Mmmmm... Tasty

Since Jessi started her elimination diet we've been trying to find as many yummy dishes as possible that aren't incredibly difficult to make. It's harder than you'd think. The other day we hit paydirt with a delicious GF/Vegan/Elimination diet friendly "pizza". Here's the recipe:

Yummy Gluten Free, Vegan, Elimination Diet Pizza
1 cup brown rice flour
1 cup chickpea flour
3 cups water
2 tablespoons sunflower oil (for batter)
8 tablespoons sunflower oil (for cooking)
2 tablespoons ground flax seeds (or other substitute for 2 eggs)
2 teaspoons salt

1. Mix the brown rice flour, chick pea flour, water, salt, ground flax and 2 tbsp Oil in a mixer. The mix should be thin and flow relatively fine (this will make the dough thinner when cooking). If your dough is still thick add a little water until it thins.

2. Pour 2 tbsp oil into a hot pan or griddle. Pour out four small batches of batter to make pancake sized crusts.

3. Cook on each side until golden brown (about 4 minutes).

4. Repeat until you run out of batter (ours made 14 little crusts).

5. Place on baking sheet and top as you like. We used pesto, onions, garlic, pine-nuts, almonds and olives.

6. Bake for 5-10 minutes at 400.


They were sooo good. Might have something to do with the amount of oil ;). Jessi toasted the leftover crusts the next day and said they were tasty plain! Yum.

We've discovered a neat Korean market near us called P.A.T.S. (don't know what it stands for). It's a chain and you can find them in other parts of the city. Jessi would be in heaven if she wasn't on her elimination diet because they have all sorts of Asian treats (not just Korean). She's addicted to Laver (seasoned seaweed) right now. I like it because they have inari pods (soy bean curd pods that you put sushi rice in). It's the only sushi I eat! :)

We discovered an Indian market next door to P.A.T.S. that's even more exciting. They had all sorts of yummy things we could eat (lots of GF stuff!). I bought some black salt papadi which are bascially spicy chickpea flour crackers. They also had cheap chickpea and rice flour (along with other flours I didn't know). Most importantly, I finally found a tamarind juice. I've been looking for tamarind for a while but all I've found was the fruit pressed into blocks which is hard to work with. I'm hoping I can whip up a tasty phad thai sauce with this!

UPDATE: Recipezaar published the recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/256657. If you make it please go there and rate the recipe. Tell the world! ;)