AIP Tigernut Flour Pizza Crust
This pizza crust is the perfect homemade option if you’re craving AIP-friendly pizza! It’s made with tigernut flour, tapioca starch and is free of eggs, grains, and other allergens.
Tigernut Flour Pizza Crust
Giving up grains leaves a huge pizza-shaped gap in your heart… it definitely left one in mine. Pizza is by far one of my favorites foods (yes, I’m 100% willing to admit that!) and I never thought I’d be able to have anything like it after making changes to my diet. Luckily, that isn’t true!
This tigernut flour pizza crust is grain-free, paleo, AIP, and an easy at-home option for having pizza! You can use it along with any toppings of your choice for a grain-free pizza night.
The Ingredients for the Tigernut Flour Pizza Crust
- Tigernut flour. This is the main crust ingredient for this pizza.
- Tapioca starch. You can likely also use arrowroot starch.
- Olive oil. You can also use avocado oil.
- Gelatin powder. This is used to make the gelatin egg. Collagen will not work as a swap.
How To Make AIP Tigernut Flour Pizza Crust
- Prepare the crust: Using a medium mixing bowl, sift the tigernut flour and tapioca starch together. Stir in the olive oil, baking soda, apple cider vinegar, and salt. Set aside.
- Prepare the gelatin egg: Add the water to a small saucepot and slowly pour over the gelatin. Allow to harden. Place the pot on the stove and turn it on low heat. Slowly melt the gelatin (this will take just a minutes) and remove it from the heat. Vigorously whisk the gelatin egg until it becomes frothy. Add the gelatin egg to the pizza dough immediately and stir well to combine.
- Form the crust: Grease your hands with olive oil and form the pizza dough into a ball. Place onto the baking sheet and flatten to an 8″ circle.
- Bake: Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 15-17 minutes or until hardened. Remove from the oven, add desired toppings and bake for another 3-5 minutes (depending on the toppings).
Can you make this pizza crust ahead of time?
You can fully cook the crust ahead of time to save for later. However, the crust needs to be immediately cooked once prepared, so I wouldn’t save or freeze the raw crust.
Is tigernut a nut?
Tigernut is actually not a nut, but a tuber, like sweet potato. It’s grain-free, nut-free, and paleo-friendly. Learn more about tigernut flour here.
Where do you buy tigernut flour?
Some health food stores have it, but I find it easiest to buy tigernut flour online from retailers like amazon or thrive market.
Can you use other flours for this pizza crust?
You can likely swap tapioca and arrowroot in this recipe. However, switching out tigernut flour for different ones would change the whole recipe too much, so I don’t recommend trying to swap 1:1 in this recipe.
I have another pizza crust recipe without tigernut flour here!
What can you use for topping this crust?
- Nomato sauce
- AIP cheese (like this AIP Mozzarella cheese)
- Cooked ground beef
- Cooked shredded chicken
- Oven Baked Meatballs
- Vegetables of your choice
You’ll also love…
- Cauliflower Breadsticks
- Zucchini Pizza Crust
- Sweet Potato Lasagna
- Spaghetti Squash Pizza Casserole
- Pizza Dough Snack Bites
AIP Tigernut Flour Pizza Crust
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 20
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Main Dishes
- Method: Baked
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
This pizza crust is the perfect homemade option if you’re craving AIP-friendly pizza! It’s made with tigernut flour, tapioca starch and is free of eggs, grains, and other allergens.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup tigernut flour
- 1/3 cup tapioca starch
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tbsp gelatin
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet with lightly greased parchment paper.
- Using a medium mixing bowl, sift the tigernut flour and tapioca starch together. Stir in the olive oil, baking soda, apple cider vinegar, and salt. Set aside.
- For the gelatin egg, add the water to a small saucepot and slowly pour over the gelatin. Allow to harden. Place the pot on the stove and turn it on low heat. Slowly melt the gelatin (this will take just a minutes) and remove it from the heat. Vigorously whisk the gelatin egg until it becomes frothy. Add the gelatin egg to the pizza dough immediately and stir well to combine
- Grease your hands with olive oil and form the pizza dough into a ball. Place onto the baking sheet and flatten to an 8″ circle.
- Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 15-17 minutes or until hardened. Remove from the oven, add desired toppings and bake for another 3-5 minutes (depending on the toppings).
- Slice and serve once slightly cooled.
Notes
All nutritional information are estimations and will vary. Estimations do not include optional ingredients.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 159
- Fat: 12.3g
- Carbohydrates: 14.9g
- Fiber: 7.5g
- Protein: 3g
I just made this as a focaccia and it turned out great! I subbed arrowroot instead of tapioca flour because cassava does not agree with me. Thanks!
Yay, so glad you enjoyed!!
If wanting a larger pizza, would you recommend doubling recipe or just making two separate crust? Thank you for all your help navigating AIP & love your cookbook, can’t wait for another!
Personally I’d make 2 separate ones just so you don’t run into issues with it holding up!
First, thank you for your work and experimenting with these ingredients! I have been looking for recipes like this: simple, clean, and tasty! This pizza recipes was easy to make, held my ingredients without falling apart, and was neutral in taste. I will roll it out thinner next time.
Thank you so much!!
I made this last night, it was pretty good, simple crust. It was a little bready but i think i just needed to roll it out thinner. Otherwise it was sturdy and held toppings well, and because it was a mostly tigernut base, it was not remotely gummy 🙂 would make again.
Can you use an egg instead of the gelatin egg?
I haven’t tried it, but it should work the same!
Can I use a regular egg instead of gelatin??
Hi Michelle!! Do you think I could incorporate some purée cauliflower into this crust? Maybe like a half cup? Thanks!! -Maryellen Basham
You probably can, just want to be aware of excess moisture!
Getting excited to make pizza for the weekend and short question: could I use agar-agar instead of gelatin? I just maybe should google the correct ratio for substitution
I’m not sure about agar agar since I don’t really work with it!
Hi dea, can i sub tapioca with arrowroot?
You should be able to!
Can I use a flax egg instead of gelatin? Can’t wait to try this out!
A flax egg would likely work!!
Can I use agar agar instead of gelatin?
I don’t really work with agar agar, so not sure!
Can you substitute cassava flour?
Switching out tigernut flour for different flours would change the whole recipe too much, so I don’t recommend trying to swap in this recipe.