Vegan Pizza

On flat bread with tomato pesto sauce

On homemade crust with vegan white sauce

Here is the promised pizza recipe! I'm going to give you a list of the toppings I use and a couple of ways I have made it, and you can figure out how you like it! 

This is another recipe that my husband says tastes delicious as long as you aren't expecting it to taste like a "real" pizza. So keep that in mind. :)

Vegan Pizza

1) Choose your toppings
sweet onion, sliced
zucchini, sliced
red bell pepper, sliced
mushrooms, sliced
tomato, sliced
artichoke hearts, chopped
spinach, chopped

2) Choose your sauce
Tomato Pesto (posted earlier)
1 8-oz. can of tomato sauce
4 cloves of garlic, peeled
1/2 cup raw cashews
3/4 cup fresh basil (packed tightly)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast

Pulse tomato sauce and garlic in a food processor until the garlic is chopped and incorporated. Add cashews, basil, and nutritional yeast and combine very thoroughly. Scrap down the sides of the food processor bowl as needed.

If your food processor has a hard time chopping up nuts, you can presoak the cashews in water for an hour or even over night. Just drain them before you use them.

Yields 1 heaping cup.

Vegan White Sauce (also posted earlier)
2 TBSP extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1–2 TBSP sweet onion, minced
3 TBSP whole wheat flour (or other whole grain flour)
1 cup almond milk
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
2 TBSP fresh basil, minced (optional, but really recommended)

Heat oil in sauce pan over medium heat. Sauté onion and garlic in oil for a few minutes. Add flour to oil mixture and combine thoroughly. Whisk in almond milk, a little at a time. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and add remaining ingredients. Simmer for about five minutes, or until thickened. Sauce will thicken even more upon cooling.

3.) Choose your crust
whole wheat flat bread (pictured in photo)
whole wheat pita pocket
homemade pizza crust (here is a link to one that I have used)

4.) Put it all together
Cover your crust with a thick layer of sauce. Layer on all the toppings. Press them firmly into the sauce. Bake crust according to recipe instructions, or if you are using a pita or flat bread, 10–15 minutes in a 350° oven should do it!

The brand of flat bread I used was really, really thin, which I didn't like as much as the homemade pizza dough. But, it did have the advantage of taking a fraction of the time and labor to prepare!