Caveman Keto Weight loss through low carb cooking
Update: This recipe is now available in video form! Meatza!
This is a pretty common keto staple meal. Its pretty easy to make and looks just like pizza, but its Meatza!
Here is the finished pieces! You can put any toppings on it, I did just pepperoni and cheese.
Any meat can be used, I used ground beef with a little seasoning in it.
Cook the crust in the oven. It will shrink a decent amount but that’s ok! Spread some pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni.
Turned out great!
Meatza
Author: Caveman Keto
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 4
- Serving size: ¼th
- Calories: 610
- Fat: 45
- Carbohydrates: 3
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 44
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Ingredients
- 20 oz Ground Beef
- 2 Large Eggs
- ½ cup Cheddar Cheese, shredded
- 28 Pepperoni Slices
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 4 oz Mozarella Cheese
- To Taste Salt, pepper, garlic powder
Instructions
- Take ground beef and add eggs and seasoning, mix it together
- Place ground beef into cast iron skillet, form into pizza crust
- Cook for 15 minutes, or until meat is done at 400 degrees
- Take out the crust and add sauce, cheese and toppings
- Cook for additional time until the cheese is fully melted
Whenever I fry ground beef (for tacos) there is always a TON of grease that I have to pour out before I add other ingredients. I notice here that you initially cook the meat by itself in the oven. Do you pour out any fat/grease after the meat crust is done?
I just left it in there for this process but you could drain it. The crust shrunk a little during the cooking but the fat level was below the crust so it didn’t effect the rest of the cooking.
I was wonder what the nutritional value of this dish was? And also, what kind of sauce did you use?
This looked interesting so I decided to give it a try tonight. I didn’t have a cast iron frying pan to cook it in but I did have a cast iron pot so I used that instead. It seems to work just fine as a substitute. I selected 90% lean hamburger meat to use so I would have less grease to deal with. Even with that, I sopped up grease with paper towels twice to help dry it out. I also cooked the hamburger twice as long as what was called for, a whole 30 minutes to help the crust be as dry as I could. I realize this wasn’t exactly paleo but between the meat and the toppings, I layed down 4 tablespoons of tomato paste. Next time I may go with tomato sauce instead. I also spiced up the sauce to my own liking. Thanks for recommending this! 🙂
I gave this a try tonight…I don’t have a cast iron pan so I formed the “crust” on a sheet pan and baked it…
I must have over cooked it a little to much… the meat was slightly on the dry side… maybe it was the meat I used? I mixed 2 parts 93/7 with 1 part 80/20
Put it in the oven first and didn’t have that much trouble with the grease.
This dish was awesome and thanks to you I can eat it for 3 more days,thanks for helping the less creative with this site !
Just made this. A deliciously brilliant dish. Loved it!
Doesn’t pizza sauce have a lot of carbs? Is there a substitute that you have used before in the past?
There are two different sauces I use, both are relatively low carb. One is Rao’s Homemade line. They have a few different ones, for pizza I’d probably use their marinara sauce. There is also casa vino which is super low carb as well. I just go to the grocery store and carefully examine the labels till I find the lowest carb ones. If you can find them, they are around 3-4 carbs per serving which isn’t too bad. If you were to just grab generic pizza sauce, yeah it could be 10g of carbs per serving.
I want to make sure I am understanding the nutritional data: it’s 610 calories per 1/4th of the pizza or 610 for the whole pizza? Sorry if it is a silly question but that seems very calorie dense for one slice.
1/4th of the pizza is 610 calories.
Hey there!
I don’t happen to have Cast Iron – is there a way that I can make
this with Stainless Steel?
Thanks – love your recpies!
My husband made this for us last night and it was SO super yummy! Thanks so much for the recipe!!
I just made this recipe only I added some ground pork with my grass fed ground beef for my crust…it was super delicious! Thanks for sharing your recipe!!
What size cast iron skillet would U recommend?
A lot of keto recipes call for eggs, but unfortunately they do not agree with me. Is there any way to make a substitution or make it without eggs? I know things like quiche would be impossible to sub but what about other recipes? Thank you!
Eggs are just a binder. I usually don’t have an issue making meatballs, hamburger patties, etc. without them. You should be fine to omit them, just know it may not stick together so well.
I did lookup a binder replacement. It looks like a decent replacement if you can handle flax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhEgA6VT5qA
I have just made this and the mozzarella has left me with a very watery top! Did you put your mozzarella under your chedder and if so did that stop the wateriness? Thanks for all of these awesome simple recipes!!
So I made this and the crust had scrambled eggs mixed in it. Can you tell me what I did wrong?
just a guess. beat the eggs first and make sure they are very well blended into the meat. also, i believe the recipe would work without the eggs. the meat crust would just be heavier.
I usually just throw the eggs in unscrambled and “knead” them is gently. It’s ok if you can see a bit of egg. It’ll all eat the same!