Veg Pizza | Vegetable Pizza | Vegetarian Pizza

Vegetable Pizza is a flat round bread. The typical way of baking this pizza is with vegetable toppings and mozzarella cheese.  First top it with a pizza sauce, generally, marinara sauce. Then fill the crust with your favorite toppings and cheese.

The marinara sauce has tomatoes puree and tastes excellent on a pizza. You can alter this Vegetarian Pizza as you wish. But to make pizza dough, please follow proper instructions.

For the Veg Pizza, you can add vegetables like tomatoes, red bell pepper (red capsicum), green bell pepper (green capsicum), yellow bell pepper (yellow capsicum), red/white onions, mushrooms, or pineapple. 

Pineapple? Some of you might be wondering how pineapple works as a pizza topping. Well yes, you should definitely try pineapple. It tastes amazing. In fact, it’s my favorite topping. 

Furthermore, you can also select your favorite pizza sauce. Sometimes, when I run out of pizza sauce or feel lazy making one from scratch, I use tomato ketchup. Stir fry vegetables with tomato ketchup tastes great too. 

Other than tomato ketchup there are other sauces too. They are schezwan sauce (make sure you use little, it’s damn spicy), mayonnaise, pudina chutney, ranch or any pizza sauce. At times, I also use other pasta sauces like Alfredo, pesto, etc. 

The advantage of having a homemade pizza is – it is healthy and fresh. Also, it serves the purpose of making a pizza as per our likings. Other than the vegetables and sauce, you can also decide the type of cheese you would like to add. Such as cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese or combine many kinds of cheese. 

Talking of cheese, you can also use Indian cottage cheese (paneer). There are various ways of using paneer as a topping. With paneer, you can make paneer tikka, paneer chilli, paneer butter masala, paneer bhurji, or add paneer along with the vegetables. 

In this recipe, I have used a homemade pizza base and marinara sauce (pizza sauce). Please have a look at the recipe posts for pizza crust and pizza sauce from scratch. If you do not wish to prepare from scratch, they’re available at any grocery store or supermarket. 

Finally, I sprinkle some Italian seasoning, chilli flakes, and black pepper on top. Then bake the pizza as per the baking instructions given below. You can have pizza as a snack as well as the main course. I hope you enjoy baking this vegetable pizza for your family and friends. 

Additionally, you can look at my other related collections – Italian recipes, Appetizers, Evening Snacks and Lunch/Dinner recipes which include Garlic Bread, Marinara Sauce, Vegetable Stuffed Mushrooms, Pizza Crust, Veg Manchurian, Mushroom Manchurian, Potato Nuggets, Vegetable Samosa, Paneer Bhurji, Tomato Cucumber Sandwich, Bombay Sandwich, Pani Puri, Cabbage Momos, Pav Bhaji, Chicken Biryani, Dal Tadka, Paneer Capsicum Masala and Veg Pulao.

Recipe Card for Veg Pizza

How to make Vegetable Pizza step-by-step? 

Step 1: Preheat the oven at 200 degrees Celsius. Place a butter paper or parchment paper on a pizza pan. If you do not have butter paper or parchment paper, you can grease the pan with oil or butter.

Step 2: Place the pizza base on the pan and spread half cup of pizza sauce. 

Step 3: Add chopped vegetables like ½ large diced red onion, 1 large diced tomato, 5-6 button mushrooms, and 1 medium diced green bell pepper (green capsicum). 

Step 4: Now add ½ cup grated mozzarella cheese. 

Step 5: Sprinkle ½ teaspoon of chilli flakes and ½ teaspoon of Italian seasoning. 

Step 6: Once the oven preheats, place the pizza pan in the oven and bake for exactly 15 minutes.

Step 7: Veg Pizza is ready. Garnish some more cheese if required. Serve it hot with a cold drink and garlic bread.