I used to be all about the frozen pizzas. Delissio here, Dr. Oetker there. And then I switched to a vegan diet and BAM. Those pizzas were a no-no for me. Which is a good thing anyway, considering how high they are in salt, sugar and other crap your body doesn’t need.
So, I started making my own pizzas at home. Okay, so, my husband is usually the one that makes them, but I always assist with toppings, so that counts.
I love that I can experiment with different flours, different sauces and different toppings, and still come out with a tasty, healthy pizza (usually). This is one of them!
Even though everyone on the planet seems to be able to, I can’t make a circular pizza to save my life, so I made them rectangular. The pizza still tastes the same, so who cares, right?
- ¾ cup warm water (not hot, not cold)
- 1¾ cup flour (I used 1 cup whole wheat, ¾ cup kamut)
- 2½ tsp active dry yeast
- ½ tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 large garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- ⅓ cup pine nuts (I've also used cashews or almonds)
- 4 cups fresh basil leaves
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Whatever your heart desires! (I used zucchini, yellow pepper, kalamata olives and tomatoes)
- Dissolve yeast and sugar in water and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
- Pre-heat oven to 500F.
- Add flour and salt to the yeast and sugar. Mix until combined.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead for 3-4 minutes.
- Press dough into a large circle and place it on a lightly greased pizza pan (or sprinkle some cornmeal on a wooden pizza wheel (to later slide onto a pizza stone in the oven).
- Add all sauce ingredients to a food processor or high-powered blender and process/blend until smooth.
- Spread the sauce on the pizza crust, add your toppings, and bake in the pre-heated oven for about 10 minutes, or until the edges have lightly browned and the middle of the pizza is cooked all the way through.
JKat says
May 4, 2017 at 10:28 PMSorry, I commented the wrong recipe– this was meant for the vegan cauliflower mac ‘n cheese.
JKat says
May 4, 2017 at 10:25 PMI made this forgetting that I didn’t have any nutritional yeast.
to make up for it:
-added 1 cup soaked cashews
-added ~1tsp each garlic powder, onion powder (instead of only 1/2 tsp) mustard powder, curry powder, chili powder, turmeric
-sprinkled my serving with a small amount of tex mex seasoning.
Wow! This is fantastic! I will definitely be making again. I wish I’d added a little less mustard powder (1/2t). Thank you for the great recipe!