12 Vegan Pizza Ideas
From tips and tricks to a dozen vegan pizza recipes, this Vegan Pizza Guide is everything you need to make the best plant-based pizzas you’ll ever eat. From traditional classics made vegan like a Pepperoni Stuffed Crust to extravagant ideas like Vegan Chicken Parmesan Pizza, these vegan pizza ideas are delicious enough for everyone to enjoy. And I mean everyone.
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People often ask if, as vegans, we miss eating pizza. And I just can’t help but laugh out loud because we eat a lot of pizza here. A lot of pizza.
I’m always rolling out a batch of fluffy, homemade pizza dough and coming up with new vegan pizza ideas to try.
From a decadent Plant Based Cheeseburger Pizza to a more traditional but no less tantalizing Vegan Stuffed Crust Pepperoni Pizza, you’ll find no shortage of tasty vegan pizza options and ideas in this list!
We’ve also included our best ideas and suggestions for topping your pizzas and some tips and tricks to help your plant-based pizza making journey even easier.
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Why You’ll Love These Vegan Pizza Recipes
- All of these vegan pizza recipes are our personal recipes. If we can make great pizza, you can too!
- Each and every one of these pizzas has been tested in our small Philly kitchen.
- All of them are fit to be served to omnivores…with zero complaints. (Yes, we tested it!)
- They can be made in a pizza oven or traditional oven.
Tips & Tricks to Make the Best Pizzas
- Make sure your pizza dough is floured properly for rolling out
- Don’t overload the pizza dough with toppings that will make it too heavy
- Lots of corn meal on the pizza peel will help it slide into the oven easily
- If using a pizza oven, don’t let the pizza sit on the peel too long or the bottom may stick. This makes it more difficult to transfer
Vegan Pizza FAQs
What are good toppings for vegan pizza?
- Vegan Sausage – We like dicing up the Gardein sausage patties or slicing up their Ultimate Italian Sausage links. You can also use our walnut sausage or Italian seitan sausages recipe!
- Vegan Pepperoni – Field Roast makes an amazing vegan pepperoni perfect for pizzas. I love our Italian seitan sausage recipe, sliced thinly, as a pepperoni stand-in as well.
- All the veggies! – Mushrooms, green peppers, red onion, roasted red pepper, zucchini, squash, loads of minced garlic, etc. Toss them in some balsamic vinegar and a little olive oil first for a touch of flavor!
- Vegan Ham – We love to use leftover seitan ham after the holidays for pizza! (Pineapple or no)
- Olives – Kalamata olives and black olives are my favorites for pizza, especially paired with our vegan feta or vegan goat cheese!
- Peppers – Not just bell peppers, try some other sweet or hot varieties! Shishito peppers and poblanos are great on pizza. Jalapenos are the perfect addition to a spicy Vegan Buffalo Chicken Pizza.
Can vegans eat regular pizza dough?
“Regular” pizza dough’ is a misleading term. Most traditional pizza dough recipes are vegan. But many places, especially artisanal-style pizza shops, like to add specialized ingredients to give their dough a “personal touch”.
I’ve worked in places that added eggs to the dough for binding, or used honey as the activator for the yeast. I’ve also worked in places that added whey powder to the flour to increase its protein content. I even worked in a spot in the early 2000s that added chicken fat to some of their specialty doughs.
So, the name of the game here is always read the ingredients. This is just one of those products where you’ll always have to ask the restaurant or look at the ingredients if you’re buying a store-bought pizza crust.
If you’re looking for a perfectly fluffy, vegan friendly pizza dough to make at home, try our easy Homemade Pizza Dough. The recipe makes two pizza doughs, so you can even freeze on for later.
What is the best vegan cheese for pizza?
From Follow Your Heart to Vevan, Daiya to Parmela and more, there’s a plethora of plant-based pizza cheese available at many standard grocery stores these days. But not all cheeses are created equal.
Some vegan cheeses, like Violife in particular, need a very high heat to achieve a good meltability. Daiya, Vevan, and others melt well at a slightly lower temperature in both the pizza oven or traditional oven.
This is important to remember when choosing a vegan cheese for your pizza. If you’re using a traditional oven to make pizza, you’ll want to err on the side of a low-heat easily meltable cheese like Daiya, Vevan, or Follow Your Heart. However, our Pizzadesso PIzza Oven gets up to 800F which melts the higher-heat cheeses like Violife perfectly, so we don’t have to be as selective.
If you’re looking for a homemade vegan pizza cheese, our go-to is our Homemade Vegan Liquid Mozzarella Sauce that is perfectly creamy and delicious and melts amazingly.
The Salton Pizzadesso
The Salton Pizzadesso Ultra High Heat Pizza Oven is a game-changing countertop pizza oven/air fryer combo! We just absolutely love it. We make all our pizzas in it now and use its large variety of functions for lots of other fun recipes as well.
It has 15 versatile functions – including broiling, roasting, dehydrating, and defrosting – and 6 pizza-specific functions from deep-dish or wood-fired pizza to a NY style pizza. It also has a low-heat dough proofing function that will help get you enjoying your homemade pizza so much faster.
Speaking of fast, the Pizzadesso countertop pizza oven from Salton heats up to 800°F on the Wood Fire setting and will cook your plant based pizza to perfection in just 3-4 minutes! Needless to say that this is our favorite pizza setting.
You’ll notice most of the vegan pizza recipes we’re sharing below will also contain specific Pizzadesso instructions, so be sure to look for that if you have one.
And if you’re in the market for an indoor pizza oven, we can’t recommend this one enough! Just know you’ll have lots of recipes to make here if you decide it’s right for you!
Vegan Pizza Recipes
We start all our pizza recipes with this Fluffy Homemade Pizza Dough. You can use a vegan-friendly frozen pizza dough as well. We often find a couple brand varieties in our local store’s freezer section. Just be sure to read the package ingredients first.
Use your favorite store bought vegan shredded cheese or make your own Vegan Liquid Mozzarella Cheese Sauce in just a few minutes.
Roasted Vegetable Pizza
Roasted Vegetable Pizza – A roasted vegetable pizza that strikes a good balance between eating your veggies and indulging in comfort food! Fresh garden vegetables and herbs are seasoned with a simple flavor trick that will even get the kids eating their veg!
Vegan White Pizza
White Pizza with Marinated Veggies – This easy vegan white pizza recipe is impossible to resist! Sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, olives, artichokes, and mushrooms are marinated and nestled between two layers of thick and creamy dairy-free white sauce that’s made without any vegan cheese, milk, or cashews!
Vegan Stuffed Crust Pizza
Vegan Stuffed Crust Pepperoni Pizza – The Pizza Hut classic gets a vegan makeover with this amazing plant based pepperoni pizza. With a soft crust stuffed with melty dairy-free mozzarella and shredded vegan pepperoni, you won’t know which end to start at first!
Vegan BBQ Pizza
Vegan BBQ Chicken Pizza – The recipe that changed my mind about pineapple on pizza. Soy curls, red onions, and yes, pineapple combine for an amazing pizza everyone will love. And you might even change a few minds about the pineapple.
Vegan Buffalo Pizza
Vegan Buffalo Chicken Pizza – Why choose between Buffalo wings or pizza when you can have both? This vegan Buffalo Chicken Pizza is the perfect balance between creamy, spicy, and zingy with a splash of cooling from the dill pickle ranch. It’s one-part pizza, one-part buffalo wings, and 100% delicious.
Vegan Baked Ziti Pizza
Vegan Baked Ziti Pizza – Basically, this meat-free comfort food dish is everything you love about a classic baked ziti but veganized and on a PIZZA! This fun pizza recipe is shockingly easy and will be your favorite plant-based pizza to make.
Vegan Big Mac Pizza
Easy Vegan Cheeseburger Pizza – Fluffy, homemade pizza dough is topped with our vegan burger sauce, diced vegan burger piecess, vegan cheddar, dill pickle chips, and shredded lettuce and tomatoes to make the most glorious vegan Big Mac pizza ever to grace a plate.
Vegan Chicken Parm Pizza
Vegan Chicken Parm Pizza – Kid-approved, freezer-friendly, and easy to make, this vegan chicken parm pizza is a delicious twist on two classic comfort foods. You can make this vegan pizza from-scratch OR use the store-bought shortcuts we suggest.
Vegan Pesto Pizza
Vegan Pesto Pizza with Walnut Sausage – This no-proof vegan pesto pizza is packed with dairy-free basil pesto sauce and wall-to-wall sausage-style walnut meat on a rustic whole wheat pizza dough. This healthy pizza recipe can be made in under 40 minutes!
Vegan Thanksgiving Pizza
Thanksgiving Leftovers Pizza – This Vegan Thanksgiving Pizza (also known as a Vegan Christmas Pizza come late December) is the funnest way to use up your holiday meal leftovers since the creation of the Thanksgiving sandwich.
Vegan Chili Cheese Pizza
Vegan Chili Cheese Pizza – Vegan chili cheese fries are loaded onto a pizza and baked to tasty perfection. Suitable for vegans, vegetarians, dairy-free and low-cholesterol diets, but not for the faint of heart! LOL!
If you make any (or all!) of these pizzas, or if you have any questions we didn’t cover here, we’d love to hear from you! Leave your comment or question below!
Until then, happy plant-based pizza making!
