Sunday, September 10, 2006

Pizza: Barkat White Rice and Brown Rice Gluten Free Pizza Crust

Last week I was shopping in Wegmans and came across ready made pizza crusts on the shelf, not requiring any refrigeration or freezing. They come from Europe under the Barkat brand and they come either as white rice or brown rice pizza crust.

I bought a package of each and tonight my wife and I had a cook off between the two of them. We bought some fresh mozzarella and pre-cooked gluten-free chorizo sausage to top them off.

Preparation:
Take the crusts out of the bag, add toppings, and bake in an oven for 10-15 minutes at 350-400 degrees.

Taste:
Both types of crust (brown and white rice) seemed extremely similar.

I re-checked the ingredients list and it seems as though a celiac shim-sham has taken place. Both are made with the exact same ingredients except the brown rice crust has caramel color added. So in reality it's not made with brown rice, it's made with rice that is colored brown with caramel color.

Level of realism:
The pizza crust wasn't too real, seemed more like a Domino's or Pizza Hut style crust versus a real New York style pizza. My wife felt the crust was near the edge tasted great, the flavor of the crust under the toppings had no flavor or texture.

In the future we are going to try pre-baking the pizza crust before adding the toppings.

2 comments:

Junior said...

We thought this crust took away from the flavor of the toppings...
The one I've(he wouldn't try) liked best so far is ina garden:
http://www.inagardenfoods.com/index.htm
They are going to be carried at Wegman's soon, keep your eyes open!

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