Sweet Potato Pizza Crust

I am going to be honest. This doesn't really taste like pizza and you will have to eat it with a knife and fork. I just want to prepare you. However, to be honest again, it is absolutely and utterly delicious! I could not believe how good this crust came out with the vegan cheese and home-made pizza sauce. Once the components are prepared, it is easy to assemble.

​Prepare the sweet potato crust first, and while that pre-bakes in the oven, prepare the pizza sauce and blend the vegan cheese ingredients. For the vegan cheese start cooking on the stove just before you want to top it on the crust and pizza sauce. Then top with your favorite toppings and add to the oven again. 

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Sweet Potato Pizza Crust Recipe
vegan, plant-based, gluten-free, refined sugar-free

Ingredients:
Crust

• 2-3 sweet potatoes (about 10 oz.)
• 1 Flax egg (1 Tbsp ground flax seed with 2.5 Tbsp water)
• ½ cup ground raw almonds (or walnuts, pecans, or cashews)
• 2 Tbsp nutritional yeast
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp garlic powder

Tomato Sauce

• 6 oz. tomato paste
• 15 oz. tomato puree
• 2 Tbsp dried oregano
• 1 Tbsp dried basil
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp onion powder
• ½ tsp salt
• Pinch of black pepper

Vegan Cheese

• 300ml water
• 180 g raw cashews
• 3 Tbsp nutritional yeast
• ½ tsp salt

Instructions:
Pizza crust

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Add the water to the ground flax seed and let thicken.
3. Microwave the potatoes for 2 x 2 min. each until cooked through and let cool
4. Scoop out the sweet potatoes from the skin and add to a food processor, and the rest of the ingredients and process until relatively smooth, it can be a little lumpy.
5. Place parchment paper on a baking sheet grease with about 2 tsp of olive oil.
6. Spread out the crust mixture on the parchment paper and brush on 1 Tbsp olive oil on the top.
7. Add to oven and bake 25 min.

Tomato Sauce

1. Add all the ingredients to a sauce pan and whisk to mix.
2. Cook for 5-10 min. to thicken up and then pour desired amount to the pizza crust after it has baked for 25min.
3. Then top with the cheese (see below).

Vegan Cheese

1. Place all of the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Add to a small sauce pan at medium heat and cook until thickened.
3. Pour over the pizza crust and tomato sauce with any toppings of choice (e.g. mushrooms, onions, green pepper, fresh spinach etc.).
4. Place back in the oven and bake an additional 10-15 min.
5. Remove from oven and enjoy!