How to Make Vegan Pizza
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Vegan Pizza Recipe
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Serves: 4
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Difficulty: Easy
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Prep Time:
1 hour 15 mins -
Cook Time: 15 mins
If you’re struggling for vegan pizza ideas to accompany your movie marathon, our homemade vegan pizza is the inspiration you’ve been seeking. A classic-inspired (vegan) margarita with a crisp, fluffy base, it’s the answer to your vegan pizza prayers.
What you'll need
- 500g bread flour
- 1 tsp dried yeast
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 1 ½ tbsp olive oil
- 100ml passata
- ½ tsp oregano
- 1 crushed garlic clove
- 200g grated vegan mozzarella (or vegan cheese of your choice)
- Salt
Method
- Put flour, yeast, and sugar into a bowl.
- Mix 150ml of cold water and 150ml of boiling water in a jug. Add 1 tsp of salt to the water before adding the olive oil.
- Pour the water over the flour and mix with a spoon. Start to knead when it comes together until it forms a soft, pliant dough.
- Dust the surface with flour and knead the dough for 10 minutes before placing back into the bowl and covering it with cling film that has been greased. Leave for 1 hour.
- Heat oven to 220 degrees centigrade and insert a pizza stone or a baking sheet. Leave to heat up.
- Knock back the dough by punching it a couple of times before kneading once more.
- Put passata, oregano, and garlic into a bowl, season with salt and pepper, and mix.
- Divide the dough into 2, shape it into balls and flatten with either a rolling pin or your hands. Dust another baking sheet with flour and place the pizza base on top.
- Spread 4- 5 tablespoons of sauce onto the dough and sprinkle over the vegan cheese.
- Place the tray on top of the preheated tray already in the oven. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes. (You’ll see it bubbling.)
- Serve and enjoy your homemade vegan pizza. (Toppings at chef’s discretion. We don’t make the rules!)
Tips & Tweaks:
A vegan pizza dough recipe relies on thorough kneading; ensure that the dough is kneaded until stretchy. Then, knead some more. (Excellent for working out excess aggression.)
A strong base supports tasty toppings. But if you’re topping with fresh vegetables, ensure they’ve been drained and dried before adding to the base to avoid excess moisture seeping into the dough.
Food Fact:
Technically, the furthest a pizza has ever been delivered is 250 miles. Yes, you read that right. The recipient of this long-distance pizza was Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Usachov and the Russian government paid more than 73814500.00 rubles for its delivery. It was a six-inch Margherita.
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