How to get your kids to eat more vegetables? Zucchini pizza base is the answer.
Ever wondered how to get your fussy kids to eat more vegetables?? short answer: hide them in a pizza base and feed them with this nutritionally dense highly desirable dinner, the whole family will love and enjoy.
This recipe is high in vitamins minerals, fibre, polyphenols and is a delicious additive to your weekly menu. This high fibre recipe is extremely important for the diversity and health of our microbiome. It is recommended that we eat 30-40 different plants each week so our microbes can do their jobs efficiently. This recipe already contains 5 different plants, so your off to a pretty good start even before the toppings. Mother nature has oh so cleverly created plants to contain an abundance of different plant chemicals and indigestible fibres that the human GIT cannot digest or absorb. This portion of the plant is known as fibres (soluble, in-soluble, resistant starch) that pass through the stomach into the digestive tract where they undergo fermentation by our colonic bacteria. This process produces short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that provide our cells with the dose to perform their job efficiently. SCFAs can signal appetite suppression, synthesis vitamins K and some B12 and also serotonin (our happy hormone).
Consuming 30-40 different plants each week may sound difficult, but when there are already 5 in 1 pizza base, you may realise just how achievable it is. You can also make this recipe your own by adding fresh herbs such as rosemary, oregano or thyme and top it with your favourite toppings.
You will need:
2 x zucchini’s finely grated
1 x cup oats
1 x cup quinoa flakes
1/2 x cup almonds
5 x tbsp chia seeds
1 x cup boiling water
1 x tbsp sesame seeds
2 x ybsp olive oil
¼ x cup nutritional yeast
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Grate zucchini finely and set aside.
In a high powered blender, add the oats and quinoa flakes, and blitz until it resembles a flour consistency.
In a separate bowl, add the flour mix, chia seeds nutritional yeast, sesame seeds, salt & pepper and boiling water and allow to sit for 2 minutes for the chia seeds to absorb the water.
Add the zucchini and olive oil and mix thoroughly until combined and allow the chia seeds to soak up the moisture for 2-5 minutes.
Once a dough like consistency is formed, they’re ready to be rolled out into a lined baking tray.
Flatten the dough out until roughly 0.5cm thickness in the tray.
Pop into the oven and bake for 10-15 minutes or until cooked through to the middle.
Top with your favourite toppings and return to the oven until cooked (different toppings will vary cooking time).
