White Pizza with Sweet Potato, Onions, and Olives

Here’s a delectably different kind of pizza—a vegan white pizza brimming with well-cooked onions, roasted sweet potato, and briny olives. Combine this pizza with most any kind of salad, and you have a delicious cool-weather dinner. This recipe makes 6 to 8 slices; double it if you're feeding more than 3 hungry people! Photos by Evan Atlas. 

White Pizza with Sweet Potato, Onions, and Olives

Here’s a delectably different kind of pizza—a white vegan pizza brimming with well-cooked onions, roasted sweet potato, and briny olives.

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Course: Pizza

Cuisine: Vegan / Healthy

Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 55 minutes

Servings: 3 to 4

Author: Veg Kitchen

Ingredients

• 1 ½ tbsp olive oil
• 2 large onions quartered and thinly sliced (use yellow or red, or one of each)
• 3 –4 cloves garlic thinly sliced
• 1 large sweet potato see Note
• 2 tsp olive oil
• ½ 12.3 oz package silken tofu
• 2 tbsp unsweetened nondairy milk
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 12–14 oz pizza crust, good quality
• 1 cup vegan mozzarella-style shredded cheese such as Daiya
• ⅓ cup oil-cured pitted black olives such as Kalamata, chopped
• leaves from a sprig of fresh rosemary or dried rosemary to taste

Instructions

• Heat the oil in a medium skillet. Add the onions and sauté over medium-low heat until limp. Add the garlic and continue to sauté until the onion is deep golden, stirring frequently, about 15 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 425°F.
• While the onions are cooking, peel the sweet potato and cut into small dice. Place in a small mixing bowl and toss with the olive oil.
• Arrange the sweet potato dice in a lightly oiled or parchment-lined small baking pan. Bake for 15 minutes, or until just tender and lightly roasted, about 15 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes or so. Remove from the oven when done.
• Puree the tofu with the nondairy milk and salt in a food processor or with an immersion blender in its container.
• Place the crust on a baking sheet or a pizza stone. Spread the pureed tofu evenly over the surface of the crust with a baking spatula. Sprinkle with the vegan cheese.
• Layer the onion mixture evenly over the cheese layer. Scatter the roasted sweet potato pieces over the onion layer, followed by the olives.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the crust is golden. Cut into 6 to 8 slices and serve.

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Note: If you have a baked sweet potato on hand (or if you just want to pre-bake it in the microwave oven until done-but-still-a-little-firm, that's fine too), you can skip the step of roasting it.

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