Vegan White Sauce Pizza
Why save the vegan white sauce for pasta when you can make a vegan white pizza? This delicious pizza puts a twist on the traditional tomato sauce and cheese pizza and uses a creamy cashew-based alfredo-style sauce in its place. It takes only 35 minutes to make, making it the perfect answer to a quick weeknight meal or a fun weekend pizza night.
Servings 2 pizzas
Calories 313kcal
Equipment
- Pizza peel
- Pizza stone
- Pizza oven
Ingredients
Vegan White Pizza Sauce
- ½ cup Cashew nuts
- ½ cup Dairy-free milk
- 1 Tbsp Nutritional yeast
- 1 Tbsp All-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp Nutmeg
- ½ tsp Salt
- ⅛ tsp White pepper
Vegan White Pizza
- 2 Pizza dough homemade classic or gluten-free
- 1 Zucchini
- 5 oz Asparagus
- 5 oz Broccoli
- Semolina flour for dusting
Instructions
Making the vegan white pizza sauce
- Soak cashew nuts in piping hot water for 5-10 minutes. You can do overnight soaking, but if you are in a hurry, boil water in a kettle and soak the cashew nuts for only 5-10 minutes.
- Add soaked cashews, dairy-free milk, all-purpose flour, nutritional yeast, nutmeg, salt, and white pepper to a high-power blender, and blend them until smooth.
Preparing the toppings
- Wash and slice zucchini thinly (with a mandolin if you have). Wash and cut asparagus into 3-inch long sticks. Wash broccoli and cut into florets. Then cut the florets in half since. It will be easier to place them on the pizza if they have one smooth side.
- Pan-fry zucchini and asparagus with your chosen seasonings. We usually only use a dash of salt and pepper, and a bit of garlic powder.
- Blanche broccoli. Boil water in a stockpot and cook broccoli for 5 minutes. Set aside.
Making vegan white pizza
- If you use our homemade pizza dough recipe, make the dough and proof it according to the instructions there. Then continue from here.
- Transfer one ball of dough to a flat surface dusted with semolina or cornmeal. Sprinkle the top with flour if needed (or simply just turn the dough upside-down). Use your fingertips to gently depress the round, stretching and pulling the dough gently into a circle. For a bubbly outer crust, don't depress the outer circumference.
- Preheat the oven to 390 Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).
- Add parchment paper to a baking tray, and transfer the pizza crust with your hand to the tray. Gently arrange the crust back to a circle shape.
- Spread white sauce evenly on the crust. Top it with zucchini, asparagus, and broccoli.
- Bake it for 10-15 minutes or until the outer crust gets some color.
Video
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Notes
Use a pizza stone! - We recommend using a pizza stone in the highest position of the oven since you will have the best pizza if you can manage to bake it on the highest heat possible. The pizza stone is already hot when you place the pizza dough on top resulting in a perfect crispy bottom crust. Read our pizza dough recipe for more details on how to bake a pizza with a pizza stone.