Baking – His Bite, Her Bite

Who doesn’t love pizza? Even if you don’t love one pizza, there are so many others that can cater to your needs. It is a magical food, the ultimate delivery method of deliciousness that can be adapted to any situation and any craving.

This is arguably our favorite pizza. When it comes down to it, we make this pizza far more frequently than any other. It has the richness of a pizza with the cheese and barbecue sauce, the hardiness with the roasted cauliflower, and the protein with the chickpeas. Cheap to shop for, easy to prepare, and exceedingly delicious to eat. Plus the leftovers are just as good!

BBQ Cauliflower Pizza

Makes: dinner for four, or dinner and leftovers for two

Omnivore Index: Everyone will know this is a vegan pizza, and everyone who tries it will not mind at all.

Ingredients

–Quick Rise Pizza Dough (recipe)
-1 head of cauliflower
-Vegetable oil or equivalent
-Spices of choice (salt and pepper, steak seasoning, TraderJoe 21 Seasoning Salute – for a few examples)
-1 can of chickpeas, drained (you can save the aquafaba for other recipes)
-Babecue sauce of choice (we use Sweet Baby Ray’s)
-Cheddar or pepperjack nondairy cheese

Optional ingredient suggestions: this goes great with avocado slices!

Instructions

-Prepare the Quick Rise Pizza Dough and cover bowl to let rise in bowl (follow that recipe and then use these toppings to finish pizza)

-Clean and chop cauliflower into florets
-Put cauliflower into large bowl, drizzle with oil, and sprinkle in spices of your choice, then toss gently to distribute oil and seasoning
-Bake cauliflower on baking sheet at 425°F for 20 minutes
-Roll out dough after at least 20 minutes rising
-Remove cauliflower from oven
-Top dough with cauliflower first, then chickpeas
-Drizzle barbecue sauce across the pizza and top with cheese
-Bake in the oven at 525°F for 12 minutes, letting stand 5 minutes to cool before cutting and eating

-Optionally, top with green onions and avocado slices before serving

Closing Argument

This pizza has the satisfying hardiness of a bbq chicken pizza without any need for animal products. Topped with avocado for healthy fat, it really delivers maximum yum.

Everyone could use a good pizza dough recipe. It is part of many other recipes as it is the base of many of them. This is that recipe.

This pizza dough recipe is inspired by a frustration that every pizza crust we tried to buy had honey in it or worse. And once we started making this, it was no going back. This recipe is incredibly simple and easy, quick, and has reliably proven to be an excellent texture time and again.

Plus, the ingredients on hand are really basic pantry items, making this extremely cheap to make. This is a way better value and taste than any pizza crust we may have bought. We’ve also used this recipe to make stromboli and it turned out AMAZING.

Quick Rise Pizza Dough

Makes: 1 large pizza or stromboli

Omnivore Index: Nobody knows that good pizza dough is vegan already, and they won’t know this is either

Ingredients

-2 cups flour
-1 tbsp yeast
-1 tbsp sugar
-1/4 tsp salt
-2/3 cups warm water

Optional ingredient suggestions: garlic powder, onion powder, steak seasoning, Trader Joe 21 Seasoning Salute

Instructions

-Add flour, sugar, salt, and yeast to a bowl large enough for mixing (or use a mixer if you have it)
-Add any other spices if applicable
-Slowly add warm water and stir to combine
-When ingredients start to form, use your hands to knead and form dough ball
-Cover bowl with towel or plastic wrap and let sit for a minimum of 20 minutes
-Roll out into pizza dough and cover with desired toppings
-Bake on pizza pan at 525°F for 12 minutes
-Let cool 5 minutes before cutting and serving