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Vegan Shaved Asparagus Pizza with Cheesy Kale Sauce

This bright, cheesy, spicy Vegan Shaved Asparagus Pizza is perfect to make to impress your loved ones, for brunch, dinner or even picnics!

  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 50 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour
  • Yield: 4 people 1x
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: American, Italian
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Ingredients

Pizza dough

  • 240 ml luke-warm water
  • 1 pack fast-action yeast (7g)
  • 2 tsp maple syrup
  • 390 g all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Cheesy Kale Pizza Sauce

  • 45 cups chopped kale
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • 1/2 cup nutritional yeast
  • 1/2 cup walnuts
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 5 tbsp water (+ 2 tbsp more if needed)

Shaved Asparagus Topping

  • 222 g asparagus
  • 1/2 cup crumbled tofu
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • 1 tsp chilli flakes (or, to taste! )
  • 1 tsp mixed herbs
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • zest from one lemon

Instructions

Pizza dough

  1. Combine lukewarm water with maple syrup and yeast. Set aside for 5-10 minutes.
  2. In another bowl, combine all-purpose flour, salt and olive oil. Pour the wet over the dry and bring together. 
  3. Knead on a well-floured surface for 5 minutes or until dough is soft to touch.
  4. Divide dough into two and shape into balls. Grease two bowls with a little oil, and place one dough ball in each. Cover with a tea towel and allow to proof for 45mins or until doubled in size.

Cheesy Kale Sauce

  1. In a pan, add a splash of water with the chopped kale. Cook until wilted and all the water has disappeared. Once done, allow to cool slightly.
  2. Add wilted kale, salt, black pepper, walnuts, nutritional yeast, garlic, olive oil and water into a food processor and blend. (it's okay if a few kale leaves look like they've been chopped and haven't been blended fully!)

Shaved Asparagus Topping

  1. Shave the asparagus, then toss with lemon juice, lemon zest, tofu, chilli flakes, black pepper, salt, mixed pepper and olive oil. Set aside.

Assembly

  1. Pre-heat oven to 260C/500F,
  2. Punch out the air from your dough (my favourite part). Then, on a well-floured surface roll into a rough rectangle shape. Transfer onto a well-oiled baking tray. If you need to, stretch your dough to fit your baking tray.
  3. Spread around half (or slightly less) of the Cheesy Kale Sauce. Arrange the asparagus over the sauce. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the pizza base is fully cooked!

Notes

You may have some leftover Cheesy Kale Sauce! Use it in salads, as a spread over toast, or you could even use it to make naan pizza!