Sweet Potato Pizza with Sun-dried Pesto Sauce

Since becoming a full fledged vegan (about 2 years ago) I haven’t had a good pizza, why not give a vegan one a try! I love sweet potato so it wasn’t an accident that I chose this as my main ingredient for the crust. Another favorite food of mine is sun-dried tomato pesto. Instead of traditional pizza sauce I made a tomato based pesto sauce. This is my attempt at a Sweet Potato Pizza with Sun-dried Pesto Sauce.

As you know traditional pizzas are topped with full fat cheese and meat toppings, I went for fresh vegetables and no cheese! These included, peppers, red onions, kale and asparagus. You can add your own favorite toppings to make this “your” pizza. You may even opt to use a vegan cheese to give your pizza that traditional look. There is a fair amount of prep work when making the crust for this pizza so be warned! The pesto however only takes around 5 minutes.

Spread sweet potato mixture over parchment so that it is even and flat. Bake in oven at 400F until golden brown and crispy (about 40mins)

Remove pizza from oven and spread prepared pesto sauce on the crust.

Sweet Potato Pizza with Sun-dried Pesto Sauce

 

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Prep time

30 mins

Cook time

1 hour 10 mins

Total time

1 hour 40 mins

 

Author: RipeLife

Recipe type: Entree

Cuisine: American

Serves: 8 slices

Ingredients

• Sun Dried Tomato and Almond Pesto ingredients
• ½ cup silvered almonds
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 cup drained oil packed sun dried tomatoes
• ¼ teaspoon salt and pepper
• ⅓ olive oil
• Pizza ingredients
• 5½ cups peeled and cubed sweet potatoes (about 2 large sweet potatoes)
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1¼ cup oat flour or make your own by processing oats.
• ¼ cup almond meal
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1¼ teaspoons garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
• pinch of chili flakes
• Toppings
• Bunch of asparagus trimmed
• ½ red onion sliced
• 1 cup of kale
• ½ red pepper thinly sliced
• ½ orange pepper thinly sliced

Instructions

1. Instructions for Sun Dried Tomato and Almond Pesto
2. In food processor pulse almonds with garlic until coarsely ground.
3. Add tomatoes salt and pepper pulse till finely chopped.
4. With motor running add oil I thin steadily stream until smooth.
5. Set aside for pizza.
6. Instructions for pizza
7. Steam the sweet potato cubes in a steamer or over the stove for 30 minutes or until fork-tender.
8. Add the chia seeds and water to a small bowl, whisk with a fork, and let stand at room temperature for 10 minutes to create a chia egg.
9. Preheat oven to 400F.
10. Add the steamed sweet potatoes to a large mixing bowl and mash them.
11. Add in the chia egg, oat flour, almond meal, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, basil, oregano, garlic powder, sea salt, and chili flakes. Stir together until combined.
12. Line a round pizza pan with parchment paper. Scoop the sweet potato mixture onto the parchment paper and use a spatula to spread it into a large circle on the pizza pan. When you're done, you should have a ½-inch thick pizza crust.
13. Pop the pizza pan in the oven and bake for 40 minutes or until the crust is set and the edges are golden brown.
14. Remove the crust from the oven
15. Spread pesto over sweet potato crust.
16. Toss asparagus and kale in olive oil. Top pizza with asparagus, red onion, peppers and kale.
17. Return pizza to oven for 10 minutes.
18. Slice and serve.

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