Everyone loves pizza, and people who deliberately refuse meat and animal products also love it. However, sometimes it is not easy to get a tasty pizza, because in most cases even vegetable pizzas are cooked with cheese. However, a vegetarian pizza exists, and you can make it at home.
Cooking Features
Cooking a vegetarian pizza is a bit different from pastry recipes.
- The dough for a vegetarian pizza is not suitable for everyone, because it is important that it does not have butter and milk, since many vegetarians have excluded these foods from their diet. Other supporters of vegetarian food do not eat eggs, so the dough should be prepared without them, too. Especially since there are vegetarians (more often they are called vegans), eating only products of plant origin. The probability of finding a ready-made dough for sale that meets all these conditions is negligible. Therefore, the basis for pizza will have to do on their own, using special recipes.
- Cheese is an important component of classic pizza, but vegetarians do not eat cheeses that use rennet ingredients in their preparation. You have to choose from a small amount of cheeses, which are made without the use of these ingredients. These are special cheeses for vegetarians, which are practically impossible to buy in our country, homemade cheeses, Adygei cheese and tofu. Even vegans eat tofu. If it is impossible to get a suitable component, the pizza can be covered with a fast mayonnaise sauce and sprinkled with amaranth flour - it will also turn out delicious.
- Given that vegetarian pizza is cooked without meat and fish, it is not bad to include protein-rich foods in its filling. This is tofu, mushrooms, beans.
- The sauce in a vegetarian pizza plays an even bigger role than in a classic recipe pizza. Therefore, its preparation should be taken seriously. Just anoint the cake with tomato sauce in this case will not be enough.
Choosing a pizza recipe, you should pay attention to all these moments, then it will turn out delicious and will certainly please the vegetarian.
Dough Recipe for Vegetarian Pizza
Composition:
- wheat flour - 0, 4 kg;
- citric acid - 5 g;
- soda - 5 g;
- salt - a pinch;
- soy milk - 150 ml (can be replaced with water);
- vegetable oil - 50 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Mix citric acid and soda. This mixture can be replaced with two teaspoons of baking powder for the dough.
- Sift flour and mix with baking powder and salt.
- Pour in the oil, stir as much as possible.
- Topping up with soy milk or water, knead the dough.
- Put the dough in a cool place for an hour by rolling it into a ball.
- Thinly roll out the dough, put on a hot baking sheet and send for 5 minutes in a hot oven.
Next, it remains only to cover the cake with sauce, put the filling on it and bake until done.
Vegetarian pizza with broccoli
Composition:
- basis for vegetarian pizza - 1 pc .;
- tomatoes - 100 g;
- tomato paste - 25 g;
- paprika - 5 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- broccoli (fresh or frozen) - 0, 2 kg;
- green peas (fresh, frozen or canned) - 100 g;
- canned corn - 100 g;
- lean mayonnaise - 100 g;
- amaranth flour - 20 g.
Method of preparation:
- Blow a tomato in boiling water, remove the skin from it.
- Grind the pulp of a tomato with paprika and tomato paste in a blender. Mix tomato sauce with garlic passed through the press.
- Sauce the pizza base.
- Boil broccoli in salted water for 10 minutes, then immediately drop it into cold water for a couple of minutes, fold it in a colander to drain the water.
- Boil the green peas in the same way (there is no need to boil the peas).
- Spread broccoli on the pizza, sprinkle it with corn and green peas.
- Cover with mayonnaise, sprinkle amaranth flour (you can do without them).
- Bake the pizza for 10 minutes in an oven preheated to 250 degrees.
This pizza looks so fresh and appetizing that even those who do not share the principles of vegetarianism will not refuse it.
Vegetarian pizza with mushrooms
Composition:
- crust for vegetarian pizza - 1 pc .;
- champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- bulb onion - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- potatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- tomato paste - 10 g;
- tomato - 100 g;
- soy milk (or water) - 50 ml;
- tofu - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the potatoes and mash it with a fork, mixed with tomato paste, a spoon of butter and soy milk.
- Cover this mashed pizza crust.
- Cut the mushrooms into thin slices, onions - half rings.
- Fry the onions with champignons in the remaining oil, put them on the potato sauce.
- Top with thin slices of tomato.
- Spread tofu between the tomato cups.
- Put in the oven for 15 minutes. Bake at maximum temperature.
This vegetarian pizza will appeal to those who love mushrooms. It turns out quite nourishing and may well replace lunch.
Vegetarian pizza with zucchini
Composition:
- crust for vegetarian pizza - 1 pc .;
- cherry tomatoes - 50 g;
- pitted olives - 50 g;
- zucchini - 0, 2-0, 25 kg;
- ketchup - 50 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- soy sauce - 50 ml;
- Provencal herbs - 10 g;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetarian cheese - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the young zucchini with thin washers, pickle in a mixture of oil, soy sauce and Provencal herbs. They should marinate from 30 to 90 minutes.
- Cover the base for the pizza with ketchup. Spread the zucchini.
- Cut the tomatoes and olives in half, decorate the pizza with them.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese or spread tofu.
- Send the pizza to the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
Such a pizza looks festive, it is not a shame to offer it to guests.
Vegetarian pizza is a decent replacement for the classic version of this dish. Cooking is not difficult at all, so vegetarians will not have to give up this masterpiece of Italian cuisine.
