Simple Vegan Pizza from Scratch

Here is a simple recipe for making a veggie pizza from scratch in about a half hour. This recipe includes making the crust, sauce and preparing the toppings. The pizza in this recipe is vegan but it would also work fine with cheese. It may need to be cooked slightly longer for cheese to melt.

Ingredients for the crust

1 and 1/2 cup – Whole wheat flour (or white flour or a mix would work as well)
2 tsp – Baking powder (if available)
1/2 to 1 tsp – Sea salt
2 Tbsp – Olive oil
1/2 to 3/4 cup – Water

Ingredients for the sauce

1/2 of a 6 oz can / jar of Tomato paste
1/4 cup – Water
1 tsp – Basil or any other spices, Oregano or Thyme work well too

Toppings

Any veggies on hand will work. Below are the veggies used on this pizza:

1/2 Onion
1/2 Zucchini
1/2 Carrot
4 or 5 Mushrooms
2 or 3 cloves of Garlic
1 medium Tomato
Red pepper flakes

Directions

Overview

Preheat oven to ~400 degrees

Starting with the crust, put the dry ingredients into a food processor, pulse them. Add the oil. Then add water 1/4 cup at a time processing each 1/4 cup until the dough starts form a ball. So basically add 1/4 cup of water, process a bit, add another 1/4 cup of water, process a bit and if the dough is sticking together then it is ready. If it is still crumby add a little more water, process and repeat until the dough is sticking together but not too sticky. Then roll out the dough and cook for 10 minutes.

While crust is cooking start sauteing the veggies. After 10 minutes take the crust out of the oven. Mix up the ingredients for the sauce and spread it on the crust. Once the veggies are sauted to your desired tenderness place them on the crust. Put pizza back into over for another 10 minutes and it is done!