I Finally Made A Hummus Deep Dish Pizza

A slice of hummus deep dish pizza with onions and red bell peppers.

Today I finally decided to try my hand at making hummus pizza, which is something I have wanted to taste for along time. I adore hummus and vegan pizza, so why not bring the best of both worlds into one homemade pie. I am a self-proclaimed hummus lover, so anything chickpea and tahini related is right up my alley.

The first step to making the pizza was to mix up the dough.

I used Bob’s Red Mill Whole Wheat Pastry Flour for the dough.
The flour is so finely ground that it is quite beautiful to behold. I wanted to experiment with using pastry flour in a pizza crust since this is usually recommended for pie crust dough.

The pizza dough recipe consisted of:

  • 2 1/2 cups of flour
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 3 tablespoons of oil
  • 2 crushed cloves of garlic
  • a package of Fleishman’s pizza crust yeast
  • a cup of water warmed in the microwave

To construct the pizza crust, I simply microwaved a cup of water for one minute and then poured it into the bowl. Next, I dumped the yeast in and stir it around a bit. There is no need to wait with the pizza dough yeast, but I feel the results are better when I first dissolve the substance into warm water the way regular yeast needs to be liquefied.

I find that dissolving the pizza crust yeast in warm water like traditional yeast increases its efficacy.
I flattened out the dough and then spread the hummus layer on top.

Rather than having to use a rolling pin or tossing the dough into a flat shape, I simply used my fingers to stretch out the dough on a glass pan. Once the dough was stretched out across the baking dish, I spread a thick layer of hummus on with a batter spatula.

I sprinkled nutritional yeast over the top of the pizza crust.

I sprinkled a layer of nutritional yeast over the hummus.

I chopped up red bell pepper and white onion to sprinkle on top of the pizza.

For my vegan pizzas, I always use whatever vegetables I have left-over in the fridge, which happened to be red bell peppers and onions, so that is what I put on the pie.

Here is the pizza after I took it out of the oven.

I baked the pizza at 425 degrees in the oven for about twenty-five minutes.

I loved the thick deep dish slices.
I ate a lot of the pizza very quickly since it turned out to be quite tasty.

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