Six-Ingredient Sweet Potato Personal Pizza Crust (Gluten Free, Vegan)

This post is kindly sponsored by Pereg Natural Foods.

What happens when a celiac is on the hunt for the best gluten free pizza recipe and has some leftover sweet potato in her fridge? She comes up with the sweet potato pizza crust recipe of her gluten free and vegan dreams, of course! 

This sweet potato pizza is packed with fiber and antioxidants from the sweet potato and chia seeds. Thanks to Pereg Natural Food's All Purpose Buckwheat Flour, this gluten free pizza crust is also high in iron and offers some plant-based protein. The best part? The sweet potato pizza crust features only six ingredients (excluding water), making this one of the easiest personal pizza recipes out there!

Six-Ingredient Sweet Potato Pizza Crust (Gluten Free, Vegan)

What about the texture of this gluten free pizza crust? This sweet potato pizza crust is chewy, hardy enough to be eaten with your hands and packed with sweet potato undertones that perfectly complement lots of veggie toppings and some creamy avocado on the side. 

Ready to try this sweet potato pizza for yourself? Let's dig in...

Ingredients for one Sweet Potato Pizza Crust: 

(Makes one large or two medium servings)

1/4 cup of buckwheat flour (ground yourself from buckwheat groats or from a mix like this one from Pereg Natural Foods)
1/4 cooked large sweet potato (around 8 inches long, 2 inches wide at largest point), mashed
1 chia egg (1 TBSP ground chia seeds + 3 TBSP water)
1/8 tsp baking soda
1 extra TBSP of water
Spices of choice (I use oregano and thyme)

Six-Ingredient Sweet Potato Pizza Crust (Gluten Free, Vegan)

Topping Ideas for your Sweet Potato Pizza:

Pizza sauce, homemade pesto (like my nut free pesto recipe), vegan coconut milk white sauce (as seen here)
Leafy greens
Vegetables of choice (I used sliced summer squash, zucchini and rainbow cauliflower)
Some of the rest of your sweet potato
Chickpeas (or other protein)
Cheese of choice (I used vegan mozzarella from Daiya

How to Make Your Gluten Free Pizza Crust:

Start by preheating the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit...and by making your chia egg, which needs around 10 minutes to gel! If you don't already have some, grind around one TBSP of chia seeds (in a coffee grinder or powerful blender) into powder. Add one TBSP of the ground chia seeds into a small bowl, followed by three TBSP of water. Mix thoroughly and set aside.

Now, you need to get the sweet potato ready for your sweet potato pizza crust. As I mentioned earlier, this is the perfect gluten free pizza recipe to use up leftover cooked sweet potatoes. If you don't have any leftovers on hand, though, you can use store-bought potato puree or cook your own. Just poke your sweet potato thoroughly with a fork and microwave (or bake) it until tender. Once cooked, transfer one-fourth of the sweet potato to a bowl and get mashing! I kept the skin on and shredded it, but you can also just use the insides of the sweet potato. 

Six-Ingredient Sweet Potato Pizza Crust (Gluten Free, Vegan)
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Done mashing and shredding your 'tater? Add your chia egg (which should have formed a thick, jello-like consistency) and the dry ingredients. Mix well with a fork. If your vegan pizza dough seems too dry (which mine did), add one TBSP of water. By the end, you should have a thick, slightly sticky gluten free pizza dough!

Now the fun part: shaping your sweet potato pizza crust! My secret is using a piece of plastic wrap to shape my pizza dough on parchment paper, keeping my hands nice and clean! I prefer a thin gluten free pizza crust, so I spread my dough (into the shape of a heart!) until it was around an eighth of an inch thick. For a thicker vegan pizza crust, just leave your dough more compact.

Once your pizza is properly shaped, sprinkle on a little more spices and pop it in the oven. You'll bake your sweet potato pizza crust for around 30 minutes total. How you split up the time depends on your toppings. Want to add lots of uncooked veggies like I did? Pull out your crust after ten minutes, or when it's still a bit soft but no longer sticky. Because the sweet potato pizza crust already has an earthy, slightly sweet flavor, I left my pizza sauce-less. I just stacked shredded spinach, sliced zucchini, squash, rainbow cauliflower, chickpeas, some extra dollups and sweet potato and a sprinkle of Daiya cheese. Then, I baked my sweet potato pizza for another 20 minutes, or until the veggies were cooked through and the crust felt a little crispy on the edges. 

Six-Ingredient Sweet Potato Pizza Crust (Gluten Free, Vegan)

If you're adding minimal or pre-cooked toppings, bake the crust on its own for around 15 minutes. Then, add your toppings and put your sweet potato pizza back in the oven for another 15 minutes or until cooked through. 

How to Serve Your Gluten Free Pizza:

After your gluten free pizza is done, you can dig in! I served mine with a side salad, steamed green beans and some super creamy avocado. 
As always, this sweet potato pizza recipe is yours to experiment with. Besides buckwheat flour, Pereg Natural Foods offers a variety of other gluten free baking flours, like Quinoa, Teff, Coconut and Almond. I bet most of these (except the coconut) could be subbed for buckwheat flour in this gluten free pizza crust recipe. (And if you're an adventurous foodie, you could also explore Pereg Natural Foods' quinoa pastas, new kaniwa (baby quinoa) and even banana flour.)

This sweet potato pizza crust would also make an EPIC brunch if you topped it with an egg (or scrambled tofu, for a vegan option), avocado and salsa. The pizza possibilities are endless, so do what you need to do to make this the best gluten free pizza crust for you! 

Six-Ingredient Sweet Potato Pizza Crust (Gluten Free, Vegan)

Regular readers of this blog probably know that I don't fool around when it comes to sweet potatoes and gluten free pizza...and this sweet potato pizza recipe proves it. Healthy? Check. Allergy-friendly? Check. Way more delicious than people ever expect with gluten free and vegan food? Check! 

Now, it's your turn to check out this sweet potato pizza crust...and check "eat an epic gluten free pizza" off your bucket list!


*I received products from Pereg Natural Foods in return for an honest review. However, all opinions, photographs and recipes are my own. Thanks for supporting what supports Casey the College Celiac*

What are your favorite pizza toppings? Have you ever heard of Pereg Foods? Tell me your thoughts in the comments! 

Comments

  1. I can't wait to give this a try. I've been looking for new ideas to use the buckwheat grouts I bought!

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    1. Buckwheat groats are AMAZING. I love using them in granola, pizza (obviously), pancakes and more!

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  2. This looks so yummy! I tried out a cauliflower crust a couple days ago and did not love it. I am hoping I can try this out soon because I love sweet potatoes and it looks so delicious. Gluten free baking/cooking has seriously come such a long way since I started eating gluten free in 2013.

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    1. Thank goodness for all the progress gluten free cooking and baking has made! Hope you love this better than the cauli crust!

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  3. This looks like a tasty treat indeed. I love making coli-flour crust pizza but my family doesn't care for it all that much. I will give this a shot and see what they think. Thanks

    Cheers

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    1. Hope your family loves this one! My other pizza crust - just check my recipe tab - is another winner if your family doesn't like sweet potato :)

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  4. What a fun, beautiful pizza! I can't wait to try this crust.

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  5. Looks delicious! Will have to try!

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  6. I've never thought to make a pizza crust out of sweet potato before. This sounds so so good and so healthy! Genius!

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  7. That looks like something I'd enjoy. I'm not sure (actually, I'm pretty much not sure) my wife wouldn't go for it, she not being a fan of sweet potatoes. But sweet potatoes are useful in a variety of ways.

    The other night we had had Alaskan "true" cod as the main part of dinner, along with some broccoli and cauliflower. Leftovers were some cod, one broc floret, and two cauliflower florets. I had half a medium sized sweet potato that I'd baked (left over from another thing), so I mixed/mashed them all together into a sweet potato/cod/broc/cauliflower mixture (with a few added seasonings) and made three patties. For each, I took a lump of the mixture, rolled it in crumbs (all gluten free, of course), and baked it on a griddle. I ate a couple of them (one left for a snack) with a Mexican salsa. All very tasty. I'm not sure one should call sweet potato "the universal binder", but that wouldn't be far off.

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    1. Those patties sound amazing! And sweet potato is definitely an AMAZING binder. I've used it in homemade granola for the same thing! So versatile!

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  8. This is definitely something that my sister needs to try! Definitely will tell her about this.

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  9. I am a little confused. The title says personal pizza crust but in the directions it says it yields one large and two medium servings. Was that supposed to be an or?

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    1. Hi Sarah! That was an error - it was supposed to say "or" and I have corrected it now. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out! Have a fabulous rest of your week! <3

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    2. Thank you! I am looking forward to trying this.

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  10. What a beautiful pizza! I never would have thought of a sweet potato crust - excited to try! So creative :)

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  11. Never would have thought this, I love Pizza but I don't like to eat wheat so this is a great alternative. Thank you for sharing this, I will give it a try and see how I can make it turn out.

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    1. Thanks for the kind words, Helen. Hope you love this!

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  12. I adore sweet potato so much, but have never thought to make a pizza crust with it. If this pizza is anything to go by, I need to make it ASAP, because this whole pizza and crust look delicious!

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    1. It's definitely a must for pizza and sweet potato lovers!

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  13. Great pictures and the colours of the veggies are vibrant looks so fresh and yummy.

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    1. Thanks so much! The photos took a few tries to get right thanks to the weather, but I persevered! ;)

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  14. Really like the base here and the innovative way you've used the buckwheat and sweet potato. Will certainly give this a go soon.

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  15. mmmm this sounds so good!! my favorite pizza topping would have to be caramelized onions, though I must confess that I put them on almost anything and everything!!

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    1. I'm not an onion person but my college roommate is ADDICTED!

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  16. I absolutely love sweet potato, and i am so keen to try this out. my cauliflower pizza base was an absolute fail - but i think from your pics the sweet potato holds together nicely!

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  17. OMG! it looks so delicious!

    But why aren't you using some tool to generate recipe cards for your recipes?
    Here is a good one with nice features: http://www.recipesgenerator.com

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    1. Thanks for the tip, Omar. I'm not sure if it's compatible with Blogger but I'll see.

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  18. This looks a much healthier version of a normal pizza. One to bookmark for sure

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  19. That's so healthy and better than regular pizza!

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  20. I really need to get some buckwheat flour. I love the flavor and I haven't had any in awhile. Using the sweet potato is great to help improve the structure and add moisture. One question...how big was your sweet potato?

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    1. Buckwheat flour is def one of my favorites. I've added in some more info to explain the size (obviously must've slipped my mind)! Mine was a large sweet potato around 7-8 inches long. If you have a smaller sweet potato, you can just use more of the whole potato. And if your dough doesn't seem wet enough, that's probably a sign you need a little more sweet potato :) Thanks for asking and pointing out that I was missing that info! Hope you get to try buckwheat flour soon!

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  21. This looks so delicious, and of course healthy. I love sweet potato and pizza. Would have thought to combing the two!

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  22. Thanks Casey, I will give this one a try!

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  23. This looks so good. I've tried Paleo pizza (It was also gluten free) that had eggs on top, but this looks even yummier. Might try it with eggs as well.

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