If you’re short on ideas for making vegan pizzas, or just in a pizza rut and looking for new recipes, this is the page for you. We’ve got lots of delicious homemade vegan pizzas with or without vegan cheese, and ideas for how to serve them.
(Personally, we make the potato pizza with garlic and rosemary and the spicy pizza on repeat at our house.)
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There is no need to restrict yourself to the delicious recipes above. Try combining the sections below to come up with your own vegan pizza recipe (and let us know all about it!).
The base
There are tons of excellent pizza dough recipes out there. If you have the time and a pizza oven or pizza stone, I adore Neapolitan pizza dough. Think outside the box for non-traditional bases. Some of the bases I recommend are:
- Store-bought prepared bases or package mixes (purely for convenience).
- This homemade pizza dough recipe for beginners.
- A classic Neapolitan pizza dough.
- Top some vegan naan bread or pita bread and grill it.
- Try a sweet potato crust.
- Get your hands on some vegan puff pastry.
- Toast tortillas or wraps for two minutes on each side in an unoiled frying pan and then add sauce and toppings and grill.
Expert tip: Most homemade and store-bought pizza dough recipes are vegan, just be careful about any sugar you use, as most USA-produced white sugar contains bone char.
The sauce
For sauces you can use any from the recipes above or try:
- Jarred pizza sauce (again, for convenience).
- This no-cook quick homemade pizza sauce.
- Salsa! Yes, whip up a Tex-Mex-style pizza with red or green salsa.
- Vegan pesto.
- Thin some harissa paste with some tomato puree.
- Za’atar and olive oil.
- For a Canarian twist, some mojo rojo, mojo verde or mojo picón.
- 10-minute Roasted red pepper sauce.
- Leftover arrabbiata sauce.
- For a really tasty twist, this delicious peri peri sauce.
- Swap tomato sauce out for this naan dipping sauce for an Indian flavor.
The toppings
Vegan pizza toppings are endless, so I won’t list them all here. Instead, try to think in terms of combinations and ideas. Some suggestions I have are:
- Chopped bell peppers, onions, sweetcorn, jalapeños, and thinly sliced tomatoes for a Tex-Mex pizza.
- Make an antipasto-style pizza with olives, marinated or pickled artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, and pepperoncini.
- Just fresh basil, thinly sliced tomatoes, and soft white vegan cheese.
- Caramelized onions and roasted garlic (yum, but better with a white sauce pizza).
To cheese or not to cheese?
I’m not a huge fan of vegan cheese on pizzas except for soft white cheeses (like vegan goat cheese or vegan mozzarella).
Still feel fry to use a nice premade quality vegan cheese if you wish, or drizzle something creamy over the finished pizza instead. I love to drizzle vegan sour cream over my spicy pizza. Some other good options are vegan ranch sauce or vegan nacho sauce.
🥗What to serve with vegan pizzas
Pizzas are really a complete meal, but for a lighter meal or to make them stretch further, consider adding some side dishes like:
- Salads, particularly green salads.
- A veggie platter to share.
- Vegan dips for pizza crusts like vegan aioli or this bruschetta dip.
- Roasted vegetables.
- Vegan garlic bread.
❓FAQs
Vegans can eat most types of pizzas, just ask whoever is making it to hold the cheese. Be wary of creamy pizza sauces (don’t order a pizza bianca for example) and check to see whether the ingredients are vegan.
“Regular” pizza is not inherently junk food, and neither is vegan pizza. It all depends on what you put on it. A pizza smothered in vegan cheese with a lot of vegan meat substitutes is never going to be as nutritional as a pizza with homemade tomato sauce and vegetables.
Generally, cheese is the only issue. However, with packaged premade frozen pizzas there can be other sneaky ingredients like gelatin, coloring agents, and E numbers that can be problematic. For those readers in the US, you’ll also need to investigate to see if the sugar used in the dough is vegan.
Di-Di | The Foxy Flexitarian
Oh my! This list makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. Since I’ve just started harvesting beets from the food garden I think I’ll start with the beet options. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this list together.
The Fiery Vegetarian
Thanks Di-Di! I’m hoping to keep growing it…who doesn’t like pizza? And I totally agree, the beet pizza looks beautiful.
Rosa
Wow a truly EPIC round up of pizzas! Thanks so much for including my recipes. So many wonderful new pizza options to try!