Socca Pizza with Purple Hummus
Delicious socca pizza with purple hummus.Easy to make chickpea flour crust topped with creamy purple sweet potato hummus. Vegan and gluten-free.
Ingredients
Socca
- 1 cup chickpea flour
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- garlic powder optional
- salt to taste
Purple sweet potato hummus
- 1 cup roasted purple sweet potatoes peeled and roughly chopped
- 3 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon toasted sunflower seeds
- 1 tablespoon toasted pumpkin seeds
- 2 cloves garlic
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2-3 tablespoons olive oil
- salt to taste
Toppings
- roasted chickpeas
- green peas
- cashew or any other vegan cheese
- white sesame seeds
- chives
- basil leaves
Instructions
Roasted purple sweet potatoes
- Preheat oven to 200°C
- Wash your sweet potatoes thoroughly and pat them dry with a dishtowel.
- Place on a baking sheet and put them in the oven to bake for 30-45 minutes depending on size.
- Check at 30 minutes by inserting a fork into the center. They should be soft. If not, return to the oven and check again in 10 minutes. Let them cool down a bit before peeling.
Socca
- To make chickpea flour batter stir together the chickpea flour, turmeric, salt, garlic powder and water in a small bowl. Whisk together until blended completely making sure to eliminate all of the lumps. Cover with plastic wrap and let the mixture rest at room temperature for at least 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 200 °C. Line a 25 cm cake pan with baking paper and drizzle with a little bit of olive oil.
- Put the cake pan with olive oil into the oven. Once the oil gets really hot, pour the chickpea flour mixture into the pan and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and crispy.
Purple sweet potato hummus
- Put all the ingredients in a high-speed blender and process until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
Serving suggestion
- Once the socca is done, let it cool down a bit. Spread a layer of purple sweet potato hummus over the crust and top it with roasted chickpeas, green peas, chives, cashew or any other vegan cheese, white sesame seeds, basil leaves...
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