Vegan Pizza Recipes

Vegan pizza, made with creative toppings and dairy-free cheese, is the ultimate comfort food. You’ll find something for everyone in this list of vegan pizza recipes.

Vegan Pizza

I’ve had people tell me that they could never go vegan because they couldn’t live without pizza. And when I tell them that vegan pizza exists, they say, “yea, but it’s not the same.” Of course it’s not the same. In fact, it’s much, much better.

I eat pizza once every week or two, and I rarely make the same recipe twice! With vegan cheeses like Miyokos, Violife, Daiya, and Follow Your Heart, it’s easy to recreate the omnivore pies I used to enjoy, but I like to get creative and experiment with different types of pizzas.

Even though I do have a pizza dough recipe in my cookbook Eating Vegan, I tend to buy pre-made multigrain dough at either Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. If you follow a gluten-free diet, Trader Joe’s has a really good frozen cauliflower crust, and Bob’s Red Mill makes a gluten-free crust mix.

National Pizza Day

Did you know that February 9th is National Pizza Day? Yep, it’s a thing! It’s not too surprising that pizza gets it’s own day, since Americans do love it so much. Gennaro Lombardi in New York City was the first pizzeria in the United States, opening its doors in 1895. It’s still open, and I had a chance to eat there years ago, before I went vegan. Many, many more pizzerias have opened since then. In fact, about 17% of the restaurants in the U.S. are pizzerias and they make over 3 billion pizzas each year.