4 Ingredient Camping Pizza Dough
That’s right. 4 ingredients (oh, and one of them is water). Imagine how much free beer/belaying/etc. you could get by offering pizza made from scratch to hungry adventure partners (let me tell you, it’s a lot. Making amazing pizza around campfires is pretty much how I make all my friends). This is hands down one of my all-time favorite plant-based camping recipes.
Making homemade pizza dough sounds intimidating at first, especially when you’re camping, but this recipe is stupid easy. And did I mention it’s vegan? Regardless of if you prefer to smother it with pepperoni or top it with kale, this vegan camping pizza dough uses simple ingredients and creates the perfect, crunchy/puffy base for any topping combination imaginable.
This camping pizza dough is more time consuming than other recipes (it’ll take you 20-40 mins to make the full pizza, depending on how fancy you make it), but it’s worth the time. This amazing plant-based camping recipe makes a great re-fuel meal after a high-energy day, a perfect celebratory dinner for birthdays on the road, and a great breakfast (and if you’re trying to say you’ve never eaten pizza for breakfast before, get out, because I know you’re lying). My go-to topping mix is to cook up a bunch of veggies (garlic, onion, bell pepper, mushrooms, and yellow squash is a great combo), and fill my pizza with some pasta sauce (more flavorful than pizza sauce), the veggie mix, and mozzarella cheese, but depending on what mix you choose, this pizza can pack some serious plant based protein as well (see additional notes for topping ideas).
This recipe makes enough dough for one 6-8 inch pizza (good for 1 moderately hungry person).
4 Ingredient Vegan Pizza Dough
Heaping 1/2 cup of flour
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1/4-1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Cup Water
Mix together flour, baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Slowly (seriously, slowly) add small amounts of water, mixing into flour mixture with hand. Continue adding water until dough is bound together in a ball and slightly sticky (you will have dough stuck on your hands, but if you roll the ball around in your hands for a bit, most pieces of dough should get pulled off your skin back to the main ball. That’s how you know you’ve got the perfect flour/water amount). Let the dough sit for 5 minutes. Take that time to let everyone at camp know how good this pizza is going to be. Secretly hope you don’t mess it up (you won’t, its really easy. Your dog could probably make it.). When the 5 minutes is up, flour a flat surface (cooler, cutting board, back of a camp plate, top of your car*), and lay out the dough. Rub some flour on a rolling pin (water bottles, thermoses, or wine bottles work great), and begin to roll out dough until it’s shaped somewhat like a 6-8 inch circle. Heat a non-stick pan (if not great at being non-stick, help your pan out by sprinkling a few drops of oil on it), and put dough in. As dough warms, you can use fingertips to help it fill the shape of the pan. Cook over medium heat for 3-5 minutes, until golden brown at the bottom. Flip over, add pizza sauce and desired toppings, and cook for another 5 minutes or until bottom is golden brown and cheese (if used) is melted (add 2 more minutes if you prefer crispier dough). Serve to friends and celebrate your successful venture of making homemade pizza dough (don’t forget to tell your friends it was way harder than it really is so you look extra cool).
Additional Notes/Tips:
Pre-cook all toppings before adding to pizza (even veggies). The exception to this is spinach, kale, or other leafy greens. They’ll cook perfectly if you cover the pizza pan with a lid for the last 5 minutes of cook time.
Want to up the nutrition on this? Use whole wheat flour and add a tablespoon of flax seeds to the dough. Top with a sprinkle of quinoa, roasted chickpeas, kale, and cheese (if desired). Bam! Plant based protein pizza!
Make this at the stovetop at home! It’s much cheaper than pre-made dough and free from preservatives and all that extra stuff on food labels that you don’t know how to pronounce. And it tastes way better than Dominoes.
*Don’t actually use your car, c/mon. That’s nasty. And, I don’t think dough is good for the paint (or the paint good for your stomach)