This buffalo chickpea pizza was waiting to be edited and posted. This Pizza is based on the Buffalo chikun Pizza from Pizza Pi in Seattle. The spicy tangy Buffalo sauce, a generous amount of white garlic sauce and celery ranch sauce and oh my, It is so good!
If you have the pizza dough ready, then this Pizza is a breeze to put together too. Mix up the buffalo sauce and chickpeas, make the blender sauces. Layer them all up, Bake and serve. Vegan, palm oil free and soy free! Easily gluten-free with my gf crusts. btw buffalo sauce has nothing to do with the animal Buffalo but everything to do with the location it was created at, Buffalo, NY.
More Pizzas from the blog including this Sriracha BBQ Tofu and Pepper jack Pizza, Jalapeno Popper Pie Deep Dish, Samosa Pizza, Mediterranean with almond feta, Deep Dish Lasagna Pizza and more here.
This Buffalo Chickpea Pizza! Make some today!
Reading this week.
This Vanity Fair Article on Sam Simpson. Diagnosed with terminal cancer two years ago, and given only months to live, Sam Simon is still alive and still racing to spend the fortune he made as co-creator of The Simpsons on causes he loves, whether he is rescuing grizzly bears (and chinchillas and elephants) or funding vegan food banks.
It only needed Ethan Brown to show up in the latest issue of Fast Company, to get hubbs very intrigued about trying out all the Beyond Meat Products.
Buffalo Chickpea Pizza with White Garlic Sauce and Celery Ranch Dressing
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Easy pizza dough
- or my white garlic crust
- or any of my gluten free crusts
For the Buffalo Sauce Chickpeas
- 3 Tbsp hot sauce
- 1.5 Tbsp Sriracha hot sauce
- 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 15 oz (425.24 g) can chickpeas or 1.5 cups cooked chickpeas
White Sauce Base
- 1/2 cup (118.29 g) ground cashew
- 3/4 cup (187.5 ml) almond milk
- 2 tbsp flour or 1 Tbsp arrowroot starch
- 2/3 tsp (0.67 tsp) salt
- 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- a very generous dash of black pepper
For the garlic sauce
- 2/3 (0.67 ) of the white sauce from above
- 4 cloves of roasted garlic or 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) onion powder
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) italian herb blend
- 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
Celery ranch sauce
- 1/3 (0.33 ) of the white sauce from above
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) ranch seasoning
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) celery seeds
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Make the pizza dough according to recipe. Use double the pizza dough recipe to make 2 pizzas.
- Make the Buffalo chickpeas: Mix everything under buffalo chickpeas. Mash a few chickpeas and let sit and marinate while you prep the sauce.
- Make the White sauce: Blend all the ingredients under white sauce base until well combined into a smooth sauce.
- Make the White Garlic sauce: Take about a 2/3 part of the white sauce from above and add garlic sauce ingredients. Mix well. Taste and adjust and mix or blend.
- Make the Celery Ranch: Add the ranch seasoning, celery and vinegar and mix and keep ready.
- Shape the pizza dough to a 10 inch rounds with thick edges so the sauce does not flow off the pizza during baking. Brush olive oil on it. Drizzle enough garlic sauce on the dough to coat. Add spinach or greens or other veggies of choice.
- Layer buffalo chickpeas on the greens. Drizzle some buffalo sauce from the marinade.
- Drizzle a generous amount of celery ranch. Add vegan mozzarella cheese shreds (optional). Try any of my cheeses
- Bake at pre-heated 425 degrees F / 220ºc for 14 minutes. Broil for a minute to crisp.
- Drizzle any leftover garlic sauce or celery ranch before serving.
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Notes
Nutrition
Claire
Hi Richa.. What hot sauce do you suggest for the 3 tbs hot sauce in the chickpeas?
We thoroughly enjoyed your easy vegan vege pizza.. Yum.
Richa
franks hot sauce
Arianna
Hi Richa! Just wanted to let you know that my husband and I have been making this pizza every Friday night for the past 4 years, in 3 different apartments + cities. We’ve memorized the steps and ingredients to the point that we can get it all prepped and in the oven in 12 minutes flat (dough prep notwithstanding). We even wanted it as an app at our wedding but the caterer wasn’t up to the task! Lol. To us, this recipe represents our love and comfort with one another. So, thank you for sharing.
Richa
So awesome!!
Britteny
Can’t wait to try this! Does the nutritional info include the crust?
Richa
it included just he flour, i updated it to include the basic pizza crust
Sapna
Hi Richa – My daughter is allergic to cashews (and walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, pistachios, pine nuts). Would almonds work as a substitute or is there another alternative that would work well? Thank you.
Richa
what about macadamia. you might need to use almond flour and a tbsp of flour so that the sauce is smooth enough
Lisa
I doubled this for my family and it was a winner! But I do have a question–I didn’t see a specific recipe titled “easy pizza crust” so I did the “basic pizza crust” which already seems to be a double recipe. I went ahead and doubled it anyway, and it made two large thick crusts that filled up two cookie sheets. It was great but wondering if this is the crust you intended and if I could make them the same size with half the recipe if we wanted a thinner crust?
Also, I was originally so bummed to only have one can of chickpeas left (since I was doubling), and ended up chopping up half of a large head of cauliflower, and crumbling a half a block of tofu. Used some thawed frozen spinach underneath that mixture. It was awesome! Seems like a fool-proof recipe.
Richa
awesome! yes you can use that one. Add some oil for a softer crust as that one is oilfree
Richa
the easy crust is easier for handling and easier to make thin or fat quickly
Yang
Great vegan pizza recipe! Replacing chickpeas with zucchini will make this pizza recipe ketogenic diet friendly, or even vegan-ketogenic diet friendly! Vegan-keto sounds complicated, but the health benefits offered are just too good. Vegans can do the ketogenic diet, and keto can go vegan.
Laurel
This was a hit! It was a bit spicy for the youngest teen but everyone loved it. With a giant salad on the side we were set for Super Bowl. Thank you!
Richa
awesome!
sabina
As an Italian, I can say that I love the idea of using chickpeas on top of a pizza and a cashew cream instead of tomato sauce.
The taste is very nice! I used spinach under the chickpeas and I didn’t have celery seeds so I used a tsp of celery leaves. I don’t know if the seeds have a similar taste.
Are celery seeds used in India? If yes, what are they called?
I find the chickpeas to be a bit too hot. I will reduce the amount of hotness but I loved the creaminess and taste of the garlic and ranch cream.
Thanks for sharing your recipes!
Becky Carroll
This was amazing! The whole family loved it. Thank you!
Richa
awesome!!
Debbie
This is my go to vegan pizza! Nothing comes close. I have never had a non vegan friend not be amazed by this pizza. Thanks for this amazing recipe and several of your other recipes that are staples at my house.
Richa
yay!!
Lindsay Long
Hi Richa, this is a go-to for my husband andI at least twice month. It has replaced our Friday night pizza order from a local restaurant (since we are now strict vegans).
Any thoughts or suggestions on a great side or salad to pair with it?
Richa
Any crunchy lettuce salad will work like vegan caesar or some ranch based so you can use up the celery ranch or a roasted veggie salad like my cajun roasted bowl with garlic sauce.
Lindsay
Perfect! Thank you!!!
Jenny
This was amazing. The flavor was great. I had a problem with my crust – I used your garlic pizza crust and it was a little doughy. Any suggestions on what I did wrong?
Richa
hmm, if the dough was too sticky, add more flour. Also roll it out thinner as it rises quite a bit and fatter dough will take longer to bake.
Liza
This looks so good!! Can’t wait ti try it. Thanks for that awesome recipe.
Kayla
I just made this for my boyfriend and I for dinner and it was amazing!!!! I think it might just be my new favorite recipe.
Richa
yay!
Jadyn
I just made this and I may say it is a little spicy. I like it like that though, hahah
Richa
you can use less of the hot sauce. When you transfer chickpeas to the crust, dont drizzle all of the sauce over the chickpeas. You can add more later to taste or heat preference.
jadyn
well do…next time though 🙂
Jadyn
in the oven now! 🙂
Karla Strauss
Can some or all of the oils be left out? I try to eat WFPB and try to stay away from as much oil as I can. I am really dying to try this!
Richa
yes. you can omit the oils from the buffalo sauce and the dressing. for oil free pizza dough see https://www.veganricha.com/recipe-pages/basic-vegan-pizza-dough-oil-free
Nancy
Hi. You used to have a BBQ apple and mushroom bacon pizza recipe. I made it several times and the whole family lives it. However I didn’t print it because I would just type it in Google and make it again. It all of the sudden disappeared from your site and I haven’t seen it since. I was wondering why it is no longer available and if it’s possible to get it from you one last ti.e so I can print it and enjoy it forever?? Thanks so much for all your recipes, yours are definitely a favourite!!
Richa
thats probably someone elses recipe 🙂
Nicholas Shaw
I think we’ve made this about 10 times over, and it’s YUM.
No doubt your new book will have plenty of tasty recipes also. I’ve pre-ordered it already, but will you be able to share a list of included recipes pre-launch? I can hardly wait! 🙂
Richa
Awesome! The TOC might be available on Amazon look inside. I’ll ask the publisher if I can share it pre-launch.
Melissa
Made this tonight but used Daiya ranch dressing because I didn’t have the ranch sauce ingredients.
Yummy!
Next time I will be sure to make the ranch and buy some greens!
Will def make again! Thanks!
Julia
Made this delicious pizza for dinner last night with my boyfriend! As I am allergic to nuts, we used silken tofu instead of cashews and it turned out great! We combined the sauces into one sauce for Sunday night quickness. We also added sauteed cauliflower as our vegetable. Served with sauteed broccoli rabe. It was amazing!! Thank you for the recipe 🙂
michele romaine
Richa! I made this yesterday and it was so so good. You are brilliant at baking and cooking. Thank you!
Mrs. FancyPanties
We really enjoyed this! I think you could just make all the dressing using the garlic sauce ingredients, minus the garlic, and then separate and add the garlic to 2/3. Also, we used store bought Crust and store bought vegan mozzarella. I don’t thnk the cheese is really necessary. Will try next time without, and add red onion, but this just joined our “regular rotation”. Thanks!!!!
Trish
We LOVE this recipe. The base is such a good go-to for a good white sauce. We double the amount of chickpeas and add sautéed spinach and red onion.
Richa
awesome!
Anna
I just made this tonight and it was wonderful! Thank you!
Anna
Made this tonight and I loved it. Since giving up meat, I sometimes miss buffalo wings the flavor combinations in this recipe, including the celery ranch, were spot on. I might even just mix up the buffalo chickpeas sometime .
Richa
Yay Awesome!! Yes, use them any way you like. in wraps and stuff.
Anna
I have some leftover white sauce. Any ideas for using it?
Richa
toss in some pasta and blanched or roasted veggies.
Diana
We made this tonight. One pizza with Tofurkey chicken and the other with chickpeas. Oh man. SO good. Had to tell you immediately – SO GOOD!!!!!!
Richa
Awesome!!!
Cherry
Holy Pizza! Eating it right now. Really good. Extra Sriracha on top. Phew! Yum!
Laura
My first ever vegan pizza!!! And it WAS THE BOMB!!! So freaking good and so easy to make. I ended up finding a vegan pre-made pizza crust at the store, and just using that, so the entire recipe took maybe 10-15 minutes to pull together. Fabulous! I am definitely making this again soon. I only recently went vegan and pizza has been by far my biggest craving! I didn’t miss meat at all went I went vegetarian, but pizza has been really hard to give up (that ooey gooey cheesy goodness!!!). So this was a wonderful, healthy substitute. Thanks Richa!!
Richa
i know right. Outside of the pizza dough, its just 15 mins and then wait to bake 🙂 So glad you loved it!
Madeline Dwight
For the ground cashews are they already ground before you measure the 1/2 cup? or do you measure out half a cup and then grind them up?
Richa
they are measured after. So they are 1/2 cup of powdered/ground. Take a loaded 1/2 cup raw cashews and blend them until mostly powdery. They will yield about 1/2 cup ground.
Madeline Dwight
ok thank you so much:) I’m making this tonight! I can’t wait to try it
Marcy
I made this recipe into calzones last night and it was amazingly delicious; my husband and I both loved it. Thank you for the wonderful ranch dressing mix, it is now my go-to to make vegan ranch dressing.
Richa
Awesome!!
Claire @ Stuffed Sweet Potato Monday
I agree about the ranch dressing! Made this pizza last night and didn’t use a packet of ranch seasoning but made my own with onion powder, garlic powder and parsley flakes. I wish I would have doubled the dressing to use it all week, it was so delicious. And paired really well with the tangy “buffalo” chickpeas. Best vegan pizza ever.
Laura
Hi Richa! This looks like such a great recipe, I can’t wait to try it! One question- are the ground cashews soaked first and then ground, or just regular raw cashews that have been ground up in a food processor? Thanks!
Richa
raw dry cashews that are ground. You can use soaked cashews(the same amount) and blend with the rest of the ingredients as well. the ground cashews reduce the prep time.
Max
Does olive oil affect the recipe much? I’d rather use canola, and less to no oil if possible.
Richa
use canola. olive oil in the sauce adds flavor.
Jeremiah
I’ve been trying out your recipes for a while now and I really appreciate your work here. This is an excellent recipe. The pizza holds up very well on its own without replacement cheese shreds. I’ll be reusing the garlic sauce recipe for other applications.
Richa
Thanks! yes the pizza doesnt need any cheese shreds.
Tori
These look wonderful! Can’t wait to try each one! Do you have a favorite ranch seasoning…either purchased or homemade recipe? Thank you!
Richa
Hi Tori,
I just added a ranch seasoning recipe here https://www.veganricha.com/recipe-pages/dry-ranch-mix-recipe
You can also buy some online. I sometimes get a mix from worldspice.com
Tabitha
I made this for dinner tonight and it was one of the yummiest dinners ever. The leftover celery ranch sauce was really good for dipping carrots in too, which was an awesome discovery for me since my dairy allergy has left me missing carrots and ranch dressing very much!
For anyone who is wondering about making this with cauliflower pizza crust, this recipe totally works fine on it. You just need to eat it with a fork since cauliflower is softer than regular crust, and you will have enough sauce leftover for another pizza since it will end up soggy if you use it all.
Richa
Awesome!!
Kathy
I have made this with wheat crust and love the dish but my son is coming for a visit and doesn’t eat any grain and I would love to make this for him with a cauliflower crust. Do you have a favorite cauliflower crust recipe that you could recommend? Thank you.
Richa
Hi Kathy, Cauliflower crust might not be able to support the heavy toppings in this pizza. How about a chickpea flour crust. https://www.veganricha.com/2015/09/gluten-free-yeast-free-vegan-pizza-crust-recipe.html use more chickpea flour instead of the 2 tbsp rice flour. This crust is sturdy and will hold up the toppings.
Karyn
Hi! I pinned this recipe a while ago and am finally going to do my first attempt this week. I am a new/slow cook, so I am going to split the steps into a few days. I’m going to try your white garlic crust. What are your thoughts on making the dough a day early? Should I let it raise before refrigerating it overnight? Does it need to warm up after refrigeration/before cooking? What about freezing the dough for future use?
Thanks a lot, I’ll let you know how it goes!
Richa
Awesome!! Yes you can store any pizza dough in the fridge or freezer. Follow the instructions here https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-freeze-pizza-dough-178431
Karyn
Awesome, thanks! For this round I did end up just deciding to do the pizza in one day. (Once I realized the dough rises for 1.5 hours, I felt like that gave me the time to make the sauces, etc.) So I am doing that tonight. I will definitely make use of your dough freezing guide in the future, though. Thanks again!
Richa
Great! You dont need to let it rise for that long. Keep the dough near the oven and 30 minute rise time is ok. I usually make the dough. Do some chopping prepping, shape into a crust, some more sauce prep while the crust rises a bit and then start layering.
Karyn
Oh, I’m glad I checked back one last time before I tried the pizza! I tried it and it was a success!
Thanks so much for this recipe! I am a beginner cook, and it’s so exciting and encouraging to have food turn out as delicious as this did. This is one of my favorite things I’ve ever made!
I actually didn’t have the cashews for the white sauce so I substituted with almond meal and it still turned out great.
Thanks again! Yum yum yum!
Richa
Awesome!! try it with cashews next time. the sauce will be creamier and it will set on baking like a cheesy sauce!