Chickpea Flour Pizza with Asparagus Recipe

This chickpea flour pizza has the best gluten-free crust around! Top it with your go-to pizza toppings, or use this beautiful hummus & asparagus combo.

Move over cauliflower crust pizza, we’ve got chickpea flour pizza!

Whenever I announce that we’re having “pizza night!” Jack gets excited. But when I follow it with “gluten free pizza night!,” he knows that he’s about to work with overly sticky dough that he can’t toss in the air.

Air-tossing aside, this chickpea flour dough was easy to work with, and we both enjoyed making (and eating) this pizza, which comes from the book Chickpea Flour Does it All, by Lindsey Love. Lindsey is also the creator of one of my absolute favorite food blogs – Dolly and Oatmeal. I’m sure many of you are fans of hers as well. If you’re not, go check out her site! It’s jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and it’s full of gluten-free and dairy-free recipes.

But this book – it’s so good! I don’t have very much experience cooking with chickpea flour, but I’m inspired to use it more since it’s so nutritious. I also made her Lavender Vanilla Cupcakes and was blown away by how good they were. I actually made them twice because the first batch disappeared too quickly.

This dough recipe requires a few extra ingredients that you might not have on hand, but once I had them all, I could easily make the rest of the recipes in the book.

This chickpea flour pizza crust would be delicious with regular pizza toppings – sauce, cheese, or vegan cheese, but I followed Lindsey’s cue and made this light & lovely salad pizza. I couldn’t find green asparagus, so I used white. And her recipe calls for pea shoots, which I couldn’t find, so I used arugula.

This recipe made two medium sized chickpea flour pizzas, which was enough for us for two dinners. We made the dough, baked half of it one night, and the other half the next night. Lindsay notes that the crust also freezes well, so check out the recipe notes for her suggestions.

Oh, and go get her book! (CLICK!)

If you’re a fan of veggie-packed pizzas, go try this zucchini pizza, this vegan pizza, or this berry + basil pizza next!

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Chickpea Flour Pizza with Asparagus

Recipe from: Chickpea Flour Does It All, by Lindsey Love

Author: Jeanine Donofrio

Ingredients

Dough*

1 ¼ cups warm water (105°–115°F)
1 teaspoon natural cane sugar
1 packet instant yeast (approximately 2 ¼ teaspoons)
1 cup (140 g) brown rice flour
1 cup (120 g) chickpea flour
½ cup (55 g) sorghum flour, plus more for dusting
½ cup (60 g) arrowroot powder
2 teaspoons psyllium husk powder
1 ½ teaspoons sea salt
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Toppings

1 bunch asparagus (456 g), peeled into ribbons
2 tablespoons capers
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 ½ teaspoons lemon juice
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
2 cups (112 g) pea shoots
8 ounces garlic hummus, or hummus of choice

Instructions

In a mixing bowl, whisk together the water and cane sugar until dissolved; sprinkle in the yeast and let the yeast proof for about 10 minutes, until the surface is foamy and bubbly; if yeast does not proof, start over with more yeast.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, arrowroot, psyllium husk, and salt. Make a well in the center of the bowl and add the yeast mixture and oil. Using a dough hook on an electric mixer or a paddle attachment on a stand mixer, mix the dough until smooth. Dough should be able to hold its form but be sticky to the touch. If the dough is too sticky and not able to hold its form, add more chickpea flour 1 tablespoon at a time until the dough is firmer. Cover the dough in the bowl loosely with plastic wrap and allow dough to rise in a warm place for 30 to 45 minutes, until roughly doubled in size.
Place a wire rack at the lowest position in your oven, place a baking stone or baking sheet on it, and preheat oven to 500°F (260°C).
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and lightly dust them with sorghum flour. Using a dough scraper, divide the dough into two even pieces; gently form each piece of dough into a ball. Place a piece of dough on each prepared piece of parchment; dust the dough with a light coating of flour and press it into an 11-inch round, working your fingers from the inside of the dough to the outside until the crust is about ¼ inch thick, dusting with more flour as needed.
Cover the dough loosely with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise once more for 15 to 20 minutes; dough should puff up slightly and be springy to the touch.
While the dough is rising again, prepare the toppings. In a large bowl, combine the asparagus, capers, 2 teaspoons of oil, and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice; season with salt and pepper. In a separate bowl, combine the pea shoots with the remaining 1 teaspoon of oil and ó teaspoon lemon juice; season with salt and pepper; set aside.
Use a pizza peel or cookie sheet to gently slide one piece of parchment with the dough onto the baking stone and bake for 5 minutes, until the dough is slightly golden and a bit stiff. Use the peel to slide the dough out of the oven, and spread half the hummus over top of the pizza; then distribute half the asparagus and capers over the hummus; place back in the oven and bake until the edges are lightly browned and crisp and asparagus is lightly charred in places, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove the pizza from the oven and top with pea shoots. Let the pizza rest for 5 minutes to let the pea shoots wilt a bit. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Repeat with remaining dough and toppings.

Notes

*Note: Pizza dough can be stored in the freezer for up to 1 month. To thaw, remove from the freezer the morning of, or at least 5 hours before cooking, and allow the dough to come to room temperature. If not using the dough right away, store in the refrigerator until ready. Prepare the dough as directed.

Recipe from Chickpea Flour Does It All: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegetarian Recipes for Every Taste and Season © Lindsey S. Love, 2016. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment. Available wherever books are sold. theexperimentpublishing.com