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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.
Made this tonight and I loved it. Since giving up meat, I sometimes miss buffalo wings the flavor combinations in this recipe, including the celery ranch, were spot on. I might even just mix up the buffalo chickpeas sometime .
Yay Awesome!! Yes, use them any way you like. in wraps and stuff.
I have some leftover white sauce. Any ideas for using it?
toss in some pasta and blanched or roasted veggies.
We made this tonight. One pizza with Tofurkey chicken and the other with chickpeas. Oh man. SO good. Had to tell you immediately – SO GOOD!!!!!!
Awesome!!!
Holy Pizza! Eating it right now. Really good. Extra Sriracha on top. Phew! Yum!
My first ever vegan pizza!!! And it WAS THE BOMB!!! So freaking good and so easy to make. I ended up finding a vegan pre-made pizza crust at the store, and just using that, so the entire recipe took maybe 10-15 minutes to pull together. Fabulous! I am definitely making this again soon. I only recently went vegan and pizza has been by far my biggest craving! I didn’t miss meat at all went I went vegetarian, but pizza has been really hard to give up (that ooey gooey cheesy goodness!!!). So this was a wonderful, healthy substitute. Thanks Richa!!
i know right. Outside of the pizza dough, its just 15 mins and then wait to bake 🙂 So glad you loved it!
For the ground cashews are they already ground before you measure the 1/2 cup? or do you measure out half a cup and then grind them up?
they are measured after. So they are 1/2 cup of powdered/ground. Take a loaded 1/2 cup raw cashews and blend them until mostly powdery. They will yield about 1/2 cup ground.
ok thank you so much:) I’m making this tonight! I can’t wait to try it
I made this recipe into calzones last night and it was amazingly delicious; my husband and I both loved it. Thank you for the wonderful ranch dressing mix, it is now my go-to to make vegan ranch dressing.
Awesome!!
I agree about the ranch dressing! Made this pizza last night and didn’t use a packet of ranch seasoning but made my own with onion powder, garlic powder and parsley flakes. I wish I would have doubled the dressing to use it all week, it was so delicious. And paired really well with the tangy “buffalo” chickpeas. Best vegan pizza ever.
Hi Richa! This looks like such a great recipe, I can’t wait to try it! One question- are the ground cashews soaked first and then ground, or just regular raw cashews that have been ground up in a food processor? Thanks!
raw dry cashews that are ground. You can use soaked cashews(the same amount) and blend with the rest of the ingredients as well. the ground cashews reduce the prep time.