Easy Vegetarian Pizza Recipes

This is our ultimate oven-baked veggie lover’s pizza. Red sauce, mozzarella, red onions, olives, bell peppers, artichokes, and a golden crust. It’s all here!

Sally is the author of four cookbooks and is a regular correspondent for the Boston Globe Wednesday Food Section. She also is a food photographer.

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I thought that a vegetarian pizza would be a hard sell in our family where pizza is synonymous with pepperoni. But no!

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Everyone dug in with relish, yumming at the delicious flavors—salty Kalamata olives, juicy artichokes, oozy mozzarella, sharp red onions, and sweet yellow bell peppers scattered over a thin blanket of tomato sauce.

This recipe is a blueprint for a classic vegetarian pizza, like the one you get from your local casual pizza joint. This colorful and utterly irresistible pizza should get you started on your own path to vegetable heaven.

Make it for a meatless Monday dinner or whip it up for movie night on Friday. Pizza has to be one of the most delicious ways to eat your vegetables!

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Deliciously good and easy-to-make homemade dough is the way to go, but store-bought dough works too. Buy two 1-pound balls of pizza dough or make any one of the following homemade pizza dough recipes:

Let homemade dough rise overnight or up to 18 hours at room temperature. It will develop a lot of flavor and produce the prized large air bubbles in the dough. If you refrigerate the dough for longer storage, be sure to take it out of the fridge about an hour ahead of time to bring it to room temperature.

Toppings: Don’t overload the pizza with toppings! Less is more when making pizza so the crust gets crisp without becoming soggy. The crust will be weighed down if you add too many topping or too much sauce.

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Oven temperature: Bake the pizza in a very hot oven. I borrowed Jim Lahey’s method of getting my oven as hot as possible first and then turning on the broiler to bake the pizza.

Fun fact! Jim Lahey, owner of Sullivan St. Bakery and author of multiple cookbooks on bread, is one of the first proponents of the no-knead bread method, and the no-knead pizza dough I recommend for this recipe is adapted from his method.

Oven rack: Set the oven rack eight to nine inches below the broiler element. That is enough distance to prevent the top of the dough from burning. Be sure to peek often since oven heat distribution varies. Yours will be different than mine.

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Baking time: The cook times are different for apizza stoneand a sheet pan. The pizza will take longer to cook on a sheet pan than on a hot pizza stone.

Assemble the pizza: Top and bake one pizza at a time. While the first pizza bakes, start working on the second pizza.

Now that you have a base, what’s next? Honestly, the sky’s the limit. If you can imagine it, you can make it. I’m not saying you can throw just anything on top (hold the sweet potatoes and marshmallows), but follow the maxim of what grows together, goes together, and pair those vegetables with some fresh herbs.

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In summer you might want to use thin ribbons of zucchini or fresh tomatoes with basil. Roasted squash and root vegetables in the fall with sage or rosemary sounds delicious. Top it with asparagus in the spring with parsley or tarragon.

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Here is a list of ideas for vegetarian pizza toppings. Most vegetables can be topped raw, but some need to be cooked first to bring out their sweetness and to keep them from drying out. It’s not an exhaustive list, but

My favorite way to reheat pizza is in a 400ºF oven. Bake it for five to 10 minutes, or until hot. You could microwave it, but I think the crust becomes too soggy.Hereare some helpful tips for reheating pizza.

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The homemade pizza dough recommended in this recipe can be made up to 48 hours in advance. If you’re making it the day of, you’ll need to budget about two hours of time to make it and let it rise.

*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2, 000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

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If you were to ask me, “What’s the best vegetarian pizza in Chicago?”, I’d have to ask a few followup questions before I answered. Like, what kind of veggie pizza are we talking here? Because for me, when it comes to pizza, there isn’t one

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. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a Neapolitan-style pie with an airy crust and minimal toppings. And sometimes I want something inventive, like the vegan spinach & ranch pizza at Middlebrow in Logan Square. And then there are those nights when nothing but a classic delivery pizza will do.

For said delivery pizza, but we’ve just gotten takeout the night before or the delivery time sounded waayyy too long or etc., etc., etc. I’m sure you’ve been there: you want to order in, but for whatever reason that night, it just doesn’t make sense.

This vegetarian pizza recipe is a lifesaver in those situations. Piled with bell peppers, briny artichokes, red onion, fresh basil, and 3 types of cheese, it tastes like delivery pizza (maybe even better?), and it’s quick and easy to make at home. It’s one of our weeknight staples. I hope you love it too!

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Stretch the dough, spread on the sauce, and add the cheese and vegetables. Bake at 500°F until the pizza crust is golden brown and the cheese and toppings are browning too, 10 to 13 minutes.

I love this vegetable pizza recipe as written, but if you want to change it up, by all means, do! So many veggie pizza toppings would be great here.

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How do you make veggie pizza? Think of the crispy pizza crust, the creamy mozzarella cheese, the fresh, healthy veggies on top. It’s easy to make, and playing around with a variety of vegetables offers plenty of delicious combinations.

I bake pizza for my family using any kind of vegetables, and I usually ditch processed toppings (apart from the creamy, deliciously melted mozzarella!).

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Fresh tomatoes, onions, arugula, kale, eggplants, bell peppers, spinach, zucchini, mushrooms and more. They all make flavorsome vegetarian pizza toppings. Some vegetables need to be cooked or roasted to bring out their flavors, while others vegetables are best when they’re raw. You can also use jarred artichokes, delicious sun-dried tomatoes or peppers for convenience.

This easy pizza sauce, so easy to make from scratch! It’s the classic Italian no-cook pizza sauce: light, full of fresh bright flavor, and ready in minutes. It doesn’t contain preservatives, it tastes WAY better than any store-bought pizza sauce, and it’s perfect with veggies.

For the veggie pizza dough recipe, I use my favorite no-knead dough (see the video tutorial below). It’s easy and it comes together in a bowl with zero effort.

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However, you can use whatever dough you like. A store-bough pizza dough, your favorite pizza dough recipe or even crescent roll dough if that makes your life easier.