What do you do when you are craving pizza and have already used your Healthy Extra b allowance? You make this low syn MEATZZA of course.

How I haven’t put my recipe of the ever so popular Meatzza up on the blog, I have no idea. Because it is seriously delicious.

I have been making meatzza’s for years, truth be told I actually prefer this to a regular pizza now. You might think I am bonkers, but all that carbs and bread on a regular pizza does not agree with me and leaves me feeling rather icky.

I first starting making Meatzza’s when I did a stint of paleo a few years back because of ongoing health issues.

I love pizza, so it was important for me to be able to enjoy something similar when I was on a restriction of so many foods, in fact, I wasn’t even eating dairy during that stint of paleo, so my meatzza recipe, didn’t even include any cheese at the time , and it was still yummy.

Now I have introduced certain foods back into my diet, I know exactly what I have to limit and what I don’t. So usually when I fancy pizza, I go low on the bread and just use a small Healthy Extra B pita bread, like on these delicious pizza recipes:

• Pulled Pork Pizza
• BBQ Chicken Pizza
• Roasted Vegetable Pizza

and then, of course, there are also these amazing gluten free options which I love too.

• Sweet Potato Pizza Crust
• Cauliflower Pizza Crust

or if you just want any kind of pizza type dish, there are also the following:

• Pizza Fries
• Breakfast Omelette Pizza
• Portobello Mushroom Pizzas
• Pizza Topped Baked Sweet Potato
• Breakfast Hash Brown Pizza
• Syn Free Pizza Toasts

That’s a whole load of different pizza recipes to satisfy those pizza cravings right?

But how do you make Meatzza? Well, it depends on who you ask. You only have to google the word “meatzza” and you will be greeted with pages and pages of Meatzza recipes to choose from. This, however, is how I make mine and my whole family love it. So it’s the recipe I have stuck to, every time I make this.

Firstly let me explain what a meatzza actually is. It’s a large patty of ground meat, molded into a kind of pizza base shape replacing the usual dough pizza bases, and then baked in the oven before adding your choice of toppings, before being baked again just like you would a traditional pizza. To melt all that yummy cheese.

Many recipes use an egg in the meat mixture, but I personally do not like the result that gives. So instead I add a magic ingredient – which is a little bit of starch – either tapioca, arrowroot or corn starch will do. Of course using the starch does add some syns, but it’s only a tiny amount, so when divided up into servings, is hardly anything at all.

If you really want to keep this syn free, then, by all means, omit it, but the cornstarch really does work wonders, it stops the meat drying out and becoming crumbly, and helps it to hold its shape.

I also use a quiche dish which is 10.5 inches to bake the meatzza in, mainly because again it helps the base stay moist and stops it drying out. Using a flat tray means all the juices will drain off away from the meat. What you want is for the base to absorb most of those juices back into the base as it cooks on its second placement in the oven with the toppings. Trust me, doing those two things above, will result in a really delicious meatzza base.

Then, of course, all that is left to do is decide on toppings. I never add meat toppings, because you have all that protein in the base, but feel free to add some if you want.

For the pizza sauce, there are a couple of things you can use. Make up a batch of my amazing Syn Free Pizza Sauce or if you want a more BBQ style pizza use this Syn Free BBQ Sauce instead of regular pizza sauce. But if you are rushed for time and have neither of those available. In the recipe below I give you my cheat’s version Pizza Sauce, which is just as delicious as the former two.