Vegan Sweet Mini Peppers Spinach Pizza

Made from scratch!

PrepTime: 30 mins

Cook Time: 20 – 25 mins

Total Time: 50 mins – 1 hour

Ingredients : Sweet-mini pepper spinach topping:

• ½ medium red onion, diced
• 4 cloves garlic, diced
• 4 sweet mini peppers (yellow and red), sliced/chopped
• 4 oz baby spinach
• a handful of chopped basil
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 2  cubes of cilantro seasoning
• sweet red pepper flakes

Pizza Crust:

• ¾ cup warm water
• 1 packet of red star active dry yeast
• ¼ tsp sugar
• 2 cloves garlic, diced
• 1 tbs herb de Provence
• 1 tbs thyme
• 1 1/2 cups flour (unbleached white)
• ¼ cup semolina flour
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp salt

Other toppings:

• Lisanatti Almond Style Vegan Mozzarella Cheese (Wholefoods)
• 5 tablespoon of tomato Pizza sauce
• 1/2 can of black olives
• pepper flakes
• choice of 1 slice of Sweet mini pepper as an additional topping

INSTRUCTIONS

Sweet mini pepper spinach topping:

1. Heat 2 tbs of oil in a fry pan over medium heat. Add red onions and garlic and cook for 2mins. Add sliced/chopped sweet peppers and cook for 3 minutes. Add in spinach, basil, thyme, cilantro seasoning, and sweet red pepper flakes, mix in. Cook additional 3-5minutes.

Pizza Dough Mix:

1. Mix warm water, yeast and sugar and let sit for a 3minutes. Add 1 1/2 cups flour, salt, semolina flour and oil, mix together with a spoon. Add diced 2 cloves of diced garlic, thyme, and herb de Provence. Mix the dough and knead together for about 30 seconds – 1 minutes. Let the dough sit in a warm place for 25 minutes.
2. Preheat the oven to 435 degrees F.
3. Rub a tablespoon of oil on the dough, then use some flour to spread the dough in a circular form (in a pizza shape) on a flat pan. Keep the bottom thick to support  heavy toppings.

Add on:

1. Layer with pizza sauce, vegan mozzarella cheese, optional sweet mini pepper, sweet mini pepper spinach mixture, and olives.
2. Bake at 435 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes.

Shout out to Vegan Richa for her vegan deep dish recipe here where I adapted my recipe for this yummy pizza!