Simple Veggie Pizza with Homemade Tomato Sauce
This Simple Veggie Pizza with Homemade Sauce is your go-to recipe for a fun night in, when you want something homemade but don’t feel like spending an hour in the kitchen. Quick, easy, and fun - you will love making your own pizza. Grab your favorite pizza toppings and let’s get into it!
SIMPLE VEGGIE PIZZA WITH HOMEMADE SAUCE
This Simple Veggie Pizza is a fun addition to your weekly dinner rotation. If you are feeding more than two people, you can make a few pizzas and top them with different ingredients. It’ll be a fun pizza party!
This pizza is made using store-bought dough (Traders Joes costs less than $2) which saves you a lot of time in the kitchen. We will be making our own sauce, which is so easy and cheap to make!
I typically top my pizza with tomatoes, purple onion, basil, and mushrooms - but any toppings you love will work just fine, too!
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO MAKE THIS VEGGIE PIZZA WITH HOMEMADE SAUCE
Store-bought pizza dough: It saves time and mess in the kitchen. I get my dough from Trader Joe’s and it’s extremely affordable! Less than $2.
Homemade marinara ingredients: Tomato sauce, garlic, dried herbs, and seasonings.
Toppings: A variety of veggies to use as toppings. I like to use: tomato, mushroom, onion, and basil.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR VEGGIE PIZZA AND HOMEMADE SAUCE
You will want to let your dough sit on the countertop for 30 minutes before using it. So be sure to pull it out of the refrigerator before you need to start cooking.
Now let’s start by preheating the oven to 425 degrees F.
To prepare the homemade marinara, combine the tomato sauce, garlic, dried herbs and seasonings in a medium bowl. Mix it well and adjust the seasoning if desired. Then set it aside.
On a floured surface, roll out the pizza dough to make a large circle. If you don’t have a roller, you can use a bottle of wine or any other bottle instead. Transfer the dough onto parchment paper. (You will be putting the parchment paper directly onto the cooking rack in the oven. This is to help the crust get crispy).
Spoon the tomato sauce onto the dough. Add as much or as little as you'd like. Any extra can be stored in a jar in the fridge for future use. Now add your toppings. This is the fun part!
Place the pizza with the parchment paper underneath directly onto the baking rack. Definitely DO NOT put the pizza on the rack without the parchment paper or it will fall through. And that would not be fun. Hehe.
Bake the pizza for 20-25 minutes or until the crust is golden and crisp. Top with chili flakes and nutritional yeast if you’d like. Enjoy!
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Simple Veggie Pizza with Homemade Tomato Sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 - 15 ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- store-bought pizza dough (I use Trader Joe's wheat pizza dough)
- fresh basil leaves
- mushrooms, sliced
- tomatoes, sliced
- purple onion, chopped or sliced
- chili flakes, for garnishing
- nutritional yeast, for garnishing
Instructions:
- You will want to let your dough sit on the countertop for 30 minutes before using it. So be sure to pull it out of the refrigerator before you need to start cooking.
- Now let’s start by preheating the oven to 425 degrees F.
- To prepare the homemade marinara, combine the tomato sauce, garlic, dried herbs and seasonings in a medium bowl. Mix it well and adjust the seasoning if desired. Then set it aside.
- On a floured surface, roll out the pizza dough to make a large circle. If you don’t have a roller, you can use a bottle of wine or any other bottle instead. Transfer the dough onto parchment paper. (You will be putting the parchment paper directly onto the cooking rack in the oven. This is to help the crust get crispy).
- Spoon the tomato sauce onto the dough. Add as much or as little as you'd like. Any extra can be stored in a jar in the fridge for future use. Now add your toppings. This is the fun part!
- Place the pizza with the parchment paper underneath directly onto the baking rack. Definitely DO NOT put the pizza on the rack without the parchment paper or it will fall through. And that would not be fun. Hehe.
- Bake the pizza for 20-25 minutes or until the crust is golden and crisp. Top with chili flakes and nutritional yeast if you’d like. Enjoy!
