Roasted Garlic Chili Vegan Pizza Crust or Breadsticks
Alisa Fleming ~ Finding dairy-free or vegan pizza at a restaurant can be tricky, and who wants to pay full-price for a pizza without cheese when you could simply make one at home? Yes, pizza is surprisingly easy to make, even from scratch. Recipes for vegan pizza crust may seem daunting, but they are really quite easy and require very little hands-on time (most of the time involved is in rising, which requires no effort on your part!).
But why stop at a basic crust? Kick things up a notch with this flavorful crust, or breadsticks, recipe from Chef Jason Wyrick, founder of Vegan Culinary Experience. Jason recommends, “When this is in breadstick form, it is a must to have a great dripping sauce. I am addicted to arrabiata sauce with this recipe.”
Recipe and photo from the Vegan Culinary Experience.
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 package active yeast (about 2 teaspoons)
- 1 cup warm water
- 3 cups all-purpose or plain flour
- 1 large teaspoon crushed chili flakes (or more)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 to 8 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup good quality olive oil
Instructions
- Roast your garlic. The best way to do this is keep your garlic in the paper, and heat a cast iron skillet over medium heat. Place your garlic inside and allow this to sit for about 10 minutes on each side, until the garlic paper is slightly blackened and you can smell the aroma. Then turn to a new side until all the sides are done. Allow to cool and remove from the paper. Mince. Set to the side.
- Place the yeast, water, and sugar in a glass bowl. Lightly mix with your fingers and allow to rest about 5‐10 minutes. The yeast mixture should start to bubble. If it doesn’t, you might have old yeast, so you might want to try again. Once you know your yeast is viable, set to the side. In a large bowl, combine the flour, salt, chili flakes, and salt. Add the olive oil and slowly add the yeast water, mixing as you go.
- If you have a large stand mixer with a dough paddle, this is the time to use it. If not, you are going to get a work out. You want the dough to stick to itself and not you. Add a few drops more of water, or a little bit more flour until you have this consistency. Once you have it, knead the dough for at least ten minutes.
- Cover and allow the dough to rest in a warm place for about an hour. It will get big. Very big. Punch it down after the hour and knead again for another 5‐10 minutes. Then, the magic happens.
- Roll out into your desired shape. For breadsticks, I like an oblong shape that you can cut into breadsticks. For the pizza crust, roll out into a circle, place on your pizza stone or baking sheet, and trim or stretch to match the pan. Then, cover and wait another hour.
- Finally, preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Remove your cover from your crust, and bake it for about 5 minutes. Cover with your topping and bake about 10 more minutes, or according to directions.
Notes
This recipe is Vegan, Vegetarian, Dairy free, Egg free, Peanut free, Nut free, and Soy free.
http://www.godairyfree.org/recipes/roasted-garlic-vegan-pizza-crust
Tagged egg-free, low fat, nut-free, peanut-free, soy-free, vegan, vegetarian
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Mary BethJanuary 7, 2013 at 9:19 am
I would live to make this but were not eating olive oil, any suggestions for substitutes?
Thank you
Alisa FlemingJanuary 7, 2013 at 9:22 amAuthor
You can use your oil of choice – all oils have the same level of fat and perform the same in recipes. The flavor will just be slightly different and will depend on the oil.