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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Eric Wynkoop - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Eric Wynkoop in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to co… Read More.

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Question:

I would love to make a pizza crust that is at least partially made with cauliflower and doesn’t contain oil.?

— Roy Doernhofer

Answer:

We've got a rouxbe all cauliflower 100% cauliflower pizza crust recipe which is posted for you right now. On your screen and you can follow the link to that and you know this particular crust uses. It might use chia seeds. As a as the binder. For the small pieces of cauliflower like that cauliflower rice. So to speak it uses, you know, that that sticky gelatinous substance as a binder, you know, as you set it up on the sheet pan essentially for drying and you're going to line that sheet pan with a Silpat or some parchment paper and while the recipe does not talk about lightly oiling the the silicone baking mat or the parchment paper, you might consider doing that. Sometimes I have had better success with a light coating of oil otherwise some of the gelatinous substances and can stick even to a silicone baking mat. Okay, but you know that aside just another comment that I'll make on this recipe is Um, give it some thickness. Okay, so that the finished product has some structure and that you can flip it or remove it from the sheet pan without the whole thing crumbling apart and with you know, most any sort of cooking right the repetition and experience is going to bring you deeper understanding in Greater success. So be prepared to make it perhaps more than once, okay. Um, I mean, otherwise, you know, a household oven is quite adequate, you know, household ovens typically heat up, you know 450 or 4 or 500 degrees Fahrenheit, which is plenty hot for any sort of pizza crust activity and certainly for the drying that's called for for this particular recipe. Of course, if you're using an oven with some relatively high heat you're going to get some caramelization some Browning which is also flavor is well on the finished product. We've also had students that will use this recipe and but put it into a dehydrator and that works as well. And so there's a couple of ways forward in terms of extracting the moisture which is essentially what the baking process does. Okay in this case. All right, so please give that a try and I mean, otherwise you don't Want to add oil to the cauliflower mixture itself because that acts as a lubricant and acts against The Binding properties of that gelatinous substance where there's chia seeds or something else that you might be using. Okay. Happy cooking to you. Thank you.

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