Vegan Caramelized Mushroom Pizza

• servings: 3 servings
• active time: 20 minutes
• total time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil

4oz shiitake mushrooms, stems trimmed and thinly sliced

8oz cremini mushrooms, stems trimmed and thinly sliced

1/2 large sweet onion, diced

4 cloves garlic, minced

1/2 tsp salt, more to taste

freshly ground black pepper to taste

Pizza Dough

Vegan Garlic White Sauce

Vegan mozzarella

Fresh rosemary

Directions

Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the mushrooms, onion, and garlic. Sauté until all the water has evaporated, about 7-10 minutes.

Add the salt and cook another 2-4 minutes, or until all the liquid has cooked off and the mushrooms start sticking to the pan. Turn off heat and set aside until ready to assemble pizzas

One hour before you're ready to bake, preheat your oven to 550 ºF, or as hot as it will go. Place a rack one third of the way down from the top of the oven, and place a baking steel or baking stone on that rack. You want the oven to saturate with heat for 1 hour before baking pizza for best results.

At this time also remove the pizza dough from the fridge so it can come to room temperature and the gluten can relax.

When the oven is nice and hot, prepare your pizzas one at a time. Stretch (don't roll!) your dough to around 10-12" diameter and place on a lightly floured pizza peel. Spread the garlic white sauce over the dough then top with the caramelized mushroom mixture, vegan mozzarella, and the fresh rosemary.

Transfer the pizza onto the baking steel or pizza stone and bake for about 8 minutes. If needed, turn the heat to broil for another 1-2 minutes to brown the top. Alternatively, bake on a baking sheet: assemble the pizza straight on the pan and place directly in the oven to bake.

Repeat the pizza assembly and baking with the remaining dough.

Let the pizza cool for a couple minutes before cutting and serve with crushed red pepper. Enjoy while hot!