Vegan Pizza

Marjan Ely
Dec 27, 2022
3 min read

Updated: Mar 4, 2023

Pizza is the most popular and enjoyable food of all! One can not deny its universal flamboyancy. Pizzas origin from Italy, Naples, was a basic dough, tomato sauce and cheese with basil leaves on top. But over time, pizza evolved into a more sophisticated and mature version. However, pizza always retained its base's origin, chiefly the two ingredients, dough and tomato sauce. Once pizza started becoming a popular dish worldwide, added elements were inevitable.

Pizza ideas are already made when you buy it from outside, but once you decide to make it at home, it becomes your own ingredient choice, and if you make the dough yourself, you enjoy it thoroughly! So why go outside and spend money unnecessarily when you can make your pizza at home, which is comforting and satisfying!? In addition, although many think making pizza at home is difficult, it is not! It is a practice of something you love to eat to make at home!

A pizza can be a combination of meat, cheese, and herbs or a completely meatless one with various vegetables and vegan cheese. The vegan cheese for pizza might taste slightly different from the standard cheese you use, but I promise you still can taste and feel the deliciousness and enjoyment of pizza. I am not saying that I'd expect you to eat vegan pizza all the time, but when you do, the exquisite pleasure of having vegan pizza that comes with your own choice of vegetables is quite as delicious and calm as a mighty meaty pizza! In the meantime, you can also vary your leftover vegetables according to what you have.

As you would think, the oven does not downgrade your pizza or put you off to making it at home! The temperature should be set at the right degree, as pizza can bake adequately and not burn! As said before, I usually put the oven's degree at 180 centigrade for most of my oven cooking, but you can check your oven degree and adjust based on your oven type. I like a moist and not dried-out pizza, certainly a well-cooked pizza, so the pizza does not lose its allure. Please time yourself, which is usually between 20 to 25 minutes.

Lastly, the less stuff and toppings, two or three is the better for pizza and filling the pizza enough. Also, the ingredients and the toppings don't lose their taste, and the pizza tastes better. Secondly, the pizza doesn't bulk up with much stuff and toppings and keeps its marriage between the toppings and the base!

Ingredients

Pizza base:

400 gr self raising flour
300 gr warm water
1 tsp yeast
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt

Pizza sauce:

3 x Fresh Tomatos
1 tbsp tomato purees
1 x tsp lime juice
1 x garlic clove
Olive oil
Salt and black pepper 🧂

Pizza topping:

Mushroom 🍄
Green pepper
Vegan cheese
Basil 🌿
Salt and black pepper 🧂

Instructions

Step 1

Sieve your flour, salt and yeast in a bowl and then add the warm water to the bowl and stir it slowly until it becomes a non sticky dough and leave it to raise for one to two hours ( in the fridge or outside)

Step 2

Peel the tomatoes, then grind them and cook them in a heated pan with olive oil.

Step 3

Add the tomato puree, mashed garlic and lime juice and let it simmer for about 5 minutes

Step 4

Chop the mushrooms and green pepper into even cubes separately

Step 5

Take the dough out make it into a round shape and flat it into 1 cm thickness and lay it in an oven proof pizza pan

Step 6

Lay the sauce evenly around the pizza dough and leave the edges plain

Step 7

Spread the vegan cheese over the pizza base and leave some behind