Brussels Sprouts Chapati Pizza

WELCOME TO MY BLOG! I’M EVANGELINE. I AM AN RMT AND HOLISTIC HEALTH COACH. I STARTED MY BLOG DURING COVID TO STAY CONNECTED TO MY CLIENTS AND SHARE MY LOVE OF COOKING HEALTHY, AYURVEDIC MEALS.
AYURVEDIC COOKING TAKES A BALANCED, HEALING APPROACH FOR YOUR DAILY COOKING NEEDS. YOU WILL FIND SIMPLE, EASY TO MAKE NOURISHING MEALS I HAVE MADE FOR MY FAMILY, WITH A DOSE OF AYURVEDA & YOGA WISDOM.

A delightfully delicious, light pizza with one of my personal faves, Brussel’s sprouts. You can make this easy on the tummy pizza in under 30 minutes. Tummy friendly because there is no yeast in the chapati dough.

If you are staying away from pizza due to bloating, gas, or constipation, this pizza may be able to help your digestion. Digestive symptoms can arise for various reasons, and it’s also a sign that the friendly bacteria is getting depleted. If digestive symptoms become chronic there could be an overgrowth of Candida albicans yeast made worse by pizza, bread, beer, and sugar. Candida albicans is a fungus that lives harmoniously with the teeming number of friendly bacteria in our gut, however, when they start to take over your gut microbiome, yeast infections develop. Candida albicans yeast feeds off of sugar and yeast in bread, beer and pizza giving rise to symptoms, as the friendly bacteria dwindle in numbers caused by diet and lifestyle choices. Now, this doesn’t mean you have to avoid these foods forever. Minimize or avoid your consumption of sugar, leavened bread and pizza dough, and beer, but more importantly regrow your friendly bacteria and starve the Candida albicans of its food. A probiotic supplement can help kick start the growth, and if you like pizza give this one a try. And if you like thin crust pizzas this recipe is for you too.

Brussels sprouts, Spinach, Pesto, Goat Cheese Chapati Pizza. Yeast in pizza dough can aggravate the gut after a while, and an accumulation of yeast in the gut competes with your friendly bacteria causing bloating, gas, constipation, and other digestive issues.

Brussels Sprouts Chapati Pizza

Yield: One 10-inch thin crust chapati pizza
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes

INGREDIENTS

CHAPATI DOUGH - 5 minutes with kneading

2/3 cup all-purpose einkorn flour, or all-purpose flour (90 grams)
2 Tablespoons plus 2 tsps water (40 grams/40 mL)
1 tsp olive oil

PESTO - 10 minutes

1 cup basil leaves, stemmed
⅓ cup or pine nuts or cashews
⅓ cup olive oil
Pinch of salt

There will be extra pesto for another pizza.

TOPPINGS

4 Brussels sprouts
1/4 medium zucchini cut 1/8 inch rounds
1 handfulof spinach
50 grams goat cheese or omit and top with toasted *pine nuts instead.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350°F / 188°C before making dough and pesto.

2. Make dough, combining flour, salt, water, and olive oil. Combine all together, and knead the dough. Set aside covered with a damp towel.

3. Cut the vegetables thinly, separated into 3 bowls, and coat with olive oil.

4. Make basil pesto- in a food processor, pulse basil and pine nuts or cashews in a food processor until coarse, then add olive oil and salt and pulse a few times more.

5. Roll out the dough on flour-dusted parchment paper, then transfer onto a cookie sheet.

6. Spread pesto on the chapati and top with vegetables, then with cheese.

7. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges of chapati are light golden brown.

   Drizzle with a bit of olive oil right before serving.

Enjoy!

*Pine nuts, as well as almonds are two of the lightest nuts. In an Ayurvedic detox, minimizing fat intake would be advisable for some, but eliminating them all together is not ideal. Yes, do not consume bad fats, but the body needs fat, the good kind that is, like the ones in nuts and seeds, olive oil and ghee. If you’re looking to have pizza while on your fall or spring detox, check out this detox pizza recipe.