Seize your comfies and settle in for this season’s coziest pizza: nutty roast squash sauce, creamy selfmade vegan ricotta and a kick of fiery candied chillies. End with a garnish of crispy fried sage for a vegan pizza that hits all the precise spots. This recipe is by Ooni ambassador and vegan pizza extraordinaire Julian Man of Pizza is Beautiful! Attempt it out if you happen to’re vegan, giving Veganuary a go, or simply trying to attempt one thing new and scrumptious.
Makes 1x 12”/16” pizza
Tools
Blender or meals processor
Oven dish
Components
For the roast squash sauce
1 butternut squash, finely diced
2 tbsp water
1.7oz (50g) vegan butter
Salt and pepper, to style
2 tbsp olive oil
For the candied chillies
5 giant pink chillies, finely sliced
4.1oz (60g) caster sugar
4.10z (60g) water
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
For the fried sage leaves
3 sage leaves
1 tbsp olive oil
Salt
For the pizza
8.8/11.6oz (250/330g) basic pizza dough
2.8oz (80g) vegan almond ricotta (see observe beneath)
2-3 tbsp roast squash sauce
3-5 tbsp candied chillies
3 fried sage leaves
Methodology
Follow our Vegan Almond Ricotta recipe to make a scrumptious, creamy and vegan various to conventional ricotta. Word that you simply’ll want to begin making ready this a minimum of two days prematurely of while you’d wish to apply it to the pizza.
Put together your pizza dough forward of time. Our information to making the perfect Classic Pizza Dough covers every part it’s worthwhile to know.
Preheat your kitchen oven to 300°F (150°C). Place the chopped butternut squash on a baking tray, toss in olive oil and prepare dinner for 40-50 minutes or till tender however not caramelized. Permit to chill.
In a blender, puree the roast squash with the water. Proceed including water till the sauce is clean and liquid sufficient to make use of on prime of a pizza – about the identical as a cooked tomato sauce. Mix within the vegan butter and season to style. Put aside. The amount of elements listed right here will make greater than what’s wanted for one pizza – retailer in an hermetic container within the fridge for future pizzas!
Subsequent, put together the candied chillies. In a saucepan over a medium warmth, add the sugar and water and warmth till the sugar dissolves. Add the chillies, cowl with a lid, and depart to simmer for 20 minutes, or till the chillies are cooked and glassy, and the syrup has taken on the flavour of the chilli. Decant right into a jar or bottle, add the apple cider vinegar and stir. Put aside. Once more, this recipe makes greater than what’s wanted for one pizza, so retailer in an hermetic container within the fridge for while you’d like to make use of it subsequent.
This pizza is completed with aromatic fried sage leaves. Place a sheet of paper towel on a plate, and warmth the tablespoon of olive oil in a saucepan over a medium-high warmth. Add the sage and fry for a few seconds on either side. Don’t allow them to flip brown. Take away from the pan utilizing a slotted spoon and place on the paper towel to empty and switch crispy. Sprinkle with salt and depart to chill.
As soon as your pizza dough and all these pizza topping components are prepared, hearth up your Ooni pizza oven. Intention for 932˚F (500˚C) on the stone baking board inside. You may test the temperature inside your Ooni shortly and simply utilizing the Ooni Infrared Thermometer.
Utilizing a small quantity of flour, mud your Ooni pizza peel. Stretch the pizza dough ball out to 12”/16” and lay it out in your pizza peel. Take a spoonful of squash sauce and unfold evenly throughout the pizza. Add just a few beneficiant dollops of ricotta, a little bit of the chilli syrup, and as many candied chillies as you dare!
Slide the pizza off the peel and into your Ooni pizza oven, ensuring to rotate the pizza recurrently.
As soon as cooked, take away the pizza from the oven. Whereas it’s nonetheless heat, crumble the crispy fried sage leaves excessive. Serve instantly and indulge on this scrumptious winter deal with!
Searching for extra vegan inspiration? Take a look at our recipe utilizing this vegan ricotta for Vegan Ricotta, Spinach & Caramelized Onion Pizza, plus our full vegan recipe collection.
Vegan Ricotta, Candied Chilli & Roast Squash Sauce Pizza
Seize your comfies and settle in for this season’s coziest pizza: nutty roast squash sauce, creamy selfmade vegan ricotta and a kick of fiery candied chillies.
