Description
We 20/10 recommend this vegan thin crust pizza dough recipe! This bad boy is here to make your pizza dreams come true- get your sauce, get your toppings and *most importantly* get crackin’ on this vegan thin crust pizza dough!
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar, honey, or maple syrup
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoon chopped fresh herbs (optional)
Instructions
- Combine yeast, sweetener, and warm water in a mixing bowl. This is a sponge to wake up the yeast. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Add flour, salt, and fresh herbs into the mixing bowl, stir to combine
- As the the mixture turns into a dough, roll out on a floured surface and knead less than 5 minutes. If dough remains sticky add flour as needed until smooth.
- Place dough back into mixing bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave to rise until doubled in size, 30-90 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 500*. If using a pizza stone, place in oven at this time.
- Flour a cutting board/countertop and press the dough into a disc. Cut the disc into 2 pieces.
- Working with one piece of dough at a time, rollout until the pizza dough is roughly 12″. It can be larger or smaller, but for this recipe 12″ is the ideal thickness for a thin crispy crust.
- Leave the rolled out pizza dough to rise for 15 minutes while the oven preheats. Ideally you’ll want your oven to maintain 500* for about 15 minutes prior to baking your first pie.
- Slide pizza onto parchment and onto the pan. Par-bake with no toppings for 5 minutes.
- Remove pizza from oven (it should have air bubbles and be golden brown in some areas), flip the crust over and add toppings to your pizza.
- Return to oven and bake an additional 5-7 minutes. For added browning on the crust, lightly drizzle olive oil around the perimeter on the crust.
- Remove from oven and repeat with the second pizza.
Notes
** This recipe will make 2- 12″ thin crust vegan pizzas. If you roll the dough into smaller pizzas, the crust will be thicker.
** You don’t HAVE to parbake and flip the crust but these steps are instrumental in achieveing a crispy, air bubbly crust!
** A perforated pan works well for creating a crispy crust. If you use a pizza stone ensure the stone is VERY hot!
** If you want a REAL crispy crust, brush the crust with olive oil prior to parbaking and keep an eye on the pie as it will brown faster!
Keywords: vegan pizza crust, vegan pizza, yeasted bread