How to Make or Buy Good Vegan Pizza
Pizza is one of the world’s most popular foods, and with good reason. It’s cheap and quick to make, very tasty, can be easily customised and filling too! Plus you save energy bills, and it does not require long cooking time. Let’s learn how to make vegan pizza!
Keep fresh dough away from children and pets. Read more on food safety for people and pets. Just bin tomato and allium scraps (garlic, onion, shallots, chives, leeks), as acids could harm compost compost creatures.
Don’t give leftover pizza crust to garden birds or wildfowl (could choke, and salt is toxic).
Essential Ingredients for Vegan Pizza
Ela Vegan’s pizza dough (also try gluten-free or potato dough)
To avoid palm oil, you can make your own dough. The easiest and quickest method is to combine self-rising flour and dairy-free Greek yoghurt, for a 2-ingredient pizza dough.
Or if you want to cheat, you can use The Northern Dough Co ready-made pizza doughs, which you can find in freezer aisles in grocery stores. Or their ready-made vegan pizza dough balls.
Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not recycle.
Once you’ve baked your dough, you simply smother the top with a tomato sauce (with herbs, optional minced garlic, herbs, salt and black pepper). Then top with sliced veggies of your choice (red onion, mushrooms, red pepper, pitted olives), sprinkle over some vegan mozzarella or vegan sausage) and a few fresh basil or spinach leaves.
Bake for 10-15 minutes, watching it doesn’t burn. Cool and eat!
Variations for Your Vegan Pizza
Vegan Spinach Artichoke Pizza (The First Mess)
- Simple margherita: tomato sauce, Mozzaloumi, fresh basil
- BBQ vegan pizza, with BBQ sauce, red onion, sweetcorn, and vegan chick’n.
- Hawaiian twist: pineapple chunks, vegan ham, spring onion.
- Veggie supreme: mushrooms, peppers, red onion, olives, spinach.
- Mediterranean style, with a hummus base, olives, cherry tomatoes, and oregano.
- White pizza, with garlic oil, spinach, and mushrooms, no tomato sauce.
One Planet Vegan Pizzas (these are amazing!)
If you prefer to buy ready-made pizza, there are a few good brands on sale. You can recycle any plastic packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not recycle.
One Planet Pizza was founded by a father and son, and offers low-carbon footprint vegan pizzas that taste as good as any from the big take-aways. They are generous in size and bake from frozen in 15 to 20 minutes.
This crowdfunded pizza brand was started in a Norwich garage, and are now made in the Netherlands (and sold across Europe). The son has even appeared on TV, judging plant-based cheeses! Find them in independent stores and supermarkets (ASDA, Morrisons and Boots). Flavours (all on a sourdough base) include:
- Margherita (tomato and vegan cheese)
- Tex-Mex (red onion, sweetcorn, peppers and vegan cheese)
- Peppernomi (secret sauce, smoked vegan pepperoni & vegan cheese)
- Hawaiian (tomato sauce, vegan cheese, vegan bacon and pineapple). Italians don’t class pineapple as pizza, but who cares, if it saves animals?
Whole Creations Vegan Pizzas (also good!)
Whole Creations offers a ‘sheesy’ pizza with char-grilled peppers and courgettes and marinated cherry tomatoes drizzled with basil dressing.
It also offers a cauliflower pizza crust (to add your own toppings) and a vegan cheesy garlic bread.
Purezza: Vegan Pizza in London, Brighton, Manchester
Dominoes offers good vegan pizza (but you can’t order mini-pizzas and the boxes’ plastic sauce dishes end up littered everywhere – it’s presently in legal wranglings with Sheringham council in Norfolk, due to it not wanting any more chain stores, in a town with 40 indie food outlets they wish to protect).
Purezza (London, Brighton, Manchester) is an award-winning vegan pizzeria that launched around 10 years ago, founded by an Italian who uses mostly local organic ingredients and no palm oil (outlets are furnished with reclaimed materials, run on green energy and even the loos have recycled bathroom tissue!
The range includes pizzas topped with their own cashew mozzarella (sold wholesale to other restaurants) includes Quattro formaggi (4 vegan cheeses!), Fungi pizza (with truffle oil) and Plant-based salami pizza.
CauliBox makes reusable pizza takeaway boxes that can be washed and returned to companies to save money and reduce waste packaging.
Don’t give leftover pizza crust to garden birds or wildfowl (could choke, and salt is toxic). You also can’t recycle greasy parts of pizza boxes, just throw them away.
