PIZZA

Man, oh man. How good is pizza. But vegan pizza, I hear you say. How is this possible? Well, my friend, nutritional yeast. That’s how. It’s this magnificent thing that tastes like cheese but isn’t.

So the pizza dough is a pretty simple one and makes a lot of dough, but the good thing is you can keep it for a few days in the fridge if needed.

Dough:

4 cups flour

1 1/2 cups warm water

1/4 cup olive oil

salt – pinch

sugar – pinch

sachet of yeast

Put the warm water, yeast and sugar into a small bowl and set aside for a few minutes, then add to the flour with the oil and salt. Kneed until it all comes together into a shiny elastic-y ball and put into an oiled bowl and cover with a kitchen towel in a warm place while you prep the toppings.

Toppings:

I like to keep the toppings fairly simple. For this pizza I just made a simple tomato sauce, caramelised onions, broccoli, sweet potato, oyster mushrooms, basil, chilli flakes, nutritional yeast, salt, tahini.

Tomato sauce:

1 can of crushed tomatoes

3 cloves of garlic minced

Simmer on low until quite a thick consistency is reached.

Caramelised Onions:

2 onions sliced

5 cloves of garlic minced

Fry onions and garlic in water until soft, then add some oil to brown them off when they’re translucent.

1 head of broccoli

Cut into small florets and microwave for a minute

1 sweet potato – chopped and baked until soft

Assembly:

Beat down the dough and divide into four balls, then roll out into whatever shape you can get it into that’s about 1cm thick. Spread tomato sauce in a thin layer (if it’s too thick it might make the base soggy, but who am I to tell you how to live your life.) sprinkle with nutritional yeast, put on some caramelised onion mixture, sweet potato, broccoli, and mushroom, then sprinkle with basil, chilli flakes, salt and oil. If you’re feeling cute, swirl some tahini on and bake at 240C until it looks good (mine took between 13-20 minutes), check under the base to see if it’s cooked underneath and you’re good to go.

It can take a while prepping the ingredients, but if you have minions this is an excellent time to put them to use.