Ground Turkey Crust Pizza (Meatza)

For a tasty change of pace, try this low carb, high protein ground turkey crust pizza. If you’ve had meatza you know that ground turkey or beef can make a delicious gluten free pizza crust. Use your favorite pizza toppings for an easy low carb dinner. Each slice of plain meatza has only 3.6 grams net carbs, 15.7 grams protein and 154 calories.

You might also like this keto Mexican meatza recipe!

I haven’t made meatza (which is a pizza crust made out of ground meat) for a long time. I don’t know why because it’s really tasty and my family loves it. So today I made a keto ground turkey crust pizza with pepperoni and peppers.

This is a super easy dinner to throw together and really quite delicious. Just mix a few ingredients to spice up the ground turkey and make any kind of pizza you want. I like it because it’s a gluten free pizza that’s both low carb and high in protein. Each slice has only has only 3.6g net carbs, 15.7 grams of protein and 154 calories. Plus it’s very filling.

If you’ve never heard of meatza it is simply a crust made from ground meat – usually ground beef, turkey or chicken. Since meat usually has no carbs and is very tasty, it makes a great keto pizza crust.

There are other low carb pizza crust options too. I’ve made a spaghetti squash and cauliflower pizza crust, fathead dough pizza crust even a pepperoni pizza frittata made from eggs!

They are amazing recipes and very delicious so if you are on a keto diet and experimenting with low carb pizzas, they are worth a try. Each taste different and equally delicious IMO.

For the turkey pizza crust I used ground turkey, an egg, parmesan cheese, garlic, Italian seasoning, salt and black pepper. Note you can also use ground chicken or even lean ground beef.

Pizza Sauce: I used a little of Aldi’s Specialty Selects marinara sauce as it’s pretty low carb. I also really like Rao’s marinara  for a pizza sauce. It has the same amount of carbs and I love the taste.

Toppings: Today I used mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, banana peppers and sweet bell peppers. You can use whatever your favorite toppings are on this pizza. Today I’m just showing you the concepts of a pizza crust made from meat – the toppings are optional.

You can all different kinds of cheeses, veggies, fresh herbs, seasonings, etc in your version. I just used what my family likes to eat.

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350°F. Cover a rimmed baking sheet with parchment or silicon mat. If using parchment paper, spray with nonstick cooking spray.

Step 2: To make the ground turkey pizza crust, get out a large bowl  and mix together 1 pound of ground turkey, an egg, parmesan cheese, garlic, Italian seasoning, salt and black pepper.

Mix them together like a meat loaf. On the prepared baking sheet, form the ground turkey mixture into the shape of a pizza (oval or circle) and try to get it uniformly thin using your hands.

Step 3: Place in the preheated oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until the crust is cooked but not browned. Cooking time may vary depending on how thick you make your crust. Just keep checking on it.

Step 4: Once the crust is cooked through, start adding your toppings. Use a low carb sauce, mozzarella cheese and from there add any kind of meat or vegetable you wish.

Step 5: Place it back in the oven and bake for another 5 minutes. Then place it under the broiler to brown the top if you want. Let cool before serving.

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• The thinner you make the turkey crust the less time it takes to cook. So check on it to make sure it is cooked but not too browned. It will cook more when you put on the toppings and pop it back into the oven.
• For a relatively low carb sauce I like Aldi’s Specialty Selects or Rao’s marinara sauce. You can use whatever your favorite pizza sauce is but make sure the carbs are low as some tomato sauces can have a lot of sugar in them.
• As for the rest of your toppings, try to stick to meats and low carb vegetables. Check out this post for low carb vegetable carb counts. I love the flavor combination red onions, bell peppers, mushrooms and pepperoni. You can even use fresh basil and other herbs on top as well as hot pepper flakes for more flavor.

Well I hope you enjoy this keto ground turkey crusty pizza as much as we did. It’s very tasty and filling and I’m sure it will b come a family favorite recipe!

The nutritional information is for 1 piece of plain meatza (without pepperoni or peppers): 154 cals / 8.3g fat / 3.9g carbs / 0.3g fiber / 15.7g protein = 3.6g net carbs