Veggie Pizza Recipe Whole Wheat Veg Pizza Recipe

Veggie Pizza

Pizza is most popular and most loved dish around the world. It is so good because you can easily customise it as per your taste and liking. You can add any topping as you like for kids, adults. You can load it with all your favourite healthy vegetable choices, and it’s meatless so it’s great if you have vegetarians in your family!

About Veggie Pizza

Delicious veggie pizza made with whole wheat base which taste super delicious and is pretty healthy too. I made this pizza in cast iron pan for crispy crust. There are few tips and tricks to get a perfect pizza. First thing you need to know is getting the pizza crust right. You need a fool proof pizza dough for that. If you ask kids their favourite food, their first answer would be Pizza. Pizza are a great hit with kids and they love it anytime of the week. But the pizza which you get from shops are not that much healthy, So make pizza at home because homemade are so much healthier and guilt free. Looking for more meatless recipes, italian penne pasta, chinese style pasta, vegetarian lasagna. You can check my Basic dough, whole wheat pizza dough, ready to cook pizza base or yeast free pizza dough.

Watch Veggie Pizza Video

check this margherita pizza, vegetable cheese pizza, or this mushroom pizza.

Topping Ideas on a Veggie Pizza

roasted red peppers roasted broccoli or cauliflower minced garlic sliced button mushrooms thinly sliced tomatoes sliced red, yellow, orange, or green peppers chopped or sliced red, yellow, or green onions sliced olives sliced zucchini boiled sweet corn fresh basil leaves grilled pineapples

How to Make Veggie Pizza at Home

Pizza Dough

Start by making the dough, mix yeast and sugar in warm water. set aside for 5 mins. Take flour, salt and olive oil in a bowl. Add in the yeast water and make it into a soft dough. Cover and let the dough rise for 1 to 2 hours till it is doubled in size.

Preheating Oven & Pan for Pizza

preheat oven to 220 degree c. Heat only the bottom heating element mode in oven. Take half of the dough and spread it evenly in an oiled surface till it is circle in shape. Make sure the sides are little thicker than the centre. Heat a cast iron pan on stove till it is very hot. Turn off the heat. Add in little olive oil.

Assembling Pizza

Place the spread pizza base in the pan and spread pizza sauce on top generously. Now sprinkle your topping. I used onions, both colour capsicum. Transfer the cast iron pan into the oven, place it in the lowest rack of the oven. Cook this for 10 to 12 mins till the base is crispy.

Baking Pizza

Now remove the pizza from the oven, spread cheese all over it. Arrange some black olives on top. Drizzle little extra olive oil. Pop the pan back into the oven. Now place the oven rack close to the grill on top. Set the oven to grill mode and cook till the cheese is bubbly and golden it will take around 2 mins.

Serving

Remove the pan from oven and sprinkle some oregano seasoning. Carefully remove the pizza from the pan, slice into triangles. Serve.

How to Make Veggie Pizza (Stepwise Pictures)

1)Start by making pizza dough. Take warm water in a bowl. 2)Add in sugar 3)Add in dry yeast and set aside for 5 mins. 4)Take wheat flour in a bowl. 5)Add salt. 6)Add in the yeast mixture. 7)Add olive oil. 8)Knead to a soft dough. 9)Add little oil in the dough. 10)Cover with kitchen towel and let it rise for 1 to 2 hours. 11)Dough is well risen. 12)Take small portion of dough, spread it using your hands in a oiled board. 13)Spread it evenly. 14)Make sure you create a rim on the pizza. 15)Heat cast iron pan. 16)Add in little olive oil. 17)Place the rolled dough. 18)Spread some pizza sauce. 19)Sprinkle onions, capsicum on top. 20)Pop it in to the bottom rack of the oven. Make sure you set only the bottom heating element. 21)Pop the pan into the oven and cook for 10 to 12 mins. 22)Now it is baked. the bottom must have got super crispy. 23)make sure you put the pan back on heat. Sprinkle cheese on top. 24)Arrange olives on top. 25)Place it back into the oven. Now use the top heating element. Grill the pizza for 2 mins or so. 26)Now pizza is cooked. 27)Look how crispy the pizza crust is. 28)Enjoy

Tips & Tricks

Make sure you use cast iron pan to bake your pizza. Keep your cast iron pan hot when transferring the dough into the pan. Cook in the bottom rack of the oven during the first bake to ensure the base of the pizza gets crispy. Whenever you remove the pan from oven, put the cast iron pan on gas flame to ensure that it doesn’t loses its heat. Drizzle olive oil in the cast iron pan before putting the dough, olive oil helps in getting crisp texture.

How to not make pizza crust soggy?

Using cast iron pan is very important in getting the perfect crispy crust.

How to reheat a pizza?

You can reheat pizza in oven.Just pop it into a 180 degree c preheated oven and cook for 5 to 6 mins. You can reheat it in microwave for just 30 seconds. I suggest to line a paper towel in a place and then put the pizza on it and cook.

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