat is fully cooked.
Remove from the oven and drain excess fat/grease. You can use paper towels to soak it up or you can use a turkey baster to suck it up.
Step 4: Turn your oven to broil.
Spread pizza sauce on your meatza, and add your cheese and toppings.
Step 5: Broil for 4-5 minutes or until your cheese is perfect and browned.
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Recipe Tips
- Your meatza will shrink a bit in size, so be sure to roll it out with that in mind.
- Don’t stress about shape–round or rectangle, meatza is delicious!
- You can use parchment paper to collect some of the grease, but know that it won’t make the bottom crispy like it normally does with baking.
- To lower the fat content of your meatzza, consider skipping the ground sausage in the base and using just some of it to top the pizza instead.
Crustless Pizza FAQs
Crustless pizza is simply pizza without the crust but with more meat. Depending on which healthy eating plan you’re on, cutting the pizza crust could be a healthier option for you.
Homemade pizza with a vegetable based “crust” is what I’d consider the healthiest pizza. You control the ingredients – lots of fresh vegetables, part skim cheese (or skip the cheese), and use sliced zucchini or a portobello mushroom for the base.
This depends on what meat you use as your pizza base and what toppings you add. As written, using ground turkey and ground turkey sausage, 1/4 of this crustless pizza has 465 calories.
Healthy Eating Plans
Weight Watchers Points
7 Points for lean ground turkey breast, lean sweet turkey sausage, fat free marinara sauce, and part-skim mozzarella cheese. Make sure to add your toppings up, too!
21 Day Fix Containers
Container count for the full Crustless Pizza base is 9 red containers.
Single Serving is 1/4 of the meatza:
For 1/4 of meatza with cheese and sauce, but no toppings: 2 1/4 red containers, about 1/3 green container, 1 blue container.
2B Mindset
This recipe is a perfect dinner, since it has no FFCs.
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Crustless Pizza
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Ingredients
- 1 lb ground meat very lean
- 1 lb ground turkey sausage ground, Italian
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic chopped
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 tsp basil
Toppings:
- 1 cup marinara sauce
- 1 ⅓ cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- chopped veggies of choice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450.
- In medium bowl mix hamburger, sausage, egg, and seasoning. 1 lb ground meat, 1 lb ground turkey sausage, 2 eggs, 1 tsp onion powder, 1 tsp garlic , 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp basil
- Spread onto a greased cookie sheet (must have a lip on the sides) Bake for approx. 10 minutes or until meat is fully cooked (it will reduce in size quite a bit).
- Remove from oven and drain excess fat.
- Put oven on broil.
- Spread marinara sauce on the meat “crust. 1 cup marinara sauce
- Layer with meat, veggies, and cheese. chopped veggies of choice, 1 1/3 cup mozzarella cheese,
- Broil for 4 to 5 minutes until toppings are heated through and cheese is melted.
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My family loved this and I was surprised no one said anything about it not have a crust. Thanks for the great recipe.
Can you make this with ground chicken and not add the sausage ?
Absolutely! I’ve done it here: https://mycrazygoodlife.com/bbq-chicken-meatza-keto-pizza/
Hubby absolutely loved this! He is still talking about it hours later!
Yayyyy!!!
I just started the 21 day fix. This recipe is perfect and so satisfying!
Yum! I wish this was my dinner tonight!
What a great idea to cut down on carbs! I bet it is super delicious this way, like a casserole on a cookie sheet. And that way you get all the toppings you want without the guilt. Love it!
My husband and his meat & potato eatin’ buddies love Meatza with garlic bread, side of pasta and salad with tons of veggies. The gals and I skip the bread and a use a 21 DF salad dressing. Everyone is happy!
Thanks so much for all the amazing recipes. I love 21 DF, but have been considering the 2B. I have seen your posts about that plan. I am wondering if something like this fits into a plan like that. Trying to decide if I want to make the investment.
Hey Sam!
I’d you paired this with a big salad, or added riced cauliflower to the ground meat that you use as the base it would work. You’re supposed to have a decent amount of veggies with your meals, so you’d have to find a way to incorporate more veggies into it.