Check out this very creative and delicious-looking charcuterie board. There's something for everyone with sweet and savory snacks.
Cook's Notes: A very tasty game day or snack food filled with loads of flavor. Each bite is only 101 calories. The ones I made were a bit more in calories as I was cleaning out the refrigerator. I added in crumbled Italian sausage and cheddar cheese. The recipe calls ricing a head of cauliflower which sounded like way too much work. I used a frozen bag of riced cauliflower and microwaved it according to package directions.
The recipe makes 10 cauliflower pizza bites. It does require a little extra preparation cutting out 10-5 inch parchment squares.
Recipe adapted from allrecipes.com
Ingredients:
- 1 large head cauliflower, cut into large chunks or one bag frozen riced cauliflower (10 oz.)
- 2 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- ½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ⅓ cup pizza sauce
- Optional 1 cup crumbled sausage and using some cheddar cheese
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Grate cauliflower into a microwave-safe bowl using a fine grater. Chop up any remaining pieces that are too small to grate but too big for the crust.
- Microwave cauliflower until soft and tender, 4 to 6 minutes. Pour cauliflower into a clean dish towel roll to squeeze out moisture. Optional using microwave riced cauliflower.
- Combine riced cauliflower, 1 cup mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, egg, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning in a large bowl. Refrigerate 30 minutes to firm up the mixture so easier to work with.
- Scoop cauliflower crust mixture onto prepared parchment paper, dividing the mixture evenly among the parchment squares. I used a cookie scoop for this step.
- Place each wrapped pizza bite in the muffin pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 12 minutes.
- Spoon a small amount of pizza sauce onto each cauliflower crust. Top with remaining 1-1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, dividing evenly among the crusts.
- Bake until golden brown and cheese is melted, about 15 minutes more. Let sit in the pan for 5 minutes before moving each bite to a cooling rack. Let cool for 10 minutes. Peel parchment paper squares off the crusts and serve on a platter or leave wrappers on.
