Hey everyone! I haven't made a recipe post in way too long so thanks for staying tuned. I've been working on my cooking at home, trying to expand my social network and checking out other awesome vegan blogs in my spare time. Its been way too hot to cool here the last couple days so it's obviously summer salad season. I usually just live off of salads, sandwiches and wraps in the summer time. Its a nice change from lots of the complicated meals that us health freaks like to cool or bake. I can definitely embrace a raw diet in the summer time. For those of you that are raw during the winter, that is impressive. Maybe it's being brought up in Canada but I need my hot seitan roast and home made stuffing. ANYWAYS getting off topic here a little. June 28th was National Vegan Pizza Day so I figured I'd celebrate by posting my vegan pizza recipe. Vegan pizza is the easiest meal to feed to meat eaters and have them not even notice. My whole family will eat vegan pizza with me as long as I make it! Ha. If you're looking to help your family explore their animal free roots, do a pizza night :) I promise they will not be disappointed!!
Pizza is great because you can put virtually anything on it and as long as it's covered in tomato sauce and dosed with daiya people will love it. Plus if you're picky you can make it exactly to your liking. My favourites are toppings are bell peppers, mushrooms, stuffed olives and artichoke hearts. Add some spinach or kale and you've got yourself the perfect pizza. If that's not to your liking you could try pretty much any vegetable. Some of my other faves are corn, broccoli, tofurky sausage or veggie chorizo. Veggie pizzas are great but those tofurky faux meats are the bomb! Now field roast is back in Canada so you can use those too. They are my favourite, I am so happy to have them back. If you haven't put those on a pizza yet, please do so now. For your own sake. Here's my dough recipe. Enjoy!
Dough recipe
3 cups unbleached white flour or caputo flour (link attached if your interested)
1 packet instant yeast = to 2 1/4 teaspoons
Dash of salt
1 cup warm water
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons pepper
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
Get one cup warm water in a measuring cup and add a dash of salt and stir. Make sure it's not too warm or it'll kill the yeast. It just has to be room temperature. Sprinkle the yeast on top and let stand for ten minutes. In a large bowl add your flour and spices. Stir well. Make a well in the middle and add your yeast and olive oil. Mix together with a fork until a dough begins to form then start to use your hands. Knead for 10 minutes. Add one teaspoon of olive to your bowl and rub it around the sides and on your dough. This make sit so your dough doesn't stick. Place a clean kitchen cloth over the bowl and let rise on the counter for an hour.
This gives you the perfect amount of time to cut up all your veggies, oil your pan and get ready to roll your dough out. This is usually how much I cut up for one large pizza.
Veggie recipe
1 can tomato paste
Half a white onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, diced
5 mushrooms, sliced
10 olives, sliced
Handful of pickled artichoke hearts, diced
Half a pack of tofurky chorizo or 2 tofurky sausages OR field roast vegan sausages
Handful of fresh spinach
One bell pepper, diced
1/2 cup of daiya cheese (I usually use pepper jack) or vegan gourmet cheese (which is really good but so hard to find in Campbell River!) *links attached
Once your dough has risen for an hour you need to preheat your oven to 400. Take your bowl and remove your dough into a lightly floured surface on your counter. Begin to Knead the dough for 10 to 15 minutes. Adding flour as needed. Once it's nice and soft and easy to work with begin to roll it out with your rolling pin. Start from the middle pushing out to create a disk shape. Rotate the dough and flip it over periodically to create the pizza shape for your dough. Keep pushing out further each time to make the circle bigger and bigger. Keep rotating the dough to keep the shape uniform. Once the dough is big and round like a pizza you can begin to bend the edges in and pinch the with a fork to create your crust. Stuff it with vegan cheese if you want! Once you have a dough completely around the edge of your pizza you'll need to to bake it for 5 minutes. This allows the dough to cook thoroughly because veggies don't take nearly as long. Place it on an oiled round pan and place in oven. Once you take it out your ready for the tomato paste. Spread it around with a spoon and cover the whole dough. Add your toppings veggie, meat then cheese. Place as much as you'd like. Using a pizza paddle, a spatula or your hands place the pizza on your oiled round pizza pan. Place in the oven for 15 minutes.
Take your pizza out and allow to cool for 10 minutes before you serve. Slice evenly with a pizza knife and eat!
Thats just a few photos from my vegan pizza gallery :)
Check out my vegan calzone recipe as well! *link attached
I hope you had an awesome vegan pizza day and enjoy this recipe. Its so easy to make the hardest part is waiting for the dough to rise! I would love if everyone would tweet me @theherrrbivore and send me your summer salads with the #hastag #summersalads
Thanks everyone for all your support on my blog and your commitment to a cruelty free lifestyle! Kudos to you!
