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Homemade vegan pizza including the potato-millet crust and cheez with all the works including toppings of mushrooms, onions, spinach, tomatoes, tomato sauce, olives, and artichokes! Healthy and delicious! 😋🍕🥗🍅 ____________________________ #tropicalsmoothieguy #veganpizza #veganpizzagram #homemadepizza #pizzafromscratch #pizzafromabove #healthypizza #vegancheese #vegancrust #veganfoodpic (at Las Vegas, Nevada)

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[gratingforgodot-blog]

Day Four: Blooming Flora Pie

Pizza is a term that gets thrown around without much repurcussion. Pizza’s core responsibility is to be cheesy, white, and doughy. Sure, sometimes there is spinach or a mushroom on top but the grease and shiny grime of the cheese covers up all that green. Pizza and vegan should not be confined within the same phrase, so get real don’t say “vegan pizza.” Just because something is circular and contains a type of crust does not mean it is pizza (and let me clear, that is OK!)! Let’s just call this almost as appealing alternative: Blooming Flora Pie, a name that is not misleading but still retains a sense of non-dairy phonetic deliciousness!

  What you will need for the crust: 1 cup raw almonds (processed into meal — you can also buy almond flour but buying your own almonds from the bulk section and then throwing them in a food processor is the cheaper option.) 1 cup oats (gluten-free if you prefer)

1 flax egg (grind 1 tbs of flax seed in a handheld blender, mix with 3 tbs of water, mix well, let sit in the fridge for up to an hour — this will make the flax egg gooey and this consistency will allow the crust to stick together *do this first*)

3 tbs cornmeal 

5 tablespoons of olive oil (or non-dairy butter) Process: 1.) Create your flax egg and let it sit in the fridge for an hour 

2.) Put raw almonds in the food processor and pulse until they resemble a flour. Next, add the oatmeal and pulse together.

3.) Add cornmeal, olive oil, 1 tps salt (optional) and process. 4.) Slowly pour in the flax egg as the above mixture is processing. You want to pour the flax in while the blade is pulsing. If the mixture sticks together then you are all set. If not, add 1 tablespoon of water (or more) until the dough can be handled.

5.) Brush the bottom of your pie pan with olive oil and sprinkle a little flour down; pat the dough into the pan until it forms a thin even layer.

  Once the crust if finished, clean out the processor and gather together the following items for the homemade pesto: 1 cup chopped basil 1 cup chopped parsley 1 cup chopped kale 1 lemon 1 cup raw pumpkin seeds 1/3 cup olive oil (or more to taste/desired consistency) 1 big clove of garlic (or 3 small cloves) —> as a side note I got this crazy elephant garlic at the farmer’s market. Look at the picture below - I placed it next to an apple for scale.

How to make the Pesto: (turn the oven to 350 at this point) 1.) Place the raw pumpkin seeds and garlic in the processor and pulse and squeeze the juice of one lemon.

 2.) Scrape down the sides of the mixer and pulse again. Drop in the basil, kale, and parsley. Get your 1/3 cup of olive oil poised and ready and as you are pulsing the 1 cup of basil, kale, and parsley pour the olive oil in very, very slowly. 

Now, you are ready to assemble the pie: 1.) Spread the pesto out in a thin layer  over the crust. Add toppings. For mine, I put on heirloom tomatoes and a couple pieces of spinach. 

2.) Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for around 20-25 minutes, or until the tomatoes are soft. Serve with kale or any type of green I massaged the kale with whole grain mustard and olive oil.