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Easy Veggie Vegan Pizza with 20 minute Almost No Knead Crust! Pizza Sauce, Veggies, Mushrooms, Kalamata Olives, Garlic + olive oil for amazing flavor, baked to perfection. Dressed with Vegan Parmesan and fresh basil. The Best Simple Vegan Pizza Dough Soy-free Recipe. Can be Nut-free. Pin this post for later. Jump to Recipe
There are all kinds of Pizza on the blog.. With Buffalo chickpeas & ranch, with Tandoori Tempeh, Mediterranean Pizza, or Samosa Pizza, with regular crusts, focaccia crust, gf crusts, yeast-free crusts, deep dish and many more. 35+ Pizzas with 18 different crusts!
I tend to post creative stuff before the usual, don’t I! So today’s post is all about the basic veggie pizza in all its glory. Simple 20 minute crust, topped with mushrooms, peppers, onion, other veggies like zucchini, chopped garlic tossed in olive oil, and kalamata olives over a simple tomato sauce. Baked to perfection, then sprinkled with vegan parmesan (or use any of my other vegan cheese recipes for mozzarella, cheddar), fresh basil and red pepper flakes. Simple and amazing! The garlic tossed in olive oil cooks faster and does not taste raw. Use roasted garlic for variation. I generally chop the mushrooms and mix them with the garlic, add some oregano and thyme and fennel seeds to use it as veggie crumble. For gluten-free crusts, see here.
I also made a video of the whole process! And it is easy.
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Add toppings of choice, slice and serve.
More Pizzas from the blog
- Pizza with chipotle red lentil tomato sauce and vegan ricotta
- Sriracha BBQ Tofu Pizza with almond milk pepperjack
- Deep dish Black eyed pea Pizza
- Buffalo Chickpea Pizza with celery ranch dressing.
If you make the pizza crust or the whole pizza, do leave me a comment and rating below on how it turned out! Tag me on social media if you share.
Easy Veggie Vegan Pizza with 20 minute Crust
Ingredients
No Knead Crust:
- 1 tsp active yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 1/4 cup flour, unbleached white or a combination of white and whole wheat
- 1/3 tsp salt
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano , or other herbs
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder, optional
Pizza toppings
- Red Pizza sauce of choice
- Sliced bell pepper
- Sliced red onion
- thinly sliced white mushrooms
- sliced zucchini or other sliced veggies of choice
- sliced kalamata olives
- 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- fresh basil
- vegan parmesan
- Or use any of my other homemade cheeses like cheddar, feta etc
- pepper flakes
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix warm water, yeast and 1 tbsp flour. Let it sit for a few minutes to activate.
- Add 1 cup flour, salt, herbs and garlic and olive oil and mix in. Add another 3 tbsp flour and mix in. Get your hands in there to mix and knead for a few seconds into a soft slightly sticky dough.. Add another tbsp flour if needed. Gather the dough into a ball and let it sit for 15 minutes in a warm place.
- Add a 1/2 tsp oil over the dough and spread with your hands. Gather the dough into a ball and place on parchment lined sheet.
- Use a bit of flour to spread the dough into a 13 to 14 inch size oval. Spread it depending on on how thick or thin you want the crust to be. Keep the edges thicker than the center (see video). Let it sit for a few minutes. Preheat the oven to 435 degrees F / 220ºc.
- Spread the pizza sauce on the crust. Distribute the sliced veggies, mushrooms and olives evenly.
- Mix chopped garlic with a tsp of olive oil and a pinch of salt and oregano. Sprinkle over the pizza.
- Sprinkle salt over the veggies. Sprinkle meltable vegan cheese on the veggies if using at this point.
- Bake the pizza for 17 to 18 minutes or until golden on the edges. Sprinkle vegan parm of choice, chopped fresh basil, and pepper flakes. Slice and serve!
Video
Notes
Chop the mushrooms and mix with the garlic and olive oil and use. Add some coarsely crushed fennel seeds to the mushroom mixture. Saute the veggies + other sliced seasonal veggies for a few minutes with salt, pepper, garlic and oregano, then add as toppings. Crust Tips: The crust will thicken considerably when baked. If it comes out thick and bread like, it was most likely kept too thick during shaping. Keep spreading the crust using hands or a rolling pin to make a thin large pizza. You will get a hang of the thickness you prefer after baking it a couple of times. Nutritional values based on 1 of 2 serving, does not include additional vegan cheese or toppings.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I made this using combination of unbleached plain flour & little whole wheat flour according to your recipe. The problem I faced was the pizza base was undercooked – almost looked like uncooked, still pretty much a dough though while the top was fully cooked. I’m using halogen oven by the way, do you have any advise? Would it be my pizza dough was too thick as the halogen oven is not big enough? Or perhaps I’ve to change the temperature and cooking time? Thank you!
yes it might be the oven and the thickness of the pizza. Spread it thinner cook 2-4 mins longer. some ovens also dont heat correctly, ie they might be heating a bit less. Once you figure out the time that works for the pizza, you’ll know to add some extra mins in baking for the pizza and other things.
Can’t make the pizza any thinner cuz the halogen oven is small, perhaps I’d try making the recipe into 2 smaller but thinner pizzas instead. Don’t think I’d bake it any longer, the pizza edge did turn golden brown but some of my veggie toppings were burned – does this has anything to do with me stir-frying the veggies first?
What I did was I flipped the pizza over and baked the base till it turned brown. Anyways, I’m going to give it another try tonight!
yes 2 pizzas should work out better. Maybe cover the top lightly with parchment so the heat doesnt burn the top so quickly
Great recipe!! Specially the crust👍🏻👍🏻
Do you use a pizza stone?
nope. just a regular baking sheet
Just had this recipe right now…and wow…it was amazing!!! I am normally skeptical of certain recipes since they don’t necessarily turn out the same as they did on the website. BUT THEN the crust came out perfectly and wow…I am mind-blown over how good it was. I will definitely be using this recipe over and over again! Thanks for sharing it!
can’t wait to try this simple recipe! Do you think whole wheat pastry flour would work?
you can use a mix of wheat and all purpose.Just just whole wheat, it might be dense and harder to spread
I looove this
Do you use active dry yeast or instant (quick rise) yeast?
active dry.
i make this crust with different toppings all the time now and it’s one of my favorite quick, simple meals 😀
awesome!
In the recipe it lists 1 tbsp flour and then
1 1/4 cup flour unbleached white or a combination of white and whole wheat, what kind of flour is used for the 1 tbsp measurement?
any will work
I love pizza, and there are barely any vegan pizzas. The pizza looks very delicious and this is a good meal to feed an army. Thank you very much for the recipe.