Vegan Zine

Ingredients:

Fresh pizza dough (recipe here), dough from a mix, or bought crust

For Sauce:

1 400g tin of tomatoes

1-2 garlic cloves

1 small chopped white onion

tomato puree

Dried or fresh mixed herbs: parsley, rosemary, basil, marjoram, thyme and coriander

Chopped Vegetable Toppings:

1 small Red Onion,

1 large green bell pepper,

1 large red bell pepper

20g Button Mushrooms,

30g Black Olives

1 Courgette (zucchini),

2 Tomatoes,

1 Garlic Clove (crushed)

Method:

Pizza Sauce

For the sauce, sauté 2 chopped cloves of garlic and chopped white onion for a few minutes, add tin of tomatoes and reduce it down to a paste. Cook on a low heat for about 15 minutes – ensuring the mixture does not become too watery, add a generous amount of tomato puree (not ketchup!) and sprinkle mixed herbs. Then use blender too a smooth paste.

Topping:

Prepare pizza dough and press into pizza pan (or onto baking tray if you don't have a pizza pan). Use spoon to spread the sauce onto the pizza base and add vegetables and other toppings. Bake for around 20 minutes at a moderate heat of 350ºF / Gas Mark 4

Serve hot.

Notes:

The pizza takes about 25 minutes to prepare, or one hour and 25 minutes if you prepare your own dough.

Pizza dough, boxed mixes, and pre-baked crusts can be bought at many supermarketss. However, these can, sometimes contain eggs, milk, whey or lactose so check ingredients.