Vegan Chorizo-Crusted Spicy Pineapple Pizza
Along with delicious toppings, this gluten-free, vegan pizza has a soy chorizo crust and almond mozzarella! Those two items are incredible all on their own! Add some pizza sauce and yummy sweet & spicy toppings, and you create a masterpiece!
Servings 4 personal-sized pizzas
Ingredients
For the soy chorizo crust...
- 6 oz soy chorizo (1/2 of a standard-sized packaged) For this recipe I prefer a soy chorizo with a meatier texture. I used Trader Joe's brand.
- 1 1/2 cup garbanzo bean flour
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 1/2 Tbsp garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 2 Tbsp + 2 tsp olive oil plus more for browning the soy chorizo
For topping...
- 3/4 cup Easy Peasy Pizza Sauce or store-bought pizza sauce of choice (ensure vegan)
- 1 - 1 1/2 cups Fresh Almond Mozzarella or vegan mozzarella of choice
- 2 cups fresh pineapple, sliced in rounds and then cut into bite-sized pieces or use canned
- 1 - 2 jalepeños, seeded and thinly sliced I used 1 large
- 1/2 cup red onion, diced
- 3/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 2 green onions, chopped
Instructions
- Heat a drizzle of oil in a medium skillet over medium heat and add soy chorizo. Cook until browned, stirring as needed to prevent burning. Remove from heat.
- Whisk together remaining crust ingredients. Stir in soy chorizo.
- Heat a 7 1/2 inch skillet to medium heat. Add 2 teaspoons of olive oil and once hot, pour in a quarter of the crust batter.
- Once the crust looks brown around the edges and has bubbles in the middle (like pancakes) carefully flip the crust to the opposite side using a large spatula. Turn down heat slighty.
- Once crust is browned, remove from skillet and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Continue with the rest of the batter, creating 4 pizza crusts.
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Spread each crust with pizza sauce, leaving a little bare around the edge. Add dollops of Fresh Almond Mozzarella (or vegan mozzarella of choice. Sprinkle if using shreds) on top of sauce. Next add pineapple pieces, jalepeño slices, and diced red onions.
- Place baking sheets in oven on the center rack (I fit all 4 pizzas on 2 large baking sheets). Bake for 10 minutes, removing and adding cilantro to the pizzas after 8 minutes.
- Remove pizzas from oven and top with chopped green onions. Once they've cooled for a couple of minutes, cut each pizza into 4 slices. Serve and enjoy!