Homemade Vegan Pizza

The easiest homemade vegan pizza you’ll ever make that tastes just as good as your favorite pizza restaurant! Throw it on the grill for grilled pizza or bake it in the oven, this quick & healthy vegan pizza dough and toppings is out of this world good!

Raise your hand in the air if you love pizza! Now raise it again if you love real, good, HOMEMADE pizza!?

My homemade pizza lovers, your prayers have been answered! What we have here is one of the easiest homemade vegan pizza recipes, and it’s quite simple in ingredients, but out of this world in taste.

And guess what?! This is a pizza dough without sugar! I know, I’m pretty good sometimes 😉

Jk, jk my ego isn’t that inflated, but I do love chatting so let’s dive into what goes into this simple vegan pizza, and then we’ll get to how to making the vegan pizza dough!

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Ingredients for a homemade vegan pizza

Organic sprouted flour: so because this is a healthy homemade pizza, I decided, why not try out sprouted flour?! The verdict: it is amazing! And you get some nice added benefits from using sprouted flour 🙂 Using sprouted flour is really not all that different from using regular flour, and we’re actually cutting it a bit with regular flour so it’s a nice transition!

Organic flour: for this recipe, we’re doing two parts organic sprouted flour, one part organic flour. This will help if you’re a first time user of sprouted flour, making the dough very easy to work with!

Yeast: I decided to go with rapid rise yeast, which is a bit different from instant yeast, only slightly, but enough to notice a difference! You’ll mix the yeast directly into the dry ingredients, and it absorbs liquid a lot faster, making your simple vegan pizza dough thus rise faster! We’ll go over it all in a second!

Water: we’ll use warm water here (about 110F) to mix into the dough.

Sea salt: for flavor of course!

Tomato Sauce: you can use your favorite brand of pizza or marinara sauce here, or make your own! I personally love making my own, but since this is an easy recipe, you can just get a good store bought one 🙂 I like to use one without added sugar just because you can actually taste how much sweeter the sauce is when there’s sugar in it, but it’s up to your preference. I think you’d be amazed by how good tomato sauce is just on its own!

Vegan Cheese: well, since this is a vegan pizza recipe, we’re using vegan cheese! But guess what!? There are a lot of amazing vegan cheese brands out there nowadays. My personal favorite is Miyoko’s- it’s the only vegan mozzarella cheese that I’ve found that is organic, stretches and bubbles, and tastes like regular mozzarella cheese!

Now, if you’ve noticed, I did not list sugar in here…because there is no need for sugar in this vegan pizza dough recipe! I’ll show ya why later on 😉

How to make a grilled vegan pizza

Making a homemade vegan pizza is actually quite simple! It’ll give you a bit of an arm workout, but totally worth it because this vegan pizza dough comes out incredibly.

First I’ll walk your through making the dough, and then we’ll go over how to make a grilled vegan pizza with toppings! For those who also don’t want to grill the dough, we’ll go over how to make a healthy homemade pizza crust indoors!

Making vegan pizza dough

First, start by whisking together the flour, yeast, and sea salt. Add in about 1 cup of the warm water and mix the flour together. Then add in the 1/3 cup of water and mix thoroughly.

Next, lightly flour a clean surface and begin to knead the vegan pizza dough for 8-10 minutes. Because we’re using sprouted flour, it “kneads” (ha- get it? Needs…kneads…anyways!!) a little more kneading than regular homemade pizza dough.

Once you’re done kneading, grease a clean glass bowl with olive oil and place the dough inside. Cover it tightly with plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm room (or outside like I did in the summer, but in the shade) to rest for 30-45 minutes. Because we’re using rapid rise yeast and sprouted flour together, you’ll only need about 40 minutes on average for the dough to double in size. If you use regular yeast, you will need closer to an hour to an hour and a half.

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Remove the plastic wrap from the glass, and lightly punch down the dough to release any air bubbles. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and using a rolling pin, roll the dough out on a clean surface (not the parchment paper) into the shape of a circle about 10-12″ in diameter. Place the dough onto the parchment paper and now we’re ready for the next step!

To grill or to bake the dough?

Honestly, either works, but I personally prefer making grilled vegan pizza!

If you choose to grill, simply start your grill how you normally would and let it heat to about 500F. Arrange all of your toppings ready to go on the side of the grill (this part just takes being prepared!). Lightly brush your vegan pizza dough with a little olive oil on both sides and slide the dough onto the grill.

Flip the dough after about 2-3 minutes and grill on the other side. Then flip the dough back over and onto the parchment paper, and top with sauce and cheese (saving the basil for when you serve). Slide the simple vegan pizza back onto the grill and cover to let cook for about 2-3 minutes. If your cheese didn’t melt (it’s happened to me once or twice, and it’s because too much time passed between lifting the cover of the grill!), you can place your pizza into an oven at 475F for about 5 minutes to melt the cheese! Then just serve and enjoy 🙂

Now, if you’re only going with the oven method, simply place your shaped dough onto the parchment paper lined baking sheet and into the oven at 475F. Bake for about 10 minutes, and then remove. Spread your toppings onto the pizza and bake for another 5 minutes or until the cheese starts to bubble.

Remove from the oven and enjoy!

Do you need sugar to activate yeast?

There are multiple reasons why this simple vegan pizza is considered a healthy homemade pizza, and one of those happens to be because there is no added sugar in the dough!

So do you need sugar to activate yeast?

The short answer: no!

The slightly longer answer: honestly, the gluten with the flour is enough to activate the yeast and make the dough rise. At that point, adding sugar is only needed for an additional flavor booster.

It’s quite easy to make a pizza dough without sugar, and I think you’d be surprised at how quickly it rises too with the rapid rise yeast!

But let me make something abundantly clear. Sugar isn’t inherently bad. It’s simply a molecule of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, three basic elements needed for life. Of course, some people have to stay away from certain nutrients, like carbohydrates in the form of sugar, but not everyone. What makes anything considered “bad” is our own judgement. Now, in America, we sometimes have too much of one thing, and one of those “things” happens to be eating a lot of sugar. Eating a lot of anything isn’t good for you, even being too healthy!

Life is about balance. We can have our pizza and eat it too! Or does the saying only have to do with cake? 😉

I hope you love this homemade healthy pizza as much as I do, and I hope you enjoyed the thoughts at the end!

I don’t do it in every recipe, but sometimes, I just gotta share to break the fear! I want you to be living your best life, wherever you are, whoever you are, and wherever you’re going 🙂 That’s my goal on here.

Let me know how making this homemade vegan pizza goes for you in the comments down below, and I’d love to see your recreations on Instagram and Pinterest! Sending you a big hug!

Happy grilling!

If you like this recipe, you may like these!

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