Easy Homemade Veggie Pizza

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Easy Homemade Veggie Pizza

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 5

Total Time 20

Servings

Ingredients

Cashew Cheese

1/2 cup raw cashews
1.5 cup frozen cauliflower florets
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1/2 lemon —juiced
1/2 tsp. Himalayan cooking salt
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tbsp. dried parsley
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
1/2 tsp. dried basil
1 cup baby greens (spinach or kale)

Pizza

1 large tortilla (whole grain or gluten-free - Food For Life tortillas are a good choice)
1/4 cup pasta sauce (I use Barilla Tuscan Herb)
1/3 cup cashew cheese
1/4 cup red onion chopped
1/3 cup bell pepper chopped, yellow or orange
1/2 cup frozen broccoli florets thawed and chopped
2 Tbsp. black olives sliced

Instructions

Cashew Cheese

Steam frozen cauliflower and cashews for 10-15 minutes in a steaming basket or until cauliflower is tender.
Once the cashews and cauliflower are steamed, add them to a food processor with the nutritional yeast, water, lemon juice, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, oregano, and basil and pulse until the mixture resembles the texture of ricotta cheese. Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time if necessary.
Add baby greens and pulse until chopped and mixed.
Scrape the mixture into a medium bowl and set aside. (You may have leftovers.)

Pizza

Preheat toaster oven to 450 degrees. (Use the pizza setting, if it’s an option.)
Place the tortilla on a pizza screen.
Spread pasta sauce evenly over the tortilla – to within ¼ inch of the edge – with a spoon.
Spread cashew cheese evenly over pasta sauce.
Sprinkle chopped onion, peppers, broccoli and black olives evenly over cashew cheese.
Place pizza screen on the center rack of the toaster oven and bake for approximately 5 minutes or until the edges of the crust appear brown and crispy.
Slide cooked pizza from pizza screen onto a cutting board. Slice with a pizza cutter and enjoy!

Notes

To quickly thaw the frozen broccoli florets, microwave for 1-2 minutes.

Cooking time and temperature are based on my Breville Toaster Oven, time and temperature may need to be adjusted if you are using a different toaster oven or a conventional oven.

Note: Nutrition information is a rough estimate for special dietary needs. I subscribe to the theories presented in the book Whole and believe we should focus on eating a variety of whole foods instead of counting calories or keeping track of individual nutrients.

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