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This buffalo chickpea pizza was waiting to be edited and posted. This Pizza is based on the Buffalo chikun Pizza from Pizza Pi in Seattle. The spicy tangy Buffalo sauce, a generous amount of white garlic sauce and celery ranch sauce and oh my, It is so good!
If you have the pizza dough ready, then this Pizza is a breeze to put together too. Mix up the buffalo sauce and chickpeas, make the blender sauces. Layer them all up, Bake and serve. Vegan, palm oil free and soy free! Easily gluten-free with my gf crusts. btw buffalo sauce has nothing to do with the animal Buffalo but everything to do with the location it was created at, Buffalo, NY.
More Pizzas from the blog including this Sriracha BBQ Tofu and Pepper jack Pizza, Jalapeno Popper Pie Deep Dish, Samosa Pizza, Mediterranean with almond feta, Deep Dish Lasagna Pizza and more here.
This Buffalo Chickpea Pizza! Make some today!
Reading this week.
This Vanity Fair Article on Sam Simpson. Diagnosed with terminal cancer two years ago, and given only months to live, Sam Simon is still alive and still racing to spend the fortune he made as co-creator of The Simpsons on causes he loves, whether he is rescuing grizzly bears (and chinchillas and elephants) or funding vegan food banks.
It only needed Ethan Brown to show up in the latest issue of Fast Company, to get hubbs very intrigued about trying out all the Beyond Meat Products.
Buffalo Chickpea Pizza with White Garlic Sauce and Celery Ranch Dressing
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Easy pizza dough
- or my white garlic crust
- or any of my gluten free crusts
For the Buffalo Sauce Chickpeas
- 3 Tbsp hot sauce
- 1.5 Tbsp Sriracha hot sauce
- 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 15 oz can chickpeas , or 1.5 cups cooked chickpeas
White Sauce Base
- 1/2 cup ground cashew
- 3/4 cup almond milk
- 2 tbsp flour , or 1 Tbsp arrowroot starch
- 2/3 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- a very generous dash of black pepper
For the garlic sauce
- 2/3 of the white sauce from above
- 4 cloves of roasted garlic , or 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp italian herb blend
- 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
Celery ranch sauce
- 1/3 of the white sauce from above
- 1/2 tsp ranch seasoning
- 1/2 tsp celery seeds
- 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Make the pizza dough according to recipe. Use double the pizza dough recipe to make 2 pizzas.
- Make the Buffalo chickpeas: Mix everything under buffalo chickpeas. Mash a few chickpeas and let sit and marinate while you prep the sauce.
- Make the White sauce: Blend all the ingredients under white sauce base until well combined into a smooth sauce.
- Make the White Garlic sauce: Take about a 2/3 part of the white sauce from above and add garlic sauce ingredients. Mix well. Taste and adjust and mix or blend.
- Make the Celery Ranch: Add the ranch seasoning, celery and vinegar and mix and keep ready.
- Shape the pizza dough to a 10 inch rounds with thick edges so the sauce does not flow off the pizza during baking. Brush olive oil on it. Drizzle enough garlic sauce on the dough to coat. Add spinach or greens or other veggies of choice.
- Layer buffalo chickpeas on the greens. Drizzle some buffalo sauce from the marinade.
- Drizzle a generous amount of celery ranch. Add vegan mozzarella cheese shreds (optional). Try any of my cheeses
- Bake at pre-heated 425 degrees F / 220ºc for 14 minutes. Broil for a minute to crisp.
- Drizzle any leftover garlic sauce or celery ranch before serving.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Richa.. What hot sauce do you suggest for the 3 tbs hot sauce in the chickpeas?
We thoroughly enjoyed your easy vegan vege pizza.. Yum.
franks hot sauce
Hi Richa! Just wanted to let you know that my husband and I have been making this pizza every Friday night for the past 4 years, in 3 different apartments + cities. We’ve memorized the steps and ingredients to the point that we can get it all prepped and in the oven in 12 minutes flat (dough prep notwithstanding). We even wanted it as an app at our wedding but the caterer wasn’t up to the task! Lol. To us, this recipe represents our love and comfort with one another. So, thank you for sharing.
So awesome!!
Can’t wait to try this! Does the nutritional info include the crust?
it included just he flour, i updated it to include the basic pizza crust
Hi Richa – My daughter is allergic to cashews (and walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, pistachios, pine nuts). Would almonds work as a substitute or is there another alternative that would work well? Thank you.
what about macadamia. you might need to use almond flour and a tbsp of flour so that the sauce is smooth enough
I doubled this for my family and it was a winner! But I do have a question–I didn’t see a specific recipe titled “easy pizza crust” so I did the “basic pizza crust” which already seems to be a double recipe. I went ahead and doubled it anyway, and it made two large thick crusts that filled up two cookie sheets. It was great but wondering if this is the crust you intended and if I could make them the same size with half the recipe if we wanted a thinner crust?
Also, I was originally so bummed to only have one can of chickpeas left (since I was doubling), and ended up chopping up half of a large head of cauliflower, and crumbling a half a block of tofu. Used some thawed frozen spinach underneath that mixture. It was awesome! Seems like a fool-proof recipe.
awesome! yes you can use that one. Add some oil for a softer crust as that one is oilfree
the easy crust is easier for handling and easier to make thin or fat quickly
Great vegan pizza recipe! Replacing chickpeas with zucchini will make this pizza recipe ketogenic diet friendly, or even vegan-ketogenic diet friendly! Vegan-keto sounds complicated, but the health benefits offered are just too good. Vegans can do the ketogenic diet, and keto can go vegan.
This was a hit! It was a bit spicy for the youngest teen but everyone loved it. With a giant salad on the side we were set for Super Bowl. Thank you!
awesome!
As an Italian, I can say that I love the idea of using chickpeas on top of a pizza and a cashew cream instead of tomato sauce.
The taste is very nice! I used spinach under the chickpeas and I didn’t have celery seeds so I used a tsp of celery leaves. I don’t know if the seeds have a similar taste.
Are celery seeds used in India? If yes, what are they called?
I find the chickpeas to be a bit too hot. I will reduce the amount of hotness but I loved the creaminess and taste of the garlic and ranch cream.
Thanks for sharing your recipes!
This was amazing! The whole family loved it. Thank you!
awesome!!
This is my go to vegan pizza! Nothing comes close. I have never had a non vegan friend not be amazed by this pizza. Thanks for this amazing recipe and several of your other recipes that are staples at my house.
yay!!