Ethiopian Berbere Chickpea Pizza Recipe with Tahini Garlic Dressing. Amazingly flavorful pizza. Dress with tahini dressing, vegan ranch or other creamy dressing. Vegan Soyfree Nut-free Recipe. Gluten-free Crust option. Jump to Recipe
Do we need more chickpeas on pizza recipes, yes of course! This pizza is more like a flatbread with an olive oil glaze, tomatoes and onions, a generous layer of chickpeas tossed in Ethiopian berbere spice blend. Once baked, it is finished with a tahini dressing, or other creamy dressing or use lemon juice.
The crust is my 20 minute crust. It is a simple crust where the flour, water, yeast is mixed up to a loosely formed soft dough, no kneading necessary. Let it sit for 5-10 mins, shape, add layers. See Crust video on this post. For the pictured crust, Iused half whole wheat and half white flour.
I work in parallel for the pizza so the crust sitting close to the heating oven gets plenty rise time while I prep the layers and add them. The chickpeas are tossed with berbere spice, salt, garlic. The veggies sliced thin. The dressing can be made from scratch or use vegan mozzarella shreds or vegan ranch. Bake and done. For variations, use other beans or lentils or a mix of chickpeas and veggies such as zucchini, mushrooms, or partially cooked cauliflower.
Berbere ideally is a paste made by simmering the whole spices with onion and garlic, then blended and used. I use a dry spice mix for this recipe (see from scratch recipe below). Use premade berbere or use other spice blends like Shawarma or Garam masala as both pair well with creamy tahini based dressing. You can easily make this baked on a large tortilla for a tortilla pizza or roll up into a wrap. Cook the spiced chickpeas on stove top or bake until crisp and use with veggies, lettuce, tahini dressing.
Make this and let me know in the comments how it turned out! I love hearing from you. Do post pictures and tag me on instagram or post on my facebook page.
More pizzas from the blog
- Simple Veggie Pizza with 20 minute Crust with garlicky olive oil and no cheese.
- Pizza with chipotle red lentil tomato sauce and vegan ricotta , this pizza sauce also is amazing as pasta sauce
- Sriracha BBQ Tofu Pizza with almond milk pepperjack because Sriracha!
- Deep dish Black eyed pea Pizza
- Buffalo Chickpea Pizza with celery ranch dressing. Looks time intensive but really isnt.
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Back to this pizza. Shape the dough. Brush olive oil.
Layer tomatoes, bebere spiced chickpeas
Add onions, some of the tahini dressing.
Bake.
Garnish with cilantro and more tahini dressing or other creamy dressing. Slice and Serve. This is a strong flavored pizza, which you an taste test as you go before baking. Adjust the spices in the chickpeas before spreading and baking.
Ethiopian Berbere Chickpea Pizza Recipe with Tahini Garlic Dressing
Ingredients
Berbere spice blend:
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) ground coriander
- 1 to 1.5 tsp paprika I use a combination of sweet and smoky
- 1/3 tsp (0.33 tsp) ground cumin
- 1/8 tsp (0.13 tsp) fenugreek seed powder or ground mustard
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) black pepper
- 1/4 to 1/3 tsp cardamom
- a generous pinch of clove powder ginger powder, all spice, cinnamon and cayenne
Pizza
- 1 recipe Easy Pizza Crust
- Or Any of my Glutenfree Crust
- 15 oz (425.24 g) can Chickpeas washed and drained or about 1.5 cups cooked
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) 1/2 tsp salt depending on if the chickpeas were salted
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) onion powder
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) garlic powder
- 1 tsp oil
- Sliced tomatoes
- Sliced onion
- 1 recipe Tahini garlic dressing
- Or my Tahini dill sauce
- cilantro or parsley
Instructions
- Mix the berbere spice mix really well. Preferably also add 1/8 tsp ground ajwain(carom seeds) and ground kalongi (nigella seeds). I know lots of spices :).
- Drain the chickpeas and transfer to a bowl. Add to the bowl, all of the berbere spice blend or 1 to 1.5 tbsp pre made blend. You can also use 1 to 1.5 tbsp pre made shawarma blend or garam masala
- Add garlic, onion, salt and olive oil to the chickpeas and toss well to coat. set aside. Make the tahini sauce, thin it out to preference.
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F / 220ºc. Shape the pizza crust. Spread the crust to about 14 inch size to make a thin crust large pizza. Brush with olive oil. Place sliced tomatoes on top. Add the spiced chickpeas in a single layer. (You can also add some greens or pepper as toppings).
- Place sliced onions on top. Drizzle some of the tahini garlic sauce. Bake for 18 minutes.
- Garnish with cilantro or parsley. Drizzle some more tahini sauce, slice and serve. You can also use vegan ranch, vegan mozzarella (add before baking) or other creamy dressing or just lemon juice to dress.
Notes
Nutrition
Sarah | Well and Full says
February 21, 2017 at 5:50 pmYou are the queen of Vegan Pizzas, Richa!! This look absolutely fabulous 🙂
Richa says
February 21, 2017 at 11:44 pmThanks Sarah!
Anne-Julie Caron says
February 23, 2017 at 5:56 amDo you use instant yeast or traditional yeast?
Anne-Julie Caron says
February 23, 2017 at 5:59 amThe smaller or bigger granules? Because my dough didn’t rise….Thanks!
Richa says
February 23, 2017 at 10:45 amI use active yeast small granules, but instant should work too. If the dough did not rise, then the yeast either died (water was too hot), or salt was added directly to the yeast mixture or the yeast was old. Did the yeast get frothy when you mixed it with warm water and 1 tbsp flour?
debbie says
February 26, 2017 at 11:59 amMade this Friday and it was killer! I used your crust recipe which is so wonderfully fast and has revolutionized my pizza nights. Made this exactly as written and loved it so much. Thanks!!
Richa says
February 26, 2017 at 12:35 pmAwesome! yes that crust is my go to crust.
Loretta Morandin says
February 28, 2017 at 6:08 pmMade this Pizza last night. It’s a Five Star affair! We all enjoyed it immensely.
I used white spelt flour and wholemeal wheat for the crust. Just had the leftovers for lunch (I made double batch) and it tasted even better! Easy crust, New go-to tahini dressing recipe and ab fab pizza combo. (I have to admit I’ve made berbere and Ethiopian food before and already knew I liked it so I was immediately drawn to this recipe).
Richa says
February 28, 2017 at 7:02 pmAwesome!!
Emily says
July 18, 2017 at 10:53 amMade this the other night. It was so flavorful! I think I will saute the chickpeas and make wraps to carry for lunch.
Richa says
July 18, 2017 at 11:45 amAwesome! wraps sound like a perfect meal.
Marilyne says
September 3, 2017 at 7:10 pmWOW! (I think that sums it up)
Wim says
November 27, 2017 at 1:56 pmCan you make more pizza recipes with tahini? I really like this pizza. And my non-vegan brother also liked it 🙂
Richa says
November 27, 2017 at 4:48 pmthats awesome!! You can put my cauliflower shawarma on the pizza too and dress with the tahini dressing before serving.
Wim says
November 28, 2017 at 6:50 amThanks for your reply. Pizza with cauliflower shawarma sounds great 🙂 And I like your recipes so much, that I have ordered both of your books 🙂
Richa says
November 28, 2017 at 10:41 amthats awesome! Thank you!
Dee says
February 22, 2018 at 12:18 pmWhich tahini dressing recipe did you use for this?
Richa says
February 22, 2018 at 12:39 pmoh darn the links disappeared, prob with some widget update. Here https://www.veganricha.com/2017/01/turmeric-lentil-fritters-tomato-bowl-tahini-dill-sauce.html , also added links on the widget again
Michelle says
June 12, 2018 at 7:02 amMade this last night for me and my fiance. We devoured the whole thing. The flavor combination was so oooo good!
Richa says
June 12, 2018 at 9:29 amyay!
Heloisa says
January 29, 2019 at 2:13 pmHow is this pizza gluten free? Did you make the crust, which for me is the most important thing on a vegan pizza. There is no recipe for the crust for this pizza with chickpeas. Did I miss something?
Richa says
January 29, 2019 at 4:42 pmhmm i had added thelink. seems like the widget update ate it up. Here are the gf crust options on the blog https://www.veganricha.com/?s=gluten+free+crust
there is a search box on top right that you can use as well.
Rebecca I Strauss says
June 17, 2019 at 5:04 pmMade this tonight – delicious! I used Trader Joe’s crust and caramelized shallots instead of the raw onions, and also added a ton of fresh dill to the tahini dill sauce. This one’s going in the permanent rotation.
Richa says
June 17, 2019 at 6:57 pmyay